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October 27, 2005
Panel Party
By Pat Hunt
Friday October 21st
Mid October brought about a busy week for Stock Photography professionals. Representatives jumped from the PACA meeting to Picture House and Photo Plus. But, nothing topped the elegant party hosted by Jackie Lissy Brustein Photo Director of the Bill SMITH STUDIO, a major design force in the world of children’s books. Jackie graciously sponsored the get together of over eighty-five guests in honor of an eight-person panel and moderator, all in town for a seminar the next morning at the yearly New York Photo Plus, in the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The Panel reads like “Who’s Who in Stock Photography:
James Alexander - Director of Adobe Images
James West - CEO of Alamy
Paul Banwell - Director of Photographer and Filmmaker Relations of Getty Images
Patrick Donehue – Vice President, Photographer Relations of Corbis
Alexis Scott - CEO of Workbook Stock
Brad Kuhns – Co-founder of IPNstock.com
Christina Vaughan – CEO of Image Source
John Lund - Stock Photographer, Author and Lecturer
Moderator - Pat Hunt, V.P. of Corporate Relations at Index Stock Imagery,
Author and Lecturer.
Organized and moderated by Pat Hunt, VP of Corporate Relations at Index (www.indexstock.com), and Managing Editor of MacTribe (www.mactribe.com), the three hour session was titled: “What Stock Business Model is Right for You?”
At the party, this important group of business ‘movers and shakers’ was joined by other top leaders in the industry, including Duncan Grossart - Co-CEO of Image Source, Jeffrey Burke and Patty Vargas - Senior Executives of Jupiter Media, Bahar Gidwani - CEO of Index Stock Imagery, Dan Russelman - President of Index Stock Imagery, Jon Oringer - CEO of Shutterstock, Sonia Wasco - Director of Grant Heilman Stock, Bruce Livingstone - CEO of iStockphoto, Betsy Reid - Director of SAA, Cathy Sachs - Director of ASPP, Brian Wilcox - Director of Photography at SuperStock, Rick Becker-Leckrone - Director of Blend Images, Carol Heller - Director of Sales at Getty Images, Susan Jones - Director of Sales for Agefotostock, Lindsey Nicholson -Managing Editor for Wire ImageStock, Randy Taylor - CEO of StockPhotoFinder, and Jeff Roberts,Publisher of PDN, to name only a few.
Luminaries from the publishing industry included Steven Diamond of Scholastic, Richard Fox of Wiley Publishing, Karen Sutorius of Newbridge Publishing, Jill Waterman of PDN, Annette Melvin of Random House, Michael Baynes of Thomson Learning, John Clarke and Towny Dickinson of MacMillan Publishing, Justin Nisbet of Workman Publishing and Dan Robillard of MacTribe.
Important faces in the RF industry were Tom Grill, Jack Hollingsworth, Mark Anderson, Jose Pelaez, and Mark Hunt. All enjoyed wining and dining in a relaxed atmosphere, and trading industry insights to background music. It was the perfect way to launch the best-attended seminar at Photo Plus this year.
Posted by Pat at October 27, 2005 05:54 PM
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