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Germany - Hartley Peavey was bestowed with the 2010 MIPA Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award at the Musikmesse International Press Awards in Frankfurt, Germany, on 25 March. The award coincided with a significantly increased presence for Peavey at the 2010 MusikMesse thanks to their sponsorship of the Agora stage which was equipped with a full complement of audio gear from all of the Peavey Electronics brands, and a successful party on the Thursday evening of the show.

More than 100 magazines from all over the world voted in over 40 categories for the MIPA awards which were presen

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UK - Luke Jackson, the 2010 winner of TPI Magazine'sMy Generation award, has joined Production Resource Group.

Jackson has taken up a position on PRG's production technician team and will be working on the preparation and implementation of a wide range of lighting projects throughout Europe. Initially based at the group's Essential Lighting operation in South West London, Jackson and the production technician team will work across the group in the concert touring, theatre, television, live events and corporate markets PRG are active in.

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UK - DiGiCo has announced the appointment of new team member James 'JJ' Lawford, who takes up the position of UK sales executive and will provide additional support for its UK operation.

Lawford will work closely with DiGiCo's UK dealer network, helping to further strengthen commercial development in the UK market and provide a dedicated point of contact for both DiGiCo's UK dealers and its end-user customers.

"The DiGiCo team is already very strong," says marketing director, David Webster. "However, we have a real desire to provide the greatest possible level of supp

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USA - Martin US has confirmed the hiring of Jeff Washburn as new regional sales manager for Martin's Central US territory.

Washburn, a 15 year lighting industry veteran, brings with him a wealth of experience and a firmly rooted relationship network. He has previously worked for Barco/High End Systems and LED Source.

His responsibilities as regional sales manager include working directly with Martin Professional's reseller network, lighting/video designers and key industry influencers. He is based in Austin, Texas.

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USA - Renkus-Heinz has expanded its engineering staff with the appointment of Derrick Pierce to the position of staff loudspeaker engineer.

The California native returns to the state after more than a decade in design engineering and product development with loudspeaker manufacturers JL Audio in Florida. A designer of several award-winning products, Pierce has also held high-level engineering positions with Niles Audio and Menlo Scientific., and contributed to the development of several patents.

"I'm really pleased to be joining a company as forward-thinking as Renkus-Heinz,&qu

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Asia Pacific - QSC has strengthened its presence in the Asia Pacific market, recruiting two experienced audio professionals to help consolidate the company's market profile in the region.

With immediate effect, Sebastian Chong takes on the role of product specialist, Asia Pacific Region, while David Fuller joins the team as sales manager for the territory.

Before joining QSC as a product application specialist, Sebastian Chong worked as a technical sales manager with Architectural Audio in Singapore for six years, a company recognised as a leading distributor of installed DSP produc

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USA - Patrick Finn, a dealer project manager with J. R. Clancy, has passed the exam in the Entertainment Technician Certification Programme (ETCP) for Theatre Rigging. Finn is now an ETCP-certified rigging professional, the fourth on the Clancy staff to become certified.

The certification indicates expert proficiency in the use of counterweight, mechanical, and hydraulic systems installed in theatres. ETCP riggers also understand the health and safety issues involved in the use of theatre rigging, as well as Occupational Health and Safety Association (OSHA) requirements for the use, m

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UK - True to its longstanding tradition as a DJ-centric company, American DJ Europe has tapped a well-respected DJ to be the area sales manager of its southern UK sales district. The company named the Simon Fletcher to this position after an extensive search of possible candidates.

Fletcher will be responsible for looking after the sales of the American DJ family of products in his region. As part of his job, he will be visiting dealers on a regular basis and building relationships with them. He will also be interacting with the DJ community in the UK at shows and events, and soliciti

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France - L-Acoustics has appointed Marc Bénard to the newly-created role of technical support manager, amplified controllers. This new position reinforces the L-Acoustics technical support department which now is divided into three areas of expertise: fixed installation market, rental market, amplified controllers and LA Network Manager products.

Bénard joins the company with 10 years' experience in pro audio industry, working mainly in digital product management and technical support. His new role will be to educate and support touring and fixed installation clients in

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UK - Hawthorns has announced the addition of Nigel March to its business development team. Nigel has over 30 years' experience in the theatre and live events industry, specialising in AV programming and large format projection. He previously worked as head of production at the Royal Festival Hall before moving abroad to sunnier climes where he continued in production management for events and fiestas. Since returning to the UK recently he has focused on LEDs and media servers.

Nigel comments: "I'm thrilled to join Hawthorns. I believe they are the industry's best-kept secret, wit

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France - Innovason, French manufacturer of live digital mixing consoles, has announced the appointment of Marcel Babazadeh to the position of international sales director.

Philipp Lawo, CEO of the Lawo Group which has a majority shareholding in Innovason, is pleased to welcome Babazadeh to the Innovason team: "Marcel has extensive experience in audio hardware sales; his commercial success with leading companies in our industry provides irrefutable evidence of this", he says. "I was particularly impressed with his excellent relationship with users, pre- and post-sales su

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UK - Scott Anderson has been appointed as senior operations executive for Showsec's Scotland area office. Responsible for the overall operational management of the area, he will also focus on the continued expansion of Showsec's Scottish client base, developing new and existing relationships.

Anderson previously worked for Showsec from 1997 to 2002. Since then, he has worked in business development and client relationship management.

Says Anderson, "The company and the industry has progressed massively and I am returning to a far more professional, customer focused organisation

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UK - AC-ET has appointed industry veteran, Keith Hartley, as Northern service technician for the company's new Technical Services department in its Leeds office. The appointment is part of an overall expansion of its servicing facilities, which also includes increasing the existing servicing area of its High Wycombe office by over 50% and a doubling in size of its separate rigging motors servicing area.

This is in response to a major growth in AC-ET's servicing business to support the increasing range of product brands it stocks, as well as meeting customers' existing equipment needs.

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UK - After 18 years at the forefront of Midas and Klark Teknik, David Cooper has announced that he has left the company to form David Cooper Consulting.

The philosophy of David Cooper Consulting is to provide focused, long term sales and brand management services to an exclusive number of pro audio manufacturers. The select few that the new enterprise will go into partnership with will benefit from the company's strategic approach to brand management as well as its extensive global network of relationships built up over a generation.

"I'm absolutely thrilled to be in a position

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USA - J. R. Clancy has announced the appointment of Jim Crooks as the company's vice president, sales. He starts in his new Syracuse-based position on 10 May.

Crooks brings more than three decades of industry experience to J. R. Clancy. For the last 17 years, he has worked for a single group of entertainment lighting, dimming and energy management companies. In 1993, he joined Portland-based Entertainment Technology (ET) as their western regional manager and vice president, marketing. ET was acquired by Stamford based ROSCO Laboratories and later sold to a conglomerate called Genlyte.

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Belgium - PixLED has announced Bart Van der Beken as its new general manager.

Van der Beken has over 10 years of knowledge and experience in the LED industry, working for market leaders including Barco N.V and Element Labs, and brings with him a network of contacts from across the major EMEA and APAC rental and staging companies.

Van der Beken has a huge energy and enthusiasm for the technology and all its possibilities, and also for the industry in general. He is very positive about expanding PixLED's business in all sectors, and in taking the company forward over the coming years,

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UK - Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP, the advisor to sellers of businesses has recently appointed Joe Stelzer as a partner. Stelzer has a specialist expertise in the lighting sector and can also offer an insight into the company sale process having worked as both client and advisor.

Stelzer will also be focusing on the technology, defence & aerospace sectors and also dealing with family controlled businesses.

On graduating, Stelzer began his career by starting a software republishing firm before merging this business with his family engineering firm where, as chief executive, he use

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Switzerland - Merging Technologies, makers of the Pyramix digital audio workstation and VCube video playback platform have announced the appointment of Pierre Laporte to the position of sales manager, where he will be responsible for worldwide sales across the entire range of Merging products.

Laporte is no stranger to Merging's product line, having been managing director of the company's French distributor Diversity for 15 years. While there, he was instrumental in introducing the VCube video player to the French post-production market, overseeing the installation of 50 networked VCu

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USA - Bosch Security Systems Communications Systems Division has announced that Brian Divine has assumed the role of sr. product marketing manager, communications.

Divine joins Bosch with considerable industry and leadership experience, most recently from the Crown Audio Division of Harman International Industries, where he served as marketing director for installed sound and touring. In his new position, Divine will develop and implement marketing strategies for Bosch's ProSound brands in the Americas region, including Electro-Voice, and will act as the focal point for the voice of t

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Norway/UK - Norway's projectiondesign has recruited Matt Horwood as regional manager for the UK and Ireland. Horwood will be based in the UK office and work with Iain Ambler to build on the company's success into the specialist market and add focus to the Pro AV channel.

Horwood arrives at projectiondesign from Epson UK, where he had led a sales team covering specialist resellers and end users in the AV channel. Prior to that, he spent five years working in sales for the Pro AV reseller Reflex.

"I wanted to focus specifically on the AV channel and am very taken by the 'value ad

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UK - Lighting rental company HSL's busy project management team has been boosted with the arrival of Dave Singleton. He has previously worked with Kave Theatre Services in Sussex and also as a freelance production and project manager.

Singleton had worked for HSL whilst freelancing, which proved a fruitful experience for both parties ostensibly leading to this permanent appointment.

He says, "I am really excited to be onboard. I was always impressed by HSL's work ethic, their total dedication to providing the very best client service and support through investing in the latest

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UK - With the conference line-up for the Audio Engineering Society's 128th Convention in London now confirmed, some distinguished guests are beginning to make their way to London for the associated conferences (22-25 May) and exhibition (23-25 May), both of which are taking place this year at the Novotel Convention Centre in Hammersmith.

Japanese music technology research scientist and gifted public speaker Masataka Goto has now been confirmed as the Keynote Speaker at the Convention's opening ceremony on 22 May, and the Convention's final day will be graced by an appearance from Sir

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UK - Lighting industry veteran Guy Merchant has returned to Multi-Lite (UK) after a short period of time working for a Scottish lighting distributor. In his new position as sales manager he is now responsible for acquisitions, customer relationship and customer service to lighting professionals not only but emphasized in the entertainment industry.

Guy Merchant and his team will be at the at ABTT show in London next month (Lindley Hall Stand 7.)

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UK - HHB Communications has announced the appointment of Jonathan Darby as product support specialist. He has worked at post-production facilities in London, Dublin and New York where he honed his specialist skills in production, Pro Tools HD, Avid, Final Cut Pro, video and audio encoding and digital hardware.

"I've known HHB for a long time as a customer," comments Darby, "and have always been impressed with the service culture and depth of technical knowledge that runs throughout the company. Now I¹m looking forward to adding my experience to the mix, providing produ

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