UK - Hannah Eakins has joined specialist UK LED lighting manufacturer i-Pix as business development manager.Her role will be to identify and develop new business opportunities, working alongside both the in-house i-Pix team in Manchester, and Martin Palmer who is responsible for i-Pix sales at London-based sales and rental company, White Light.

In the past seven years, Eakins has worked at both Total Production International magazine and AED Rent. "I am very much looking forward to the future and taking the i-Pix brand strategy forward," she states.

i-Pix founder and director Chris Ewington says, "I'm delighted to welcome Hannah on board. We are continuing to focus on bringing a range of different and unique products to the market and working very closely w

UK - Yamaha Music GmbH (UK) has announced that Karl Christmas has been appointed to the role of senior manager for Commercial Audio. The newly created position sees Christmas adding to his existing responsibilities for the CA-Sales Team, dealer partners and user support.

Yamaha state that Karl is to become involved across the company's wide-ranging Pan-European CA marketing activities helping to maximise advertising and PR opportunities and driving more online communications including the recently launched Commercial Audio Europe Facebook page which is proving highly popular amongst e

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 - 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

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