American Films, Inc. announced that Bradley Safalow has been named its board chair. Founder and chief executive officer of the independent research firm PAA Research LLC, Safalow has a record of generating action-oriented investment ideas with high absolute return potential. Safalow graduated with a bachelor?s degree in economics from the University of Virginia, where he also competed on the men?s swimming and diving team. Mr. Safalow began his career on Wall Street in the leveraged finance group at JPMorgan, after which he worked as a senior equity research analyst at the bank covering the business and education services sectors. Prior to founding PAA Research, Mr. Safalow joined RiverEdge Capital, a global long/short equity hedge fund, where he focused on small/mid cap stocks and short idea generation.