People

AMS Neve welcomed Stuart Nevison and Douglas Graham to the board of directors. John Lawrence is the new chairman…SIA hired Sisouvanh Phommasinh as administrative assistant…Three specialists joined Spinitar’s new San Diego systems integration and installation group: account manager Steve Hollingsworth, systems sales engineer Ted Pallas and systems engineer Steve Hughes. Account manager Suzanne Maese will also work out of San Diego. Don Isbell is senior account manager in the Sacramento office. And Lance Lam is systems engineer in the South San Francisco office…Ray Sooley is the director of sales at American Fibertek Inc….Tributaries’ Eastern regional sales manager is Tom Brochard… Matt Hathaway, mix engineer, and Ted Cruz, musician/producer, are on board at Sound on Sound’s management team…Audio Visual Headquarters appointed Nicholas Voss as general manager of the Chicago Staging Division. Joe Long is the new general manager of the Orlando Staging Division…Jim Hurwitz is U.S. sales manager for the Western region at Telecast Fiber…French P.A. system manufacturer L-Acoustics, planning a move to a new factory location in June, has seen a number of personnel changes: Sandrine Fessard is now in charge of customer services; Pascale Danielou is working with Beatrice Mornet on the expanded sales staff; Paul Bauman is technical support manager, working with Stephane Gramondo; Julie Colonna joined the purchasing team; Herve Guillaume took on the title of managing director for all administrative and financial matters; chairman Christian Heil will now focus on global company strategy; Melanie Cerveaux has a new role in marketing, advertising, press information and general media; and Bruno Heil joined the company as Web master…Audio and voice technology solutions provider SRS Labs brought back Jim Lucas as director of sales for a new line of audio products…Gregg Musolf is the Northwest region technical sales manager at Digital Projection. He is based in San Jose, Calif….John Dawsey retired from Sylvania…Electrograph named Joseph Brugh marketing manager…Phil Thompson is senior vice president of engineering at GeoVideo Networks. The new supervisor at Full Discount Wholesalers is Shawn McLoughlin…Industry veteran Dave Rutz joined Klipsch as senior vice president of marketing and product development. Cris Pyle is the company’s director of marketing for all its branded products and business units…Porter Falcon is working as Belisle Acoustics Laboratories’ U.S. sales manager…Video accessory manufacturer Kramer Electronics promoted Dave Bright to president of its North American and Mexican operations…Cap Audio Professional Corp. is joined by Grammy-award-winning sound engineer Simaen Skolfield who will work as the professional product engineer for KS Pro Sound Digital P.A. and studio monitor systems…Paul Froula is the director of marketing, North America, at beyerdynamic…Crown Audio honored David Glass, field service specialist, with the “Technical Support Employee of the Year” award and Leslie Kruse, domestic sales agent, the “Sales Administration Employee of the Year” award…Sound Control Technologies announced that Craig Brown is Southeastern Region sales manager…A.F. Associates Inc. appointed Doug Butler to the position of director of engineering…AVW Engineering welcomed Ricardo Laurito, the new account executive in the Corporate Sales group. AVW has also hired Dustin Sparks to be national account manager, creative services…Mark Weisenberg earned a promotion to vice president of market development at Sonance… Patrick Woolcocks is a new member of Clear-Com Intercom Systems. Woolcocks is the director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Stanley Bryer also joined Clear-Com; he is the Northeast Regional sales manager… Audio-Technica named Steve Savanyu its market manager for installed sound… The Home Automation and Networking Association gave out a number of awards during this year’s Electronic House Expo. The Leadership award went to John Galante, VP of EH Events and Education Inc. The first Glenn Bostrom Visionary Award went to Glenn Bostrom himself for outstanding leadership in forming a trade association for the industry. HANA also announced its officers: president Duane Paulson, Interlogix Security and Life Safety Group; vice president David Nash, Intel; secretary David Epstein, Sound Solutions; treasurer Jay Mclellan, Home Automation Inc. The new members of HANA’s board of directors are Ian Hendler, Leviton Manufacturing Company; David Hill, Panja; Mike Issacs, SMART; Jeffrey Jerome, HSP; Kenneth Kerr, Home Controls Inc.; Bill Maronet, ETC Inc.; Kenneth Moyes, EH Publishing; Jerry Rooks, X-10 Pro; and Susan Whitehurst, Home Systems Magazine. Mackie Designs Inc. announced Greg Silsby as market manager for the worship markets; Jeff Taylor as market specialist; Wayne Newitt as Application Support Group specialist; and Ernie Langone as market manager… Bob Caniglia is the national manager of Snell and Wilcox Channel Partners…

Representatives

Nexo USA appointed Star Enterprises, Anaheim, CA, as its representative for Southern CA, with territorial responsibility in Las Vegas and Hawaii…Level Control Systems’ sales representative for the Pacific Rim and Latin America, appointed Production Audio Services, Melbourne, Australia, as the exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand…Sennheiser’s award for the most improved pro territory went to Taub Sales, Baltimore, Md. White Radio is the new distributor for Listen Products in Canada. Listen named Eakins/Bernstein and Associates its Representative of the Year for 2000.

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