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Thomas, who will be providing support to Martin dealers in the West Coast region from Martin's West Coast office in Simi Valley, California, has 10 years of industry experience with extensive knowledge in truss structures and theatrical motors.

Thomas comes to Martin from a sales position at World Show International, a prime fabric manufacturer for the entertainment Industry. Prior to that he worked for truss manufacturer Total Structures, where he held positions in production control and sales.

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Robinson joined AMG in 2002. "Academy Events is a forward thinking division of AMG, we create strong ties with local and national promoters and a close link with the bands and artists for a quality of service at our shows and events," says Robinson. "We are also concentrating on developing a strong event production department working with our client partners Carling, Virgin Mobile and Xfm, amongst other leading brands.

AMG also works closely with Arts Council England to develop initiatives and strategies that enable the public and commercial sectors to work together, for the benefit of unsigned talent, new and established

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According to Parker, "This is an exciting time for the university. Johnny Carson gifted over $9 million for the renovation and expansion of the theatre and film programmes. Of that, $1 million is set aside as an endowment specifically dedicated towards keeping film, lighting and sound technology current."

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CEO Christian Heil comments: "This double appointment directly reflects our current strategy. We have initiated a process of strengthening L-Acoustics' technical support on three levels."First, we wish to reinforce technical support to both end-users and independent sound designers (consultants and mixing engineers). Second, increase and fluidify the technical feedback from the field to R&D to improve product design. And last but not least, create a research group - a sort of 'educational think tank' to develop new approaches to teaching sound design and product implementation."

Alain Courieux boasts more than 30 year experience in activities ranging from recording studio and live sound engineering to

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Brian Divine, who previously served as market director for portable PA, has now transitioned into the role of market director for engineered sound/touring sound.

Andy Flint, formerly a business developer in the portable PA market, now moves into his new position as vertical market manager for portable PA.

Phil McPhee has taken on the title of vertical market manager, commercial sound. McPhee previously served on Crown's engineering team.

Lastly, new hire Kristin Howard has been appointed to the post of marketing coordinator.

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"Meyer Sound and its customers will both benefit greatly from Michael joining the company," says Meyer Sound director of marketing Rachel Archibald. "His extensive marketing experience, combined with his excellent language skills, make him the ideal person to communicate the values and philosophies of the company to the local markets in the region."

Bahr brings with him nearly 12 years of marketing experience within the musical instrument and automotive audio industries. He spent close to 10 year

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Andy Trott, president of The Soundcraft Studer Group says, "Bruno's experience spans over 35 years in the professional audio industry and he has been very successful in growing Studer's digital business. Now that we have completed the integration of our production, marketing and product development functions, it's time to complete our programme and unite these great marques under one sales team.

"We have incredibly exciting strategies for both brands to expand in the live, broadcast and recording sectors with working projects for a bra

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In less than a decade, Adamson Systems has grown from a "family run" business occupying a modest rented location, to a successful international brand manufacturing in its own 37,000sq.ft factory. The days of Brock Adamson and his son Jesse managing the company with the aid of only few office staff are becoming distant memory. Increased marketing and product support has resulted in the creation of more senior positions.

Adam MacGillivray, as sales and support and European liaison, is the main contact for new worldwide factory direct sales and handles support related matters with European support addition Jochen Sommer, who is currently supporting Linkin Park's Europ

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Peter West, Shuttlesound's new M.I. sales consultant in the south of England, has worked as a musician for ten years. One of his first jobs was as a sales administrator for Shuttlesound's parent company Bosch. More recently, he spent four years working for Shure's pro-audio division, as well as various other audio and AV specialist companies.

Taking up the role of M.I. sales consultant in the north of England, Tony Cooper has also earned his living as a musician, although his first introduction to the business came through his family, which owned several music shops. Tony has since spent more than 30 years in the pro-audio world - five y

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The awards are open to entrants actively involved in architecture, civil engineering, construction or quantity surveying. The Future Star Award is aimed at individuals aged between 21 and 30 who have demonstrated significant personal achievement and have the ability to be role models of the future.

Martin Lupton, head of BDP's lighting group says: "The key to Laura's success is her personality - she works collaboratively with all around her bringing out the best in others in a leadership style which is natural, sensitive and nurturing. She absolutely deserves this award and we are all extremely proud of her."

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"I have been following Bandit Lites for a number of years, and am thrilled with the opportunity to work for such an impressive company," says Draper.

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Wiedenbeck's 30-plus years in professional audio started at Harman Deutschland in the mid-seventies, and have included high-level positions at Studiosound + Music GmbH, Plus Audio, Lawo and Klein + Hummel. Wiedenbeck spent the last four years as an independent audio consultant with a particular focus on studio monitoring, stage control systems, and digital mixing consoles.

"Chris has experience in sales, marketing, customer support, engineering, and communications, all of which have built him a great reputation and earned him a lot of respect within the industry," says Meyer Sound Germany managing director Jim Sides. "We could not have found s

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Prior to joining Vari-Lite, Kibbe was the national sales manager for Rosco Laboratories. He has also served as a project consultant with Theatre Projects Consultants, as well as a regional sales manager for Strand Lighting.

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Sims brings with him over 25 years of lighting industry experience, his early years spent running his own lighting consultancy firm. After a 10 year run with Strand Lighting where he worked as architectural product manager, he became the regional specification sales manager for the Juno Lighting Group.

When not on the road, Sims, who started in the new position on 16 July, will work from a home office near Orange County, California while also spending time at Martin's West Coast office in Simi Valley.

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Amongst the new line up is Richard Rogers, who is promoted to operations director; Dave Watchorn also receives recognition for his contribution to the business with promotion to operations manager - assisted by a £150k investment in a new operating system, which will further enhance performance delivery, the company says.

The account handling department, headed by Andy Watterston as senior account director, has been organised into three groups, each supported by a Project Co-ordinator. This will ensure that each client is serviced by a team, rather than just one individual and will lead to enhanced c

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Barrow comes to the position from his previously held post as manager of new product development, and has long been instrumental in the development of many of Community's most successful products, including the iBOX, the new SONUS and VERIS lines and the redesigned WETSeries II.

"Community's products have always been based on solid engineering designs," says Barrow. "In my new position, I look forward to increasing our focus on solving problems for our customers, and on putting our 30-plus years of experience into creating well-engineered, well-designed and dependable products that our customers want and need."

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ISE is appointing three new members to its Board of Directors - Timothy Penn, managing director of AMX UK; Matt Teevan, international director of Da-Lite Screen Company; and Thierry Ollivier, sales manager of projectiondesign. The trio replace A C Ter Meulen, president of Mitsubishi Europe Benelux; Susanne Seidel, vice-president, Sennheiser, and John Forney, vice-president, Lutron, who have all just completed their terms of office.

Additionally, Ian Morrish has joined ISE as sales manager responsible for the UK, Benelux, Scandinavia and Latvia, as well as the residential sector of the US market. Morrish comes to ISE after spending eight years w

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"What makes NSCA great is having great members, and Nancy will reach out to these members and forge relationships. As a journalist, she'll expand NSCA's media relations programme and educate the public about the latest projects and news from our members."

Before arriving at NSCA, Owen worked at CNN Headline News in Atlanta, as a television reporter, freelance writer, publishing account representative, and as a director of community relations.

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Sykes comes to LSC with an extensive background and impressive employment history, including being part of the LSC team from 1988-1999 as a product development engineer. Whilst at LSC he co-designed the Axiom, which was honoured with an Australian Design Award in 1993. Adding to this, he was also responsible for the design of another 20 Stage Lighting products.

Most recently Trevor has been working with AAPL, a large multi national (Japanese parent) company in the automotive sector.

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Ruta will assume the administrative responsibilities of the general manager, and Gene Leitermann, who has assumed that role for the past four years, will relinquish the title. Leitermann will remain Director of Business Development and will continue to serve on the management team in that capacity. He is also a senior proje

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"I am looking forward to taking the UKCMA to its next phase," he says. "A key part of my role will be to encourage all reputable crowd management companies to join the UKCMA and adopt its best practices. By doing so they will be signing up to a professional standard recognised by and beyond the event industry.

"It is important for key member companies such as Safestyle, Special Events, Show and Event Security and Rocksteady to continue to set the standards in a unified approach."

He continues: "With the Olympic Games approaching in 2012 we must ensure that the UK'

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Deletic comes to LSC with global experience in software design, having worked at Kvaerner Oilfield Products in the UK and Pupin Holdings in the former Yugoslavia. Most recently he has been working with Australian Arrow as their software developerHe will be working as part of the EKO R&D team; developing new software and giving the EKO range more flexibility to further expand its use into the 'archi-tainment' marketplace, says the company.

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"I am delighted to have joined Klotz Digital, as it is a dynamic company well established in the radio broadcast market. Furthermore it offers a broad range of promising products and solutions with great potential to conquer the PA sector," says Bakker. "I will focus strongly on managing and developing Klotz Digital's business relations to fuel the company's further growth."

Bakker was previously with AKG Acoustics where he was fully responsible for sales business in Europe. Prior to that he was involved in sales, consulting, design and installation for high-performanc