The Team
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Founder and C.E.O.Pierre's career spans all photography fields. He started 20 years ago as a staff photographer for a french magazine then after teaching, he moved on to create his agency, PPCM representing amongst others Time-Life, UPPA, Retna, and many newspapers, like Los Angeles Times. In 2008, he left his job as Director of Development at VU to launch WorldAssignment.
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VP Sales & MarketingPierre-Julien joined WA after post-graduating in January 2010, bringing with him online marketing techniques and a knowledge of modern communications. His business background, combined with experiences in varied industries such as motion pictures (Magnolia Pictures) or TV (RDF Group) give him a singular insight into marketing development. He has lived in Beijing, London, Miami and New York. He is now back in Paris.
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Head of WorldAssignment USAKelli Reed Grant, based in New York City, is the Director of PixWays Inc whose services include PixPalace and PixPush. Before joining PixWays, she was the Director of Photo Operations and Senior Photo Editor for Newsweek Magazine. Since june 2010, PixWays Inc. offers WorldAssignment Service on the North American territories.
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Anthony Kleva Operations Manager joined PixPalace in 2008 after working at Newsweek for 32 years. During his tenure at Newsweek he was a Photo Librarian, Photo Reasearcher, Photo Editor and Photo Systems Manager dealing with technical and quality aspects of photo production.
Gilles Prunevielle
Webmaster at Creativ'LinkGilles started to design websites in 1997, an era when HTML 1 was king. He has worked in small as well as large companies in various business fields. His experience is extensive as he has evolved with technology and the new web spirit. His passion for photography makes him the perfect webmaster for WA.
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USA Sales RepresentativeJemal Creary has over 16 years of photography sales experience from agencies such as JupiterImages, Corbis and Getty, which has continued as the US Sales Representative for PixPalace. Because of his professional experience, he understands all facets of the photography industry and the creative needs of the client without sacrificing the integrity of the photographer.
Thomas Raupach
German Sales RepresentativeThomas started in Hamburg 25 years ago as a photojournalist and travel photographer, then became manager of argus-photoagency. He moved to the publishing world as Head of Syndication of Jahreszeitenverlag. For the past 10 years, he has freelanced as a consultant in media workflow optimization, editing and marketing.
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Italian Sales RepresentativeAlberto joined WA in January 2010 bringing to the table over 10 years of commercial and marketing experience having worked in strategic marketing and business development for large corporations in both mature and emerging markets. In the past Alberto also worked as free-lance journalist and photographer for Compagnia Editoriale, one of the largest editor in the sport news arena in ITALY.
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Spanish Sales RepresentativeBefore joining WA in april, Olivia worked as an Account manager, focused on editorial and advertising clients, in image banks such as Photononstop and Cover Jupiterimages. She has a Bachelor in Advertising & Public Relations (UCM), and a Master degree in Photography (Efti School).