Cadac Holdings announced a number of strategic initiatives at this year's Prolight+Sound exhibition, with major significance for its on-going business development. The company announced the appointment of Vincenzo Borrelli to the newly created position of sales development manager. Borrelli has previously worked for companies as diverse as Harman, Mackie, Sound Technology and, most recently Stage Electrics.

Commenting on the appointment, Cadac director of sales Bob Thomas stated, "Cadac is actively developing a retail focussed distribution network as a major element in its future growth

UK - Star Events Group announces that its Design and Engineering department has recently taken on three new staff following substantial increases to the company's workload and turnover.

The three new staff are: Tony Benabu (senior design engineer, Aaron Enos (design engineer) and Anthony Reeves (CAD technician).

Steve Horton (Design Division manager) will move to a consulting role at the end of August, focussing primarily on new product development and Mark Constant retains his position as design office manager.

"This enhanced staffing level will enable us to get our engineer

UK - To meet market demands and to improve customer service, American DJ Europe has strengthened its sales team in the UK.

Curtis Lewis is now in the American DJ UK team as area sales manager for the Southern region. Curtis brings a solid experience from all DJ environments. Not only that he has worked himself for many years as a DJ, he was a retailer of DJ equipment, and most recently worked as a sales manager in the industry.

"We are pleased to have Curtis in the team now", says Dirk Kast, general manager of ADJ Group Europe. "We need qualified people to serve best

UK - Black Light is pleased to announce that Calder Sibbald has joined its Events Team. Calder has many years' experience working for some of Scotland's leading theatres and technical support companies. In his capacity as Events Manager, he will be responsible for developing Black Light's event capabilities, as well as ensuring that all clients get the highest level of service and support.

"I am really looking forward to working at Black Light on a permanent basis," says Calder, who has worked with the company in a freelance capacity in the past. "It's a really friendly

UK - Production Resource Group UK has announced that Matthew Button has joined its in-house lighting design team in the role of account manager / lighting designer.

Button joins PRG with 18 years experience in lighting and AV production across corporate, exhibition, touring music, television and theatre with clients including O2, Deloitte and General Motors, and tours such as Primal Scream, The Chemical Brothers and Jay-Z.

In addition to design, Button is an experienced and accomplished operator of lighting desks and media servers, as well as having extensive knowledge of video & la

USA - Bill Groener has joined A.C.T Lighting as vice-president of business development.

"We're delighted to welcome Bill to A.C.T Lighting after a distinguished career in design, teaching, and management at well-known lighting companies," says Bob Gordon, president and CEO of A.C.T Lighting. "Bill is a seasoned industry professional and throughout his career, he has used his exceptional people skills and unique management techniques to achieve significant success in design, systems integration, sales/marketing, business development and general management. In his new rol

USA - DPA Microphones CEO and shareholder Christian Poulsen has assumed day-to-day management of DPA Inc, the Danish manufacturer's US subsidiary, with immediate effect.

Poulsen, who was appointed CEO in October after four years on the DPA board of directors, is a graduate of the Danish Engineering Academy and founder of digital camera and scanner company Imacon. The fastest growing industrial company in Denmark in 1999 and 2000, Imacon merged with Hasselblad in 2004 to transform the Swedish photography giant from high-end film camera company to a fully digital camera operation.

Pou

USA - Chauvet has announced the appointment of Stéphane Gressier as global sales director.

Gressier brings 17 years of international sales, marketing and management experience with him to the role. Originally from France, he moved to the United States in 1987 and studied international business at Cal State Fullerton. Gressier has held international sales, marketing and management positions at Skechers USA, Inc., Pagoda International, ClosetMaid Corporation and Clay Forever.

Gressier has lived in Vietnam, France, Jordan, Venezuela and Brazil and speaks English, Portuguese, Spa

UK - Helen Ward has rejoined Saville Audio Visual as North West area sales manager for conference and live events operations.

Ward joined the sales team at the company's Leeds office in 1987 and later transferred to the Saville Manchester centre and progressed to hire manager before leaving in 2004 for a spell outside the company.

She has returned to take up a newly created role as part of the company's drive to strengthen its national profile and comments, "I'm delighted to be back and looking forward to renewing acquaintances and making new ones. The conference and events sec

UK - Saville Audio Visual has announced the appointment of Paul Riddell as North East operations supervisor at the Saville Gateshead conference production centre.

Durham-born Riddell has worked in the live events sector of the audio visual industry for 16years, starting as an AV technician at British Airways' conference centre and later working with WH Smith, the Currys/Dixons rebrand roadshow and with NCJ Media.

Speaking about his new role, he said, "I'm really happy to be working with Saville in the north east. It's a difficult time for the events industry but I'm looking for

France - Sound reinforcement systems specialist Nexo has confirmed the appointment of Ginny Goudy as its new international marketing director.

Goudy is a familiar face to Nexo's employees, distributors and customers, having acted as the company's PR and communications consultant since 1997. Armed with a Eurostar season ticket, she will now take up a wider remit to develop NEXO's marketing strategy across its varied international marketplaces, and work to enrich client relations, communications and customer support.

Well known in pro audio circles, Goudy's career as an independent pr

UK - PLASA has revealed that Ruth Rossington, a former editor of LSi magazine and now Executive Director EU and COO at PLASA, is to leave the association at the end of 2011. Ruth joined the organisation in 1988, working initially as assistant editor on LSi, and becoming editor in June 1997.At the start of 2004, she left LSi to become a Director of PLASA, working alongside the events, media, membership, skills and technical teams. In the last 18 months, she has led the operational side of PLASA's merger with ESTA, working closely with Lori Rubinstein in North America to steer the first p

USA - Jamey Calloway has been named as Liberty's new product manager. An industry veteran who has over 25 years' of technical and management experience, Calloway will be developing and implementing overall new product strategies for the company on a worldwide basis.

Calloway comes to the post from the Greensboro, North Carolina offices of Tyco Electronics, where he served as that company's product manager.

"My role today with Liberty effectively brings all the skills I've developed over the course of a very satisfying career together into one place," Calloway said on his f

UK - XL Video has announced the tragic loss of company director Des Fallon. Des was a key figure in the history of XL Video and a well known and respected character in the live event production industry.

XL Video has this afternoon issued a statement which reads: "With great sadness we announce the death of Des Fallon, XL Video director, production industry legend and incredible personality.

"Des passed away in his sleep on Wednesday night. Des's passion and dedication to his work, love of people and life, and incisive wit and humour was an inspiration to all who knew him.

Germany / UAE - The beginning of June will see a reassignment of responsibilities at Bosch Communications Systems. To date, as sales director pro audio export, Klaus Seitz has been responsible for the pro sound sector (Electro-Voice, Dynacord) in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), whilst Kamil Swobodzinski has been responsible for the marketing of broadcast and intercom equipment (RTS, Telex) in the same three regions. Henceforth, responsibility for both the brands and the sales regions will be differently assigned between the two. The duties of the existing export sales manager

USA - Audio-Technica has announced the appointment of Michael Edwards to the position of vice-president professional markets. The announcement was made by Audio-Technica US president and CEO Philip Cajka.

Following the start of his audio career as a successful recording engineer, Edwards joined Audio-Technica in 1994, and has served the company since then in a variety of key roles in sales, marketing, and most recently as director of product management. He is a member of the Audio-Technica Taiwan board of directors.

As leader of the company's professional division, Edwards will have

UK - CUK Audio has announced that Simon Druce is joining its sales team. Druce will be bringing his sales and technical expertise to support the complete line of brands distributed by CUK Audio, including Audica Professional, Community, Clair Brothers Systems, DIS (Danish Interpretation Systems), Digigram, MTSi, Powersoft, Sabine, Symetrix and Work.

Druce previously spent 10 years at beyerdynamic, and subsequently Polar Audio, as national sales manager. More recently he was employed by Audio-Technica as UK sales manager, pro-audio and installation.

CUK Audio MD, Stuart Thomson comme

New Zealand - Philips Selecon head Jeremy Collins has announced he will be leaving Philips Selecon at the end of June.

Collins, who bought the company in 1985 (with colleague Andrew Nichols) and has been instrumental in building the Selecon brand over the past quarter of a century, says he is moving on "to a new stage' in his life".

Since Philips acquired Selecon in April 2009, Collins has been a driving force in ensuring a smooth transition and further development of the Philips Selecon products.

"For 25 years Selecon has been a major part of my life,' says Collins

Germany - On 1 May, Alexander Donath accepted the position of sales manager Western Europe for Electro-Voice. In his new role, he will be the contact for distributors operating in Western European countries.

Donath states, "Rental companies and building clients on installation projects are obliged to invest in future-proof technology and therefore require comprehensive support from the planning stage right through to the commissioning and day-to-day operation of the equipment.

"Under the Bosch umbrella, Electro-Voice and its distributors are able to offer customers this hi

Germany - Jörg Heise has joined Riedel Communications as its new chief operations officer (COO). Heise began his duties at the communications, audio and video network specialist in May, 2011 in Wuppertal.

"I'm looking forward to working alongside the company's founder, Thomas Riedel, CFO Uwe Bingel, as well as the rest of the management team as we continue generating sustainable growth," said Heise.

Heise, who holds an advanced degree in economics, has many years of leadership experience at mid cap technology and manufacturing companies. He was most recently the CEO of Wi

UK - L-Acoustics has appointed Chris Vass to the position of UK technical support manager, working alongside UK sales manager Stuart Down. Both will be at ABTT in London on 15 and 16 June on the HD Pro Audio stand.

Vass comes from a background of large scale corporate, rock and roll and theatre events, and has used L-Acoustics products for a number of years. "I feel there is really nothing better on the market," he says. "An opportunity to work with the company that not only invented the technology as we know it today, but is always at the cutting edge with regards to n

Germany - Andreas Köstlinger has accepted the position of technical support manager - mobile audio EMEA with EVI Audio GmbH. In his new position, Köstlinger will be the contact partner for tech support solutions as well as training opportunities.

"In the course of my many years working in the live sector, I became intimately acquainted with - and quickly learnt to appreciate -- the reliability and quality of products from EVI Audio," says Köstlinger. "As technical support manager, it is important that I not only know the products inside-out but that I am also able to

UK - International lighting design consultants Light Bureau have announced the departure of design director, Paul Nulty. After 11 years with the practice he has left the company. Nulty's ambition to set up and run his own practice, Paul Nulty Lighting Design, is the reason behind his departure, says the company.

Light Bureau Principal, Paul Traynor said: "It has been a pleasure working with Paul and I sincerely wish him every success with his new company. Paul's commitment to the practice over the years has stood Light Bureau in good stead for the future and we look forward to fu

France - Nexo has announced the retirement of its CEO and president Keisuke Kobayashi, and the appointment of Yoshiyuki Tsugawa (also known as Yoshi) as his successor.

No stranger to Nexo, Tsugawa was appointed by Kobayashi as a key member of the project team which oversaw the acquisition of Nexo by Yamaha Corporation in 2007. Since that time, Kobayashi has been at the helm of Nexo at its campus in Plailly, north of Paris, where he has overseen the company's transition from entrepreneurial independent manufacturer into a prized subsidiary of Yamaha. Throughout, Tsugawa has remained in

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