Summary
Clarence Gregory “Austin” Burbridge has worked as a professional editor for twenty years. He has had significant experience as a manager and as an entrepreneur, in online media, technology, and manufacturing.
His experiences—as an editor at Apple’s creative agency; founder of an online publication; app developer; and manufacturing-business executive—have given him insight into what it takes to win in today’s media environment; a grasp of what’s important in business; and—most of all—mastery of the people skills to lead a team in challenging conditions.
Business communications
Clarence is executive editor at Culture Is Our Business.
Philanthropy
He is an editorial consultant to Emerson Collective, the eleemosynary change organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs.
Marketing
He was copy chief at TBWA\Media Arts Lab, the worldwide, creative agency dedicated to Apple, from August, 2015, through October, 2023.
Professional associations
Clarence is a member of ACES: The Society for Editing.
Journalism
Editor, CINEMA MINIMA
As executive editor of CINEMA MINIMA—the international news service for movie makers that he founded in 1997—Clarence supervised thirty international correspondents, in Africa, Asia, Europe, India, North America, and South America. Working as accredited press, they covered film markets and film festivals around the world—filing reports in a 24-hour-a-day, on line news room.
In 2005, CINEMA MINIMA was the most popular movie-maker website in the world—attracting more daily visitors than IndieWire, Variety, or Hollywood Reporter—according to Amazon Alexa ranking.
Innovations
- The world’s first podcast for movie makers was published by CINEMA MINIMA in 2005.
- The world’s first filmmaker-news app for iPhone was launched by CINEMA MINIMA in the summer of 2007.
- “Sustainable Cinema,” CINEMA MINIMA’s education initiative, began in 2007.
- “Far from Hollywood,” a season of mixers for filmmakers, in Paris, France, and in Mumbai, India, was launched by CINEMA MINIMA in 2007.
- Technology
Business-application development
From 1993 to 2000, Clarence developed business software applications for networks of Macintosh and other computers.
Apple small-business marketing
From 1991 to 1993, as a member of Apple’s consultant program, Clarence worked with Apple marketing executives to make marketing presentations to Apple’s business customers at Apple’s Houston Market Center. He tutored Apple’s dealer sales representatives on how to sell networks of Macintosh computers to businesses.
Business administration
As chief executive officer of a manufacturer of industrial marking equipment from 1982 to 1992, Clarence shepherded the business, and its score of employees, out of the catastrophe of Texas’ devastating 1982–1987 recession. While restoring the company to profitability, he made five hundred successive payrolls—the accomplishment of which he is most proud.
Languages
Clarence is a native speaker of American English. He has a working knowledge of metropolitan French.
Education
Clarence was educated at St. John’s School, Rice University Media Center (motion-picture production), Brown University (B.A. concentrations in art, and in semiotics), and the University of Chicago (graduate study in art history).
Background
Clarence Gregory Burbridge was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He lives in Southern California.
Interests and hobbies
Clarence has worked as a commercial letterpress operator, and as a commerical typographer. He appreciates print and other work on paper. He is an amateur of intaglio, philately, and ephemera.
He is a fan of classical music (favorite: Haffner Serenade), and grand opera (favorite: Don Giovanni). His favorite sport (as a spectator) is polo. An avid cyclist, he rides thirty kilometers a day—weather permitting.
Heritage
The notorious Old West gunfighter—and celebrated New York gambler—William Thomas “Billy” Burbridge (1854–1912), and Billy’s daughter, Hazel, the countess of Montméja (1886–1960), are among Clarence’s ancestors.
The Burbridges emigrated from England to Virginia in the seventeenth century.
Among Clarence’s father’s ancestors were the Phillips family, who were among the Winthrop party that emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.
Among Clarence’s mother’s ancestors were Gabriel Maupin and his wife, French Huguenot refugees who emigrated in 1700 from the Netherlands to Virginia. His mother’s mother, Virginia Consuela Balán Maupin, emigrated in 1912 from the Philippines to Louisiana.
