A21/Superstock taps industry veterans to help guide company
A21/Superstock has hired several high-level employees recently with direct experience in the stock photo industry in an effort to round out its management team with seasoned players.
Stock industry veteran Ellen Boughn has joined A21 SuperStock as its VP, Content Strategy and Product Manager of Rights-Managed Content. Ms. Boughn, who founded AfterImage in 1976 and later sold that company to Tony Stone in 1992, most recently served as VP at Uppercut Images, the RM division of PunchStock. She has worked for other major stock photo companies, including Corbis, and served as an industry consultant. Ms. Boughn’s responsibilities will include recruiting new photographers and producing new imagery for both the RF and RM collections at Superstock.
SuperStock’s hiring of Ms. Boughn follows the recent addition of another key manager, Candice Crough as VP of Sales. Ms. Crough’s history in the stock photo industry began with Corbis in 1999 where she rose from Account Executive to East Coast Commercial Sales Manager. In 2004 she joined another Corbis alumn, Leslie Hughes, at ImageState where she held the post of World-Wide Director of Sales.
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I’m very pleased that Ellen Boughn has been hired by A21 for this important job. I’ve known Ellen since 1985 when she was the owner of Afterimage a very good agency based in LA. We started collaborating the same year and our collaboration ended when Ellen sold the company to Tony Stone. Since then our friendship has lasted and I see her and her wonderful husband Ed Smith as often as I can. Ed is an antique books dealer and a literature passionate and I share with him the same passion. Ellen still remembers the risotto with porcini which I cooked for her and her friends in her apartment in West LA.It’s outstanding that a person with the Ellen knowhow has not let out of the business how it’s happening to a lot of people who have sold their companies and haven’t been able to remain in this business. I’m pretty sure that A21 won’t regret to have hired Ellen who knows the business very well and she will show how her thirty years in the business mean something.I do hope to see Ellen very often in Jacksonville a place where there are wonderful golf courses and beautiful shores. See you Ellen.
Posted by: Pino Granata | March 21, 2006