MUMBAI: Sanborn Studios, which officially launched its Lakewood Ranch facility recently, has added a few veteran Hollywood film executives to its team.

Chief financial officer Alan Bailey has joined founder and chief executive Ken Sanborn as the head of the television and film production company.

Bailey maximised state production incentives while working at Paramount Pictures for 35 years. Since retiring from one of the world’s oldest and most successful film studios as senior vice president and treasurer in 2009, he has headed Moving Star Media.

The Los Angeles-based company’s services include independent motion picture and television script development, finance, production and distribution services, as well as marketing.

Bailey will work in Lakewood Ranch and in Los Angeles, where he plans to open a Sanborn Studios satellite office in the Century City district, home to numerous law firms and agencies with ties to the film, television and music industries.

Sanborn Studios also has named Dan Forman as senior vice president of programme development. Forman directed live news coverage in New York City for 30 years and created non-news programming such as the original Howard Stern TV show, according to the studio website.