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Kovler started in the entertainment industry at a young age, supporting various products both as a freelance technician and most recently, running the service department for UK company Lightfactor for two years.

"I am excited about joining the team and strengthening the support in Europe and the rest of the world for HES," says Kovler. "I look forward to working closely with both the office in Austin and with customers on the ground ensuring that the trust and reliability of the HES brand continues at the highest possible standards."

Bill Morris, executive vice president of HES, says: "W

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Dempster has a lifelong electronics passion and his AV career journey plays testimony to this. After four years with Sony (UK) professional and broadcast division he joined Marcom Systems as technical general manager and progressed to become technical director. Dempster went on to spread his wings as a Freelance AV consultant, providing systems design and project management, to a wide range of blue chip companies for 13 years.

Paul Hutton, managing director at Blitz comments, "We have gained a fantastic reputation in this market with most of our existing business coming through referrals. We have a unique position in the market as a company that can provide permanent installa

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"Gary's experience is unique in that he has worked closely within the MI, corporate, house of worship, recording and live sound markets," says Thomas Hansen, VP sales, Bosch Communications Systems - Americas. "More than 25 years of entertainment technology experience - along with a solid background in global sales management and brand management - will make him a great asset. Gary will team with Jeff Taylor (Dynacord product manager, Americas) to provide a dynamic force for the Dynacord brand and products in the Americas."

Most recently, Pace held a sales and marketing position with LSI, a lighting and rigging production company specialising in corporate events, press events and trade shows. He also spent more than nine years as the global sales and market

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Commenting on the continuing potential for sound and vision integrators in the region, Hickman said, "The boom in hotel build and future tourism attractions shows no sign of letting up - new projects are being announced on an almost daily basis. As a result, the professional sound, light, music, audio visual and systems integration industries are expected to quadruple in the next three years as a result of opportunities in both the commercial and residential sectors."

(Jim Evans)

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Malcolm Burlow, managing director, says Hartley brings a wealth of knowledge to the company, having been within the sound and light industry for many years.

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Veteran of nearly two decades in the motion picture and television lighting support industry, Edwards comes to PRG from Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, NY, where he served for three years as vice president of operations. Before that, he was with Paramount Pictures for 10 years, as executive director of PPSI, Paramount's lighting rental company in New York and Los Angeles.

"Brian will be a great asset to PRG and we're very glad to have him with us," said Schenk. "In addition to his great experience in our industry, he brings us outstanding management

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2007 has been Summit's busiest year to date, with highlights including being appointed as house riggers for the newly opened O2 Arena in June. This alone prompted an immediate need for additional experienced staff.

At Summit Frost will be dealing with a selection of key projects and working alongside existing account handlers Jon Bray, Chris Walker and Jay Call.

Jon Bray comments: "We're naturally delighted at having someone of Simon's calibre onboard, and look forward to a great working relationship."

(Jim Evans)

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"We are absolutely delighted to announce that Bill is joining us." says group managing director Ian McCarthy. "This is the first appointment we've made since the companies merged in March this year and Bill will assume all sales and marketing responsibilities for the group."

Bill Woods, a highly respected veteran of the pro audio industry, has been living with his family in the USA for the past three years and for some of that time, he worked on a freelance basis representing Quested. Later he returned to live sound, working for Ashly Audio to help them establish Camco in the US Market.

McCarthy continues, 'Having known Bill for many years, I knew that the skills and professionalism he offers are exactly what we would

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Two "local guys" who have worked in Nashville for many years were hired as new sales project managers. Mike Brack has worked in television, video production and sales since 1986, while J. Andy Flatt has worked in the lighting business since 1987.

(Jim Evans)

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Ravenhill's primary goal in locating to the US in 2005 was to place increased focus on America's influential television and theatre markets, along with the growing House of Worship market. He also lent invaluable support through a period of personnel changes at Martin US, says the company.

"I thoroughly enjoyed the two years that I spent in the US organisation," Ravenhill commented. "I not only learnt a great deal about the US market and its way of doing business, which was one of my main goals, but I made many friends along the way."

(Jim Evans)

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Zhang joins Community after receiving dual Masters in Acoustic Studies and Recording/Production at the prestigious Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Sumoro also holds a Masters in Acoustics from Peabody and a BA in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College. Sumoro is a talented jazz pianist with a strong academic background in psychoacoustics, architectural acoustics and system design.

(Jim Evans)

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Perry's primary focus is providing in-depth technical support for all EAW Commercial products, in addition to assisting with the entire EAW line. He comes to EAW from Loud Technologies support and service, and as an active sound system operator and musician, he also brings a great deal of relevant real-world experience to his new position. Based in Woodinville, Washington, Perry adds additional hours to the company's US support basis and is fluent in Spanish.

Walker is responsible for service requests and return issues, as well as providing technical su

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Burnett has made the move from the company's Cambridge branch where he has been working for the last two years; and will be concentrating on the West End and touring theatre business.

(Jim Evans)

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Browne has more than 20 years of lighting industry experience and comes to Martin UK from a specification sales director position at Zumtobel Lighting UK, where he focused on specification sales to architects and electrical designers the past 13 years.

"I have enjoyed building up a strong and competent sales team at Zumtobel UK, but am now ready for a new challenge at Martin," Browne stated. "I am looking forward to a somewhat different market that has a huge potential, building on a very sound and successful structure already established in the UK. The MD position is the next logical step for me and I look forward to focusing my motivation and drive in order to make it a success."

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Peter Beare, managing director at Forward Vision said: "Darren's appointment give us the additional expertise to take an already excellent reputation for providing high quality products to new heights."

(Jim Evans)

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This follows two exceptionally busy years and an increasing amount of projects now utilising E//T//C UK's video capabilities for their building, monumental, son et lumière and commercial projection requirements, says the company.

Porter has just graduated from Rose Bruford College in Kent, and his area of expertise is digital media servers.

E//T//C UK's Ross Ashton says: "Its great to have Richard onboard - he's enthusiastic, quick to learn and brings a fresh outlook and plenty of creative and technical ideas to the melting pot. We're anticipating an expansion in the video elements of our work as more equipment is constantly coming on line to help produce large projections cost effectively. It makes total sense to invest in more people with skills

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"I am thrilled that these two successful and high-profile church lighting experts have joined Wybron to support our focus in this vertical market," said Larry Turner, CEO of Wybron. "With Terry and John, Wybron is already improving its role of providing churches with the best possible lighting fixtures and retrofit products that benefit the emotional process of worshiping."

(Jim Evans)

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The Silver Medal Award recognises the considerable impact Meyer's innovative loudspeaker designs have had on the industry, starting in the late 1960s with his Glyph loudspeaker and continuing through the 2006 release of the M'elodie ultracompact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. The Silver Medal Award has been presented to a long string of audio pioneers such as John Mullin, Robert Moog, Ray Dolby, and James A. (Andy) Moorer.

The award is not the first honor bestowed on Meyer by AES: in 1985 he was named a Fellow of the AES. Mey

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Paolo Dozzo, sales manager for the Vitec Staging Division - Tomcat UK's parent company, commented, "Remo is experienced in sales, marketing, customer support and communications, all of which have built him a lot of respect within the industry. We are pleased to have Remo on the Tomcat team."

(Jim Evans)

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Terry Hardin joined Ableton in August as the new senior account manager. He will help increase US distribution for the company's music production software, Live 6 and Live 6 LE.

"I have been a fan and a Live user for a number of years, and I am amazed by the advances that have been made with Live 6," says Hardin. "Live is the single most musical and intuitive music production software available."

Hardin is based in Santa Cruz, California, and will be working closely with the teams in Ableton's New York and Berlin offices, including inside sales support coordinators Sam Walker and Cindy O'Shea in New York.

Working closely with Hardin are two Ableton product specialists, Huston

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Craig Buckley managing director of RW Salt and Richard's business partner since 2004 comments, "Richard will be sadly missed by all at RW Salt Communications. He was a supreme business and financial manager but most importantly he was decent, kind, honest and the very best friend anyone could hope for, I personally could not have asked for a better mentor and we will continue to develop our company with the same high levels of quality and integrity that Richard stood for.

"We extend our deepest sympathy to Richards family and friends at this exceptionally sad time."

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Fausto Incerti has been appointed general manager of RCF SpA. Incerti has held the position of sales director since the company's renaissance in 2003. Speaking of the appointment, Incerti said: "I feel privileged to undertake this new responsibility at RCF. The company has shown tremendous growth over the past years and we all look forward to continuing moving RCF forward."

Taking over Incerti's position as sales director will be Alberto Ruozzi. Ruozzi, who has worked at RCF in the past, said: "It's great to be back working at RCF, I look forward to the job ahead of keeping RCF in the forefront of the audio industry."

(Jim Evans)

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"By improving the launch process as well as the product training and educational aspects, we will strengthen our position in the marketplace," said Brian Friborg, president at Martin US. "With so many new products on the horizon, we have a definite need to introduce them properly and educate not only our staff, but our customers. I have full confidence that Michael, with his strong product knowledge and te

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