The Visible Results Society (VES) has introduced its 2023 Board of Administrators Officers. The Officers, who comprise the VES Board Govt Committee, had been elected on the January 2023 Board assembly. They embrace Lisa Cooke, who was re-elected Board Chair, and is the primary girl to carry this position for the reason that Society’s inception.
“It’s my privilege to proceed to Chair this international society of excellent artists and innovators,” stated Cooke. “The esteemed management on our Board deliver ardour, numerous expertise and massive dedication to volunteer service to our group. I’m enthusiastic about what we are able to obtain, working collectively, to develop the Society and take our worldwide membership to new heights.”
“The Society is so lucky to have this 12 months’s Govt Committee members guiding our mission-driven work,” stated VES Govt Director Nancy Ward. “Individually, they’ve every devoted numerous hours in service to VES, and collectively, they’ve a deep understanding of the group and an unwavering dedication to serve the membership. I sit up for working with this 12 months’s Govt Committee to evolve the Society.”
The 2023 Officers of the VES Board of Administrators are:
- Chair: Lisa Cooke
- 1st Vice Chair: Susan O’Neal
- 2nd Vice Chair: David H. Tanaka, VES
- Secretary: Rita Cahill
- Treasurer: Jeffrey A. Okun, VES
Lisa Cooke, Chair — A VFX producer at Tippett Studio and an govt producer at Tippett Productions, Cooke brings her expertise as an animation/VFX producer, story guide, screenwriter and actor. Firmly believing that efficient science communication is important to our world, earlier than becoming a member of Tippett, she based Inexperienced Ray Media, the place she produced animation and VFX to create scientific, medical and environmental media for a broad viewers.
Prior to now, Cooke has labored for leisure shoppers together with Lucasfilm, Fox, Common and Nickelodeon Movies, and within the VFX and animation trade for firms like Pixar, Glasgow-based Digital Animations Group and as senior producer at Reardon Studios.
Cooke served six years on the VES Bay Space Board of Managers Govt Committee earlier than becoming a member of the VES Board of Administrators, the place she has served as Second Vice Chair, First Vice Chair, Co-Chair of the Archives Initiative and is honored to be presently serving her third time period as Chair.
Susan O’Neal, 1st Vice Chair — Susan O’Neal joined the VES within the late Nineteen Nineties and has served as a member of its international Board of Administrators in a number of roles, together with service on the Govt Committee in 2016 as Treasurer, and as 2nd Vice Chair in 2022. For a few years, she served because the Chair for the legacy international Schooling Committee and presently co-chairs the Membership Committee. She has been instrumental within the work to develop the Society by main the biannual membership assessment and approval course of.
In 2019, O’Neal was honored with the VES Founders Award for meritorious service to the Society.O’Neal is presently a recruiter for BLT Recruiting, Inc. and has labored as an Operations Supervisor at The Mill, Operations Director at Escape Studios in Los Angeles, and as an Account Supervisor at Facet Results Software program, Inc. She began her profession in visible results at Digital Area in 1993, the place she labored in finance and operations earlier than turning to manufacturing.
David H. Tanaka, VES, 2nd Vice Chair — David H. Tanaka, VES is an editor, producer and inventive director with expertise starting from visible results and animation, to documentary and live-action function filmmaking. For 15 years he served at Industrial Gentle & Magic in VFX Manufacturing and VFX Editorial on movies together with Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and the Star Wars saga. He then went on to Pixar Animation Studios as a Particular Tasks Editor for 10 years, contributing to such productions as Vehicles, Ratatouille, WALL•E, Up, Toy Story 3 and Monsters College.
Tanaka presently holds a employees VFX editor place with Tippett Studio and serves as Adjunct Professor for the Academy of Artwork College, San Francisco, specializing in producing and modifying for animation and visible results manufacturing. In 2020, he alongside together with his spouse, Dorianne, co-founded Cinemabilities, a distant filmmaking course for sometimes and atypically growing college students, ages 10 to twenty.
Tanaka has served three phrases as Chair of the VES Bay Space Part, in addition to 2nd Vice Chair on the worldwide Board of Administrators in 2021. He’s a significant contributor to the VES Archives, Awards, Outreach and Work From Dwelling Committees, and in 2022 was honored with each VES Lifetime Member and VES Fellow distinctions.
Rita Cahill, Secretary — Rita Cahill is a global enterprise and advertising/PR guide and has labored with numerous U.S., Canadian, U.Okay., E.U. and Chinese language firms for visible results and animation tasks. Present and former shoppers embrace firms within the function movie, tv, VR and sport industries, in addition to authorities and academic entities. She can be a companion in MakeBelieve Leisure, a movie improvement firm and serves as govt producer on numerous worldwide tasks.
Beforehand, Cahill was the VP of Advertising for Cinesite the place she oversaw the advertising of 4 divisions of the pioneering digital studio’s companies. Previous to Cinesite, Cahill was a founding Board member of the Mill Valley Movie Competition/California Movie Institute and stays on the Institute’s Emeritus Board of Administrators. Cahill was additionally the Founding Marketing consultant on the formation and institution of the Singapore Worldwide Movie Competition.
That is Cahill’s eighth time period as Secretary. She additionally served as Chair or Co-Chair of the VES Summit for eight years. In 2021, Cahill was honored with the VES Lifetime Member distinction and the VES Founders Award.
Jeffrey A. Okun, VES, Treasurer — Jeffrey A. Okun, VES, is thought for creating ‘natural’ and invisible results, in addition to spectacular tent-pole visible results that mix seamlessly into the storytelling side of the mission. Okun has delivered wide-ranging results in award profitable movies comparable to The Final Samurai, Alpha, Blood Diamond, Stargate, Sphere, Pink Planet, Deep Blue Sea and The Final Starfighter and acclaimed tv applications comparable to Cosmos: Potential Worlds for Nationwide Geographic and Fox TV, The Finish Is Nye (NBCUniversal) and The Good Lord Chicken (Showtime).
Okun is a VES Fellow and recipient of the VES Founders Award. He created and co-edited, the VES Handbook of Visible Results, an award-winning reference guide protecting all facets of making visible results, methods and practices. He’s presently co-editing the VES Handbook of Digital Manufacturing, a whole information to digital manufacturing spanning makes use of, roles, methods and greatest practices, due out in Summer season 2023. He created the VES Awards and continues to provide the occasion for the twenty first 12 months.
As VES Board Chair for seven years, Okun fostered a world neighborhood, targeted consideration on bringing enterprise and inventive training to artists, amenities and studios and guided the Society to assist create a worldwide software program anti-pirating alliance with the US Authorities to make sure that all amenities have a good and degree enjoying area from which to bid. He additionally served as Chair of the Los Angeles Part of the VES for 2 years and has been a Board member on each the VES and the L.A. Part for a few years.
