Shaw Media’s Chris Harris has landed at Secret Location.

Harris, most recently head of social media for Shaw Media, joins the Toronto-based digital agency as VP of business development and strategy. Harris will work closely with supervising producer Noora Abu Eitah, whose role expands to include overall management operations of studio and projects and new business development, execution and deployment.

Secret Location is bolstering its executive team as the company readies for more growth, including continuing expansion into U.S. and international markets and  developing proprietary projects. The company most recently launched the website app for the James Spader-starring drama The Blacklist, which airs on Global in Canada and NBC  in the U.S.

Also part of the company’s growth strategy, longtime company producers CJ Hervey and Sabrina Saccoccio have been promoted to executive producers. Hervey and Saccoccio will work on business development and original productions in addition to leading the agency’s large-scale projects.

Elsewhere, sound mixer Christian Cooke has joined Deluxe Toronto. Cooke recently won an Emmy Award for his work on miniseries Hatfields and McCoys. Also a Genie and Gemini-award-winner, Cooke has an extensive list of film and TV credits including, recently, David Cronenberg features A Dangerous Method and Eastern Promises, and the series Durham County and Being Erica.

Deluxe Toronto’s latest hire reflects a long-term investment in the company’s sound department, as the company continues to upgrade its theatres with new technologies and workflows, said VP post-production operations Nick Ianelli.

The company is re-locating to a new post-production facility in King West, a 62,000-square-foot space equipped with five re-recording theatres, an ADR stage, a 4k DI colour grading stage for features and six suites for TV post-pro. The new space will also house a data centre to connect the Toronto location to Deluxe facilities in L.A., New York, Vancouver, Atlanta, London and Sydney, among other locations.

Current projects with work from Deluxe include Beauty and the Beast, The Vikings, Copper, Lost Girl and Nikita.

On the west coast, DHX Media has hired on Sarah Wall as director of production at its Vancouver studio.

Reporting to Kirsten Newlands, SVP production, also based in DHX’s Vancouver studio, Wall will oversee production on the studio’s animated series, which include Packages from Planet X, and the new 26×30 3D comedy series Dr. Dimensionpants, both currently in production.

Wall previously worked with the company on a freelance basis, with credits on Hasbro’s My Little Pony, Martha Speaks, and separately, on Lucasfilm Animation’s Clone Wars series.