BlueBolt expands senior management team

Member News  |  27 April 2023

The independent London-based visual effects studio welcomes Tracy McCreary, Henry Badgett and Nic Birmingham onto its Board of Directors.

Nic Birmingham, Head of 3D, Tracy McCreary, Managing Director, and Henry Badgett, VFX Supervisor at BlueBolt

BlueBolt’s new Board of Directors is led by Tracy McCreary, who has served as Managing Director since 2020. Alongside Tracy are multi award-winning BlueBolt VFX Supervisor, Henry Badgett (Ridley Scott’s Napoleon; The Great) and Head of 3D, Nic Birmingham (The Last Kingdom; Ridley Scott’s Napoleon) who will both lead the company’s creative vision. Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor and Angela Barson, who co-founded BlueBolt in 2009, welcomed the three to the Board of Directors, and will step back from day-to-day operations, while remaining involved as Directors and shareholders. 

This is an incredibly exciting time for BlueBolt. We are delighted to welcome Tracy, Henry and Nic to the board. They are each long-standing, highly respected members of our team, who bring outstanding leadership and real energy to the table. They will do a brilliant job leading the company forward.

Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Co-Founder of BlueBolt

Nic, Henry and I are thrilled to join the BlueBolt board. We look forward to building upon Lucy and Angela’s amazing legacy of creating award-winning visual effects and nurturing an exceptional, close-knit team. Bluebolt has doubled in size since 2020, and we have a full slate of film and episodic projects lined up, so we couldn’t be more excited about the future of the studio.”

Tracy McCreary, Managing Director of BlueBolt

BlueBolt is currently in production on a roster of film and episodic projects including Robert Egger’s Nosferatu; Fast X (Universal); Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount); Cobra season 3 (Sky) and Pain Hustlers (Netflix). The studio has recently completed production on projects including Ridley Scott’s Napoleon; The Peripheral (Amazon); Seven Kings Must Die (Carnival Films/Netflix) and The Great season 3 (Hulu).

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