National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) veteran Dave McGrouther is joining Australia’s DAMsmart, the audiovisual digitisation agency, to head up their Film Services Division.

Dave is a leading film preservation expert with 14 years at the NFSA, most recently in an executive role as Film Curator, with extensive knowledge of archiving, preservation, conservation and repair techniques for all film formats.

Dave’s appointment further strengthens DAMsmart’s specialist audiovisual digitisation and preservation services.

DAMsmart provides a hosted Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to assist in the management of digitised collections.