The move, warmly welcomed by Martin Audio's parent company Loud Technologies, is seen as strategic succession planning, although current CEO and managing director David Bissett-Powell, who recommended the appointment, says he has no thoughts of standing down at present.
"Anthony has worked with me for many years and although he is a well qualified chartered accountant he has also become very commercial in his operation within the company. These balanced business skills mean that he can handle a great deal of the day to day responsibility and future direction of Martin Audio and, hopefully, allow me sufficient time to assist with other LOUD functions as well as continuing my focus on our distribution in China."
Anthony Taylor joined Martin Audio in February 1994 having spent his early years in accountancy at Deloitte & Touche. At Martin Audio he was quick to put his training in corporate finance to good use, helping to steer the company through the most prosperous period in its history, before becoming one of the successful managing team who led the MBO from parent company TC Electronic, in 2003.
Taylor says: "I have worked closely alongside David for a number of years and this appointment is an obvious way forward and reinforces our awareness of corporate responsibility."
(Jim Evans)
