London-based digital cinema company Arts Alliance Media has appointed Andrew Stucker as business development consultant in North America. Stucker will be based in Los Angeles and will focus on offering AAM’s digital cinema software solutions to exhibitors across the US and Canada. He reports to AAM’s commercial director Eric Stevens.
Stucker comes to AAM from roles at Sony Digital Cinema and Barco Digital Cinema. At the former he was responsible for the launch of Sony’s 4K digital cinema projection systems and sales to several leading U.S. exhibitors, as well as being Sony’s representative to the Digital Cinema Initiative and at Barco Digital Cinema he managed multi-million dollar digital conversion programs and built relations with industry individuals and groups.
Stucker said, “Having worked in digital cinema for many years, I had been impressed with AAM’s expertise and success in working with exhibitors around the world, and so am delighted to be joining them as they extend their software reach into North America. AAM’s software suite is superb quality and really powerful, but behind a simple easy to use interface which really helps exhibitors realize the benefits of digital cinema. I’m looking forward to getting out there and showing it to people.”
Stevens said,“I’m excited to bring Andrew on board. Cinema software is entering the next phase with enterprise circuit management, NOC tools, centralized KDM and trailer management, and holistic advertising management. AAM has solutions for all of these areas and more and looks forward to rolling them out across North America with Andrew’s help.”
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