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AMG Visuals Entertainment Division Taps Duane Farley As EVP Operations

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  • (1888PressRelease) June 29, 2017 - A few weeks into the job, AMG Chairman Mark Berry has made his first important executive hire, bringing in Duane Farley as EVP of Administration and Operations for AMG Visuals. Duane Farley was one of Mark Berry's leading lieutenants at AMG as EVP. Duane Farley oversaw AMG's connections with its affiliates internationally.

    "I’ve known Mark for several years and anticipate working together with him at AMG Visuals, and everyone at AMG, at a time of outstanding media growth industry wide." Duane Farley said.

    Mark S. Berry, AMG Chairman just made this statement in an internal memo.

    Good afternoon everyone,

    I'm pleased to announce that Duane Farley will soon be joining AMG Visuals as Executive Vice President of Administration and Operations, effective immediately, reporting to me.

    Duane will work directly with me on coordination of AMG’s day-to-day operations as well as the development and implementation of AMG Visuals film and television business strategies, corporately and within our lines of business.

    I know Duane well from our time together at AMG corporate, and other stops along the way. He is a terrific executive with broad experience and insight not just in music and film, but in the entertainment space overall. An entrepreneur by trade, and with over 10 years of experience in the industry, Duane has worked with some of the biggest businesses and artists in the entertainment space, and has held leadership roles in distribution, business affairs, creative and other critical business functions.

    Duane most recently served as EVP, Broadcast Distribution, at AMG Corporate. There he oversaw relationships with artists, master owners, managers, programming departments, and sales organizations for all AMG company-affiliated relationships, and drove extensive growth over a three-year period. Earlier in his career, as a booking agent, Duane represented and advised talent and professional athletes, and oversaw business affairs for his own production company.

    Please join me in welcoming Duane to his new position.

    MARK BERRY
    Chairman - AMG

    About Mark S. Berry & AMG:
    AMG is a leading Toronto-based entertainment & media company with an unparalleled client list of artists and content creators across film, television, music and digital media. Led by an experienced and innovative management team, AMG was formed in 1998 by international record producer, engineer & mixer Mark S. Berry and operates under his leadership as Chairman. Berry, whose extensive production, engineering & re-mixing talents has earned him 36 international gold & platinum records for such notable Grammy & Juno nominated musical icons as, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Yes, Boy George, Billy Idol, Kool & The Gang, Cameo, Carly Simon, Joan Jett & many, many more. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in NYC, LA, Hong Kong, Seoul & Beijing.

    Since its founding, AMG Visuals has executive produced, financed or distributed several movies, including Drake: Homecoming and the upcoming Jeff Healey Band documentary; and has almost an equal amount in development, under production, or completed but not yet released.

    Through its partner companies, including award-winning global creative music supervision agency AttackTrax, AMG also provides clients with unique music advertising, music brand integration and marketing opportunities across traditional, social media, mobile, film, television and gaming platforms. Already the owner of an extensive music publishing catalogue in affiliation with BMG Music, AMG's mission is to target potential acquisitions in the music, film & television industries ranging from independent record labels, artists, writers, DVD, feature length films, extreme sports content to purchases in the music publishing sector. AMG's focus is music distribution through its deal with Universal Music Group Distribution, the insertions of music into international feature film & television, as well as the development of reality based and documentary television programming.

    About AttackTrax:
    AttackTrax is one of the world's leading providers of 100% pre-cleared production music in all media. AttackTrax is committed to quality and offers 10,000+ tracks of music in all genres from world renowned music publishing catalogues. Previous AttackTrax insertions have included Making of The Matrix Reloaded, Coach Carter, Urban Legend, Harvard Man, Dawsons Creek, Roswell, MTV, Viacom, VH1 and many more including major sports programs internationally. The attacktrax.com website has been designed as a state-of-the-art, automated, online customer experience and decision engine that functions on all platforms and complements an already world-class AttackTrax brand.

    For more information, please visit:
    www.theamgcorp.com
    www.attacktrax.com

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