2004-08-31. Today Imagestate announces the appointment of two seasoned executives to its management team. Jeffrey Shear joins the company as Chief Information Officer with responsibility for Technology, Media Management and Information Systems and David Harrigan joins the company as Chief Creative Officer with responsibility for the company's creative direction, image collection, editing and photographer relations.
"Imagestate is working very hard to realign and build its business in an industry that is now all digital and extremely competitive," said Leslie Hughes, Imagestate's CEO. "David and Jeff bring Imagestate the experience and vision that we need to be able to build and deliver visual media to a very broad and diverse marketplace."
Prior to Imagestate, Shear was VP Business Design and Operations at Bill Gate's Corbis Corp. where he had responsibility for business and systems integration as well as development of many of the company's client facing and sales systems. Prior to Corbis, Shear was Chief Information Officer at The Stock Market where he led the design and development of the company's client and photographer friendly image management, search and delivery systems Shear reports to Hughes and is based in the company's New York office.
Harrigan also joins Imagestate from Corbis where he served as Director of Commercial Photography, Europe, for two years and then as a consultant focused on client based image production in both EMEA and Asia Pacific. Prior to Corbis, Harrigan was Head of European Art at Getty Images. Harrigan also reports to Hughes and is based in the company's London office.
About Imagestate
Imagestate offers visual media to inspire and enhance communications for advertising, graphic design, publishing and the web. With contemporary, design-oriented photography and illustration covering people, lifestyle, sports, business, and travel, Imagestate offers the best in both rights managed and royalty free content. Imagestate content can be found and licensed at www.imagestate.com or by contacting one of its full service offices in New York and London. Imagestate content is also offered by representatives in more than 50 countries around the world.
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