AI expert Josh Pine appointed as Fractional CFO at The Kitchen

Veteran industry leader Josh Pine has joined The Kitchen as Fractional CFO following the recent retirement of its founding financial partner.

Completing a 3-year stint at XL8, the M & E industry’s first and most reknown AI localization platform, Josh was responsible for building the Company’s global commercial operations. XL8 is known for its proprietary AI machine translation engines, supplying AI produced captions and Machine Translations for the media and entertainment industry. As Chief Revenue Officer, Josh called upon The Kitchen as one of his first potential clients, forming an instantaneous relationship, whereby XL8’s advanced AI technology was skillfully integrated into The Kitchen’s time tested, traditional, high quality, workflows.

“Josh’s knowledge of the industry and understanding of the potential of AI’s future, and how The Kitchen can best utilize all that it has to offer, is extremely exciting. Josh and I hit it off immediately and now that he is onboard in this capacity, I have all the confidence in the world that he will greatly assist in bringing The Kitchen to the next level,” Ken Lorber, President/CEO explained. “Josh’s network is global, aligning perfectly with The Kitchen’s international reach,” Lorber continued. “By joining forces with our team, I am certain that Josh will guide us into the right direction as we digest and ingest where we are headed within the world of AI.”

“I’m happy to be bringing my years of experience, both as an M&E industry supplier and content distributor to The Kitchen. In this unique and supportive role, I am helping integrate cutting edge technology that will drive industry, leading cost saving efficiencies throughout the organization,” Josh Pine added. “The Kitchen has a strong global reputation and image, a firm foothold as a leader in language localization and content dubbing services and is well known for its people and their ode to old-fashioned customer service. I gravitated to Ken (Lorber) and Deeny (Kaplan) and the entire team immediately. It was a ‘no brainer’ to align myself with this fantastic 24-year-old operation!”