NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery and music, announced today that Marty Brodbeck has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer.

"Marty brings decades of experience as a capable hands-on technology leader and a strategic thinker," said Shutterstock's Founder and CEO, Jon Oringer. "As we prepare Shutterstock for its next phase of growth, Marty's expertise, leadership skills, and unparalleled enthusiasm make him the right person to lead our technology organization."

Brodbeck most recently served as Chief Technology Officer at Sterling Talent Solutions, an industry-leading employment background screening provider. At Sterling, he led a technology system overhaul, making the company cloud-enabled which allowed for better integration with other cloud-based systems. Brodbeck previously held leadership roles with several global businesses, including Merrill Lynch, Pearson, Pfizer, and Diageo.

In this role, Brodbeck oversees the product engineering team as it develops and implements products that deliver leading edge solutions for customers.

"Shutterstock's expansion into the workflow market and its increasing strength in the editorial space brings new technological challenges and opportunities," said Brodbeck. "I am very excited to get started with the team to enable Shutterstock to make even greater strides in the years to come."

Brodbeck has an MS in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology and a BA in Leadership Studies and Speech Communication from the University of Richmond.

About Shutterstock, Inc.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 160,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 100 million images and more than 5 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat a curated royalty-free music library; Rex Features, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media; and WebDAM, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.

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