Tom Bell

Tom Bell is the Executive Director of Video and Photography at the University of Arizona, where he leads the university's visual media capability across video production, photography, and post-production. He oversees team operations, production workflows, and digital asset infrastructure in support of MarCom's brand and communications goals.

Tom brings more than a decade of experience building and running in-house multimedia programs at institutional scale. Most recently, he served as Post-Production Director at an award-winning video production agency, where he led a team delivering content across formats and built distributed workflow infrastructure for editors working across the globe. He is a practitioner as well as a leader, with a background that spans directing, camera, color grading, and editorial across commercials, documentaries, television, and institutional content. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Tom spent five years as Multimedia Manager at UCF, building central marketing's multimedia team and production operation from the ground up. Their work during that time supported recruitment, fundraising, research communications, and public affairs, and earned recognition including multiple Addy, Telly and UCDA Awards and a CASE Circle of Excellence.