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Cinnafilm Expands Executive Team with Chief Financial Officer Hire

[December 22, 2017]

Cinnafilm Expands Executive Team with Chief Financial Officer Hire

Cinnafilm, a global leader in innovative video optimization solutions for television, film and multimedia delivery, announces the addition of Kelly Baker as Chief Financial Officer.

Baker brings a vast range of executive financial experience to Cinnafilm, including development of multi-year financial/operational plans for companies such as XM Satellite Radio, Anteon, and most recently, MIOX. Over the course of his career he has driven significant company growth, directing over $2.5 billion in capital raises.

"Kelly's experience in developing and executing financial strategies that correlate with the needs of the business are second to none," said Lance Maurer, CEO of Cinnafilm. "The timing was perfect to add the financial acumen of Kelly to our executive team as we embark on new ways to revolutionize access to and capabilities of our video processing and optimization solutions."

"It's a real privilege to join Lance and the entire team at Cinnafilm," said Baker. "The company has accomplishedmuch, especially the development of an incredible software package for a booming video marketplace. I look forward to being a part of Cinnafilm's outstanding growth opportunity, including their new cloud platform as a service, PixelStrings."

Cinnafilm continues to build an impressive team with recent talent acquisitions in customer support, marketing and engineering as well. This group is dedicated to supporting the rapidly expanding customer base that is discovering quality and speed can co-exist when processing and optimizing video content.

About Cinnafilm

Cinnafilm, Inc. is a global leader in innovative video optimization solutions for television, film, and multimedia delivery. Harnessing the unmatched compute power of modern graphics cards, Cinnafilm's patented, 100% file-based software solutions are true game changers in the field of high-quality image processing. Cinnafilm software is in use today at many of the world's premier, forward-thinking studios and networks, solving a wide variety of very complex imaging problems including, but not limited to, restoration and bitrate optimization, noise removal and texture-matching for digital cinema and film, and automatic retiming and standards conversions within real-time transcode workflows.