Buzz: Movers and Shakers
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Shirley Pierini, CPP, has advanced to the presidency of ASIS International. She is vice president of corporate security and safety for Ameriquest Mortgage Corp. … Peter Mapp,Sound & Video Contractor‘s acoustics and measurement consultant, became the 2003 recipient of the U.K. Institute of Acoustics’ PBM Award for his work in the fields of intelligibility, electroacoustics, and education. … Leviton is now an Edge Marketing and Procurement vendor. In addition, Edge Marketing and Procurement appointed Ted Ingber as director of sales and marketing, Datacom. … Ephraim Rein has been named CEO of the American division of Griffid.… SLS Loudspeakers appointed Rod Falconer as national sales manager, professional and commercial products. … Altinex named Thomas Noack as its marketing manager. … AVAD LLC added Solar Shading Systems’ VisionArt to its product offerings. … ClearOne Communications named Zeynep Hakimoglu vice president of product management and appointed Neo/Sci Corp. and Walter Products as value-added equipment distributors. … Digital Projection International has signed agreements with Sapphire Marketing, HP Marketing, PMP Marketing, Total Marketing, Visitec, Advanced A/V Systems, and the Michael Baskin Company to market and distribute its newest Precision Line products. … Peerless Industries promoted Mike Campagna to president and appointed Dean Arvanitis to director of marketing. … Aviom has hired Tom Knesel as a regional sales manager and has added three new rep firms: Audio Geer, Eaton Sales and Marketing, and HP Marketing Company. … Intelix, U.S. added Andrew Kurth to its application engineering department. … Inter-M Americas has named Anew CT as its new rep firm for Arizona, Southern California, Colorado, southern Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. … Omneon Video Networks appointed Midwest regional sales manager James Skupien and Northeast regional sales manager Keith Andoos. … Specialized Communications has become a Sony dealer for media, offering a complete stock of Sony recordable media. … Kaleidescape and Krell Industries have signed Caster Communications as agency of record for all public-relations activities. … Philadelphia Sound Productions has been named the first authorized dealer for Steve Dash Audio and its new SDX 3700 rotary mixer. … Furman Sound appointed James Bonfiglio as president/chief executive officer. … Hirsch Electronics has appointed John Coker to the newly created position of director of North American sales. … Shannon McSweeney has joined the PFS Marketwyse public-relations team for JVC Professional Products Company as the lead PR/communications manager on the account. … Paul Jacobs has been promoted to president of Klipsch Audio Technologies. … Listen Technologies Corp. added Joshua Cody Hall as its newest research and development team member. … Sonance appointed Jim Knight as Midwest general manager. … SoundTube Entertainment named Duke Ducoff as director of sales. … Rep One Marketing is the new Avlex sales representative in central and northern Illinois and central and eastern Wisconsin, and Fred Allard is the Avlex regional sales manager with responsibilities for northern California, northern Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Allard also assumes direct sales responsibility for the Arizona, southern Nevada, and Southern California markets. … Bag End Loudspeaker Systems has reached a distribution agreement with Heavenly Sound Systems to distribute its product lines in Germany. … New regional sales manager Brian Kunz represents Draper in Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. New regional sales manager Matt Hunt represents Draper in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, and Kentucky. … Sennheiser Electronic Asia has been appointed as the distributor to represent the L-Acoustics range of products for Southeast Asian countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam. Also, Sennheiser Communications, the new telecommunications division of Sennheiser Electronics Corp., has added Shannon Murphy to its inside sales staff in the position of inside sales representative. … Creative Technology (CT) appointed William Nealie as audio engineer and head of CT California’s audio department. … DiGiCo USA, LLC has appointed Ivan Schwartz as U.S. national sales manager. … Leadman Electronics, USA has become the exclusive distributor of the Play@TV digital media adapter in the U.S. market. … Lenbrook America will distribute Panamax’s power-conditioning products to the Canadian consumer electronics channel. … Several staff promotions were announced at Production Resource Group. Bill Campbell is general manager of lighting operation in Las Vegas. Cathy Gilligan is asset manager for the Las Vegas office. Erin Byrnes assumes a national asset management responsibility. David Patton is national director of lighting operations. … Sonance named Joseph Finelli as Southeast general manager. … Zeosoft Technology Group made an agreement with InterTech Technical Services Group to provide product fulfillment, technical, and customer support services for Zeosoft’s Mobile Badger.
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