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Image Source announces new Director of Strategy

Sep 09. 2010
08:09
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Image Source, the world’s leading producer of premium royalty free stock imagery, motion and Cross-Media content, announces the immediate appointment of Lewis Blackwell as Director of Strategy.

Lewis brings with him a wealth of experience from the film and photography industries, as well as magazine and book publishing. A former executive board member of Getty Images, Lewis led brand and product development, advised on acquisitions and also developed the film side of the business during his ten year tenure at Getty.

Most recently he has acted as adviser to private equity investors, non-profits and other innovative and entrepreneurial businesses and his career has spanned both customer and producer, having created award-winning new media communications, celebrated books and prestigious exhibitions, as well as being the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Creative Review magazine for many years. His recently published Photowisdom was one of PDN’s books of the year as well as being recommended by The Guardian, and his Life & Love of Trees was a bestseller in the United States after acclaim from Ellen DeGeneres.

Christina Vaughan, Image Source Founder and Chief Executive Officer comments "Image Source takes great pride in its position at the premium end of the market so it makes sense for us to be working with one of the leading creative minds in our industry. Lewis is someone who understands the power of a compelling and engaging brand and we are pleased to have him join us on the Image Source adventure."

Lewis will be working from the London Headquarters of Image Source, based in Soho. He says of his new position "I am excited to be getting involved at this stage of the company’s development. Image Source has a great opportunity to surprise and delight its customers and artists in new ways and I will be dedicating myself to make that happen."

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About Image Source
Image Source is the world’s leading producer of premium royalty free stock imagery, motion and Cross-Media content. Headquartered in London, UK, with a regional office in New York, the company also supplies imagery through over 200 partners worldwide. This strong international sales network enabled the company to win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade Category in 2005. Image Source has also been shortlisted by The Sunday Times Best Employers Guide 2008 as ‘One to Watch’ and is in The Guardian’s 2008 book of Britain’s Top Employers. The company is accredited with ISO 9001 and achieved a place on the 2008 Media Momentum Top 50, a list of the fastest growing digital media companies in the UK. Founder & CEO, Christina Vaughan, also recently won Entrepreneur of the Year at the Lloyds TSB sponsored Asian Women of Achievement Awards held in London. www.imagesource.com is currently the only platform in the industry able to showcase matched still images and motion clip content displayed side-by-side for any given keyword search result, enabling creative art buyers to fulfil an integrated multimedia campaign brief in one simple purchase path.