New Appointments at JBL Pro

JBL has announced that veteran Guy Hawley has assumed the additional role of sales director, Asia. Based in London, Hawley will add the Asian territory to his current responsibilities as sales director - Middle East and Africa. Hawley has a long history with JBL: prior to his working as director of sales, Europe, Hawley held several sales positions for Harman UK, the company-owned European distributor. "I welcome this challenge and opportunity in the Asian markets," stated Hawley. "JBL has many longstanding relationships with our Asian distributors. These markets offer growth and stability and their strength in the contracting and cinema markets makes them even more important for us. I look forward to working with these customers to get them to the next level with JBL."

JBL has also announced the promotion of Rick Kamlet to the position of senior director, installed sound marketing. In this new capacity, Kamlet will handle the combined vertical market responsibilities for both the Engineered Sound and the Commercial Sound of the installed sound contracting market. Kamlet has been with JBL Professional for 10 years, having held positions of senior product manager for a number of vertical markets as well as director of commercial sound for the past three years. Prior to joining JBL, Kamlet worked in senior roles for a number of professional audio manufacturers, most of whom are focused on the contractor marketplace. With the addition of the other segments of the installed sound contracting loudspeaker business, Kamlet will now co-ordinate JBL Professional's overall marketing activities to the sound contracting market. This includes several JBL Professional product lines including Control and Control Contractor, Venue, Sound Power, and Marquis Series as well as the new EVO Intelligent Loudspeaker Systems.

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