LA Tech ‘Moves’: Crafty Apes Gains New CTO, Trubify Taps Bain & Company Founding Partner

Decerry Donato

Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.

LA Tech ‘Moves’: Crafty Apes Gains New CTO, Trubify Taps Bain & Company Founding Partner
LA Tech ‘Moves’:

“Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile here—and if you're looking for ways to supercharge your recruiting efforts, find out more about Interchange.LA's white-glove recruiting service by emailing Sharmineh O’Farrill Lewis (sharmineh@dot.la). Please send job changes and personnel moves to moves@dot.la.

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Crafty Apes, a full-service visual effects company, appointed Sean Looper as chief technology officer. Looper held roles at Amazon Web Services, DreamWorks Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks where he led VFX-focused technology initiatives.

Founding partner of Bain and Company L.A., Mark Curcio, joined music technology platform Trubify as capital and entertainment advisor. Curcio was also the former CEO and founder of Artisan Entertainment which was acquired by Lionsgate.

ASM Global, a facility management and venue services company promoted Alex Merchán from executive vice president of marketing to chief marketing officer.

Kleinfelder welcomed Erik Soderquist as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Soderquist served as the CEO of Tepa, LLC.

CBS Entertainment named Amy Reisenbach its president. Prior to this role, Reisenbach served as the company’s senior vice president of current programs.

Transportation technology company Skyryse hired former Delta Airlines pilot Bill Warlick as head of flight test operations.

Green Boy Group, a global supplier of plant-based NON-GMO and organic food ingredients, added former Interfood CEO Jeroen van den Heuvel as the new managing director.

Health care technology company Cue Health tapped Josh Ghaim and Sachin Jain to its board of directors. Previously, Ghaim served as the CTO at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, while Jain was the CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health.

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Mullen Automotive Pays Nearly $20 Million to Settle Lawsuit with Qiantu

David Shultz

David Shultz reports on clean technology and electric vehicles, among other industries, for dot.LA. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, Nautilus and many other publications.

Mullen Automotive Pays Nearly $20 Million to Settle Lawsuit with Qiantu
Image Courtesy of Mullen Automotive

Like a zombie from the grave, Mullen Automotive’s electric sports car grift lives once more. Earlier this week, the Southern Californian company announced that it had resolved its contract disputes with Chinese manufacturer Qiantu and would begin to “re-design” and “re-engineer” the DragonFLY K50 platform for sale in the United States.

On the surface (or if you just read the press release) this would seem to be excellent news for the bedraggled Californian EV startup. But the saga of the Mullen/Qiantu partnership is long, and in the context of their shared history, the deal’s terms look considerably less favorable for Mullen.

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“Millions of Dollars Completely Wasted”: Without Neuromarketing, Tech Firms’ Ads Get Lost in the Noise

Samson Amore

Samson Amore is a reporter for dot.LA. He holds a degree in journalism from Emerson College and previously covered technology and entertainment for TheWrap and reported on the SoCal startup scene for the Los Angeles Business Journal. Send tips or pitches to samsonamore@dot.la and find him on Twitter @Samsonamore.

“Millions of Dollars Completely Wasted”: Without Neuromarketing, Tech Firms’ Ads Get Lost in the Noise

At Super Bowl LVII, advertisers paid at least $7 million for 30–second ad spots, and even more if they didn’t have a favorable relationship with Fox. But the pricey commercials didn’t persuade everyone.

A recent report from advertising agency Kern and neuroscience marketing research outfit SalesBrain is attempting to answer that question using facial recognition and eye-tracking software.

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