- Brian Nimens
- President
- Michael Bell
- Vice President
Brian Nimens, President and CEO of Sound Ideas, began the company as a recording studio in Toronto, Canada in 1978. Today, Sound Ideas is the world's largest publisher of professional sound effects, offering more than 200 distinct collections to broadcast, post-production and multimedia facilities around the globe.Series 1000, the very first sound effect library produced by Sound Ideas, was released on reel to reel tape in 1979. In association with Phillips, Sound Ideas published Series 1000 as the world's first compact disc sound effect library in 1985. The following year, Sound Ideas released Series 2000 - a 22 CD set that was the world's first fully digital sound effect library.A joint venture with Lucasfilm led to the 1990 release of the highly successful Lucasfilm Adventure Series Sound Effects Library. This marked the first time that well known sounds from a renowned motion picture studio were made available for commercial use.