Maruvada joins company as product specialist.

Codex Digital, the leading developer of digital media recorders and media management systems for film and television production, has opened a new office in Hollywood to serve as its base in the United States.
The new office will serve as Codex’s operations, training and marketing hub in North America. It is located in the Cahuenga Live/Work Lofts complex, which is becoming a center for media production. It is located at 3450 Cahuenga Boulevard West, Los Angeles, CA 90068.

“We’ve seen an enormous increase in interest in file-based workflows and a commensurate increase in the demand for our products,” said Codex Digital Vice President for Market Development Sarah Priestnall. “This new facility will enable us to expand our training programs and to best support our customers as our industry continues to go through this enormous transition.”

Codex has also opened a new design and manufacturing facility in Leamington Spa, England, enabling them to significantly ramp up production of all products.

As part of the staffing for the Hollywood office, Codex has hired Bobby Maruvada as U.S. Product Specialist. Maruvada will work with producers, cinematographers, editors and others involved in production and post production in designing and implementing digital workflows using Codex technology.

Maruvada brings more than 15 years of experience as a director, cinematographer, editor, colorist and visual effects artist, and is the founder of Core Group, a Santa Monica post production company.

“My role is to help producers and post houses in planning their workflows, and to provide whatever support they need as their projects move through production,” Maruvada said. “I want to help people understand how the consequences of the technology decisions they make at the outset can affect each subsequent phase of production through post.”

Maruvada founded Core Group in 1992 and through it he has provided production and post production support for commercials, documentaries and corporate media. For the past several years, Maruvada has also served as a digital intermediate colorist on more than a dozen independent films. He holds a master’s degree in computer engineering from Boston University.

For more information: www.codexdigital.com.