Getty Images Appoints Susan Smith Ellis As Chief Marketing Officer

NEW YORK, July 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Getty Images Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein today announced the appointment of Susan Smith Ellis as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the global digital media company.

"Susan brings an extraordinary track record of global marketing and business success to Getty Images and I am thrilled to welcome her to my leadership team," Klein said. "Getty Images is the unmatched global leader in visual communications and has led every major innovation in the industry, and Susan is a perfect fit to help drive our market-leading business toward even greater success."

Smith Ellis is an accomplished marketing and advertising leader and most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer of Morgan Stanley. Last year, Fast Company named her as one of the "Ten Most Generous Marketing Geniuses." Smith Ellis is the former Chief Executive Officer of Product (RED), the global marketing company founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver to work with the world's most iconic brands and organizations to raise funds to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Prior to (RED), Smith Ellis was an Executive Vice President of the Omnicom Group of Companies. She previously served as Executive Vice President at BBDO, where she worked with Fortune 100 brands and incubated Atmosphere, BBDO's digital agency.

"Getty Images is a unique creative enterprise that operates at the intersection of great business, great brand and great beauty," Smith Ellis said. "I have always dreamed of working for a company like Getty Images and I am fortunate to have this opportunity to help move the world with pictures."

Smith Ellis serves on the board of directors of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the advisory board of Sandy Hook Promise. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

Smith Ellis will join the company in September and will be based in its New York City office.

About Getty Images

Getty Images is the world's leader in visual communication, with over 170 million assets available through its premium content site www.gettyimages.com and its leading stock content site www.istock.com. With its advanced search and image recognition technology, Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and content creators help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and online media. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.  For company news and announcements, visit press.gettyimages.com, and for the stories, innovation and inspiration behind our content, visit InFocus http://infocus.gettyimages.com/. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gettyimages and Twitter at https://twitter.com/GettyImages. 

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