Leon Silverman, President of Hollywood-based LaserPacific Media Corporation, joined Eastman Kodak when the company was acquired in 2003. In addition to his role at LaserPacific, he serves Kodak as the Director of Strategic Business Development, Entertainment Imaging Services and a Vice President of Entertainment Imaging. For the past 26 years, Silverman has helped introduce new technology to Hollywood. He played a key role in the establishment of LaserPacific’s Electronic Laboratory, which pioneered many of the tools and techniques that are now the standard for the electronic post production of film. In 1989, he was recognized for his contributions to the creation of the Electronic Laboratory when LaserPacific received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development.

He was also recognized in 1996 for his contributions to the development of LaserPacific’s SuperComputer assembly process, which was again the recipient of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development. Silverman spearheaded LaserPacific’s entry into MPEG digital compression in 1992 and created LaserPacific’s DVD Authoring and Encoding facility. He has also helped to establish LaserPacific’s pioneering efforts in 24P High Definition.

Silverman is currently focused on new digital post production methods and technology which will expand LaserPacific’s role in the motion picture community as well as Kodak’s role in the digital services business.

Silverman is the current President and a founder of the Hollywood Post Alliance. He is a Manager of the Hollywood section of The Society of Television and Motion Picture Engineers (SMPTE) where he also chairs its Education Committee. In November of 2003, he was named a Fellow of the Society.

He serves on the Board of the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California and is also a member of its Technical Advisory Board. He is an Associate Member of the American Society of Cinematographers, where he sits on their Technology Committee. Silverman has served as an Instructor at UCLA Extension where he taught Post Production for Film and Television as well as an instructor at the USC School of Cinema-Television.