JBL Professional has appointed industry veteran Peter Chaikin as director of marketing,recording & broadcast. Chaikin will take over marketing responsibility for the company's studio monitors, including the LSR line of powered monitors, as well as developing new products in the line.

Chaikin has held high-level product marketing and marketing managementpositions at Alesis and Yamaha, where he was instrumental in the success ofseveral digital recording and mixing products. He also has 15 years ofindependent recording engineering experience, working with dozens of nameacts including Quincy Jones, Patrice Rushen, George Duke, Michael Sembelloand Harvey Mason. Chaikin received RIAA Gold and Platinum Records and aGRAMMY nomination for "Best Engineered Recording."


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