VP Preservation
Pro-TEK
Richard Utley - bio Vice President PRO-TEK Media Preservation Services Richard (Rick) Utley is the divisional VP of PRO-TEK Preservation Services, a Kodak company. He is Kodak’s primary liaison with studio asset protection managers and other moving image content owners in addition to supervising the PRO-TEK preservation vaults, inspection center and restoration management services located in Burbank, California. Utley began his career in the motion picture industry in 1966 at Metrocolor Laboratories on the MGM Studio lot. He spent 24 years at Metrocolor and was superintendent of lab operations from 1983 to 1989. Utley was manager of lab operations for Technicolor, Inc., in Los Angeles from 1989 until he joined Kodak in May of 1993 to develop a new preservation service business for the long term keeping of motion picture studio assets. A member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) since 1993 serving on their board of directors as Treasurer for six years. He is also an active member of the Association of Cinema Video Laboratories (ACVL) and SMPTE.