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American Films Names Geoff Lee President and CEO
American Films Names Geoff Lee President and CEO.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n NEW BOSTON, N.H., Nov. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global data and risk mitigation senior executive Geoff C. Lee was appointed president and chief executive officer of the technology driven intellectual property protection and production company American Films, Inc. (OTC: AMFL), it was announced today. “Geoff brings a lot of muscle to the already innovative work American Films is doing to address two pressing needs in the creative industries – copyright piracy and film production,” said Craig Campbell, the company’s treasurer and chief financial officer. “With our bold moves into the digital space, Geoff is the right person at the right time to lead us.” Lee has spent more than 30 years working with technology risk mitigation, most recently as a senior director at global employment screening firms GoodHire and Inflection Risk Solutions. He was the longtime president and interim chief executive of LocatePLUS, a publicly traded company that leverages public records data. Its \"self-verification\" offering was adopted by global partners including Careerbuilder.com while Fortune 100 financial firms, federal, state, and local government agencies such as the Office of the Inspector General, the Social Security Administration leveraged their national investigative databases. A veteran, Lee served in the United States Army Reserves 414th Prisoner of War Processing Company and continues to support our service members as a Religious Affairs NCO in the California State Guard. “American Films has done groundbreaking work in thwarting copyright infringement and global intellectual property piracy, and has made such a huge commitment to digital technology, including the upcoming security tokenization of its shares,” Lee said. “My lifetime of work in domestic and international data security and compliance could not be a better fit as I hit the ground running,” Lee said. A resident of Southern California, Lee is part of American sneaker royalty. His father, Gordon C. Lee, founded the iconic shoe maker Vans with partner Paul Van Doren in the early 1960s. The company was sold in 1988 and is now part of the Vanity Fair Corporation, which also owns North Face, Timberland, and Dickies. “My dad started making and selling what were then called deck shoes out of a van at swap meets i...