Jupiter Images restructures worldwide creative team

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Jupiter Images restructures worldwide creative team

By Brent Phelps January 20, 2006

Jupiter Images has announced in an e-mail to all contributors that it has restructured the entire worldwide creative team. This kind of restructuring was made necessary due to the many recent acquisitions including ArtToday, Comstock, Thinkstock, Dynamic Graphics, PictureArts, GoodShoot, BananaStock and others. Today’s announced changes are intended to bring the existing creative groups together into one Jupiterimages team capable of quickly bringing to market images that compete with the best in the industry. The JI creative team stands at over 75 picture professionals worldwide and growing. Twelve collection directors lead the individual JI image collections, supported by production and trafficking staffs and by Image Operations, which includes keywording, scanning, retouching and distribution.

The team will be structured as follows:

Creative Team Leaders

Mark Berns, formerly Jupitermedia’s Chief Technology Officer, has been named Senior Vice President of Creative and Operations for Jupiterimages. Berns is a longtime Jupitermedia senior manager. Berns, together with Jeffrey Burke, Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and former CEO of PictureArts, lead the JI worldwide creative team.

Edie Tobias and Sal Siggia have both been promoted to Vice President, Creative Content, with responsibility for premium royalty-free and rights-managed collections. Patricia Vargas has been promoted to Senior Director, Creative Content, and manages our subscription collections. Lynn Martin becomes Vice President, Strategy and Creative Intelligence. Maria Kessler becomes Vice President, Creative Business Affairs.

Senior Leadership
Mark Berns
Senior VP, Creative and Operations

Jeffrey Burke
Senior VP, Product Strategy

West Coast Team
Edie Tobias, formerly president of Sharpshooters, director of photography at Corbis, and collection director for Brand X Pictures, is in the South Pasadena, Calif., office. Tobias oversees rights-managed collections Nonstock, FoodPix, Botanica and Photis, as well as RF collection Brand X Pictures.

Personnel on the west coast team:

Edie Tobias, VP, Creative Content
Lorraine Triolo, Collection Director, FoodPix
Amy Osburn, Collection Director, Nonstock
Lila Garnett, Collection Director, Botanica
Alisa Guttman, Collection Director, Brand X Pictures, (newly hired former managing editor at Corbis in Los Angeles)
Ellen Kasemeier-Herbert, Collection Director, Photis, (newly hired former head of art buying at Ignited Minds agency in Los Angeles)
Alison Armstrong, Director of Production,
Camille Evans, Creative Operations Manager,

East Coast Team
Sal Siggia, formerly Group Content Director for Dynamic Graphics, has 20 years’ experience in the stock industry. Based in New York, Siggia leads the teams responsible for royalty-free collections Creatas Images, Thinkstock Images, Comstock Images, Thinkstock Footage, Creatas Footage and Big Shot Media’s flash library. He also manages the recently launched RM retro image collection (re)view.

Leading in-house image production at the Jupiterimages/Comstock studio in Mountainside, NJ, is Comstock VP of Production & Graphics Ed Gronske.

Personnel on the east coast team:

Sal Siggia, VP, Creative Content
Lynn Eskenazi, Collection Director, Comstock
Mitzi Good, Collection Director, (re)view
Graham Smith, Collection Director & Cinematographer, Footage Collections
Ravi Aujla, Creative Production Mgr., Big Shot Media
Ed Gronske, VP of Production & Graphics
Nancy Ralph, Creative Operations Manager
TBD, Collection Director, Creatas & Thinkstock

European Team
A new VP of Creative Content position in Europe will be filled as soon a great candidate is found. Until that time, Sal Siggia is the interim VP responsible for BananaStock, IT Stock and Goodshoot.

Also on the European team:

Bill Holden, Collection Director, IT Stock

Subscription Team
Patricia Vargas, formerly of Hemera Images and ArtToday, is responsible for the world’s largest combined image subscription service from JI’s Tucson, AZ, office. Paddy directs the content teams for Photos.com, Ablestock.com, LiquidLibrary.com, Clipart.com, Print Media Service, Animation Factory and Photoobjects.net.

Personnel on the the subscription team:

Patricia Vargas, Senior Director of Creative Content,
Chris Thornburrow, Content Director, Photos.com & Ablestock.com Sebastien Poulin, Product Manager, PhotoObjects.net & OEM Licensing
Corey Smith, Content Director, LiquidLibrary.com & Print Media Service
Jim Mistic, Content Director, LiquidLibrary.com & Print Media Service
Janice Lodato, Product Manager, Clipart.com & Animations.com
Art Holden, Director, Animation Factory

Creative Strategy & Intelligence
Lynn Martin is a former VP at Image Bank and a veteran of the Aperture Foundation as well as Getty and Corbis. Lynn is based in South Pasadena. Her team tracks sales metrics, customer feedback and market research to support production and ensure an optimized and competitive product mix.

Lynn Martin, VP, Creative Strategy & Intelligence,
Keith Simonsen, Manager, Creative Analysis,

Creative Business Affairs
Maria Kessler manages image acquisitions and third party image partnerships from the New York office and has responsibility for photographer representation and production agreements. Maria previously worked for a number of years at the National Basketball Association, as well as image agency FPG.

Maria Kessler, VP, Creative Business Affairs
Don Bitzer, Image Partner Relations Manager
Jennifer Goodwill, Creative Business Affairs Manager