WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—SMPTE has introduced the board officers who will lead the group in 2024 and the election of six regional governors. They began serving their phrases at the start of January.Three SMPTE officers are persevering with their service, every for a further two-year time period from Jan 1, 2024, to Dec 31, 2025. The re-elected officers embrace requirements vice chairman Sally Hattori, finance vice chairman Paul Stechly, and membership vice chairman Rose Lockwood. They will proceed to serve alongside present board officers president Renard T. Jenkins, government vice chairman Richard Welsh, schooling director Michael Zink, secretary Lisa Hobbs, and previous president Hans Hoffmann.”It’s an honor to serve SMPTE once more,” mentioned Lockwood. “Serving SMPTE in any capability means supporting an excellent trigger, however appearing as a vice chairman for the group exhibits that SMPTE members belief me too. I’ll honor that belief and do what I can for our Society.””We are thrilled about these election outcomes,” mentioned SMPTE government director David Grindle. “Our members belief each one in every of these people, and we anticipate great issues from them. Together, 2024 and 2025 will see us proceed to supply worth to our members near dwelling and across the globe.”In addition to the officers, six regional governors have been elected by the Society to serve two-year phrases in 2024-2025.These embrace the next regional governors, re-elected to proceed their service:Asia-Pacific Region. Michael Day, Telstra Australia.EMEA, Central & South America Region. Dagmar Driesnack, Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG.USA – Hollywood Region. Kylee Peña, Adobe.USA – Southern Region. Frank Torbert, WKMG-TV.Also elected have been two newcomers to the SMPTE Board:Canada Region. Tony Meerakker, Meer Tech Systems.USA – Western Region. Cassidy Phillips, swXtch.io.The full itemizing of the SMPTE Board of Governors could be discovered at Board of Governors | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
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