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Frink has spent decades on the road mixing FOH and monitors for artists ranging from Tony Bennett to Joni Mitchell to Meredith Brooks. He also has worked on major events including the Superbowl, Pope John Paul II's 1995 Giants Stadium appearance, the New York Philharmonic/Metropolitan Opera's In the Parks concert series, and the Tibet Freedom Concert held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Frink acted as monitor engineer and production manager for k.d. lang on her 2004-2005 worldwide tour, on which she performed in concert halls with symphony orchestras.

Frink has also kept his finger on the pulse of the industry through his 10 years as sound reinforcement editor for MIX magazine, as well as a recent stint as tour sound editor for Li

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Quinton comes to SSL from TC Electronic, where he served as product specialist. Prior to that, Quinton was a freelance recording and post-production engineer based in Atlanta, following three years as a staff engineer at Doppler Studios.

As product specialist, Quinton's responsibilities will include product demonstrations to SSL retail partners, in-store clinics and tradeshows. He begins this undertaking with the recent launch of Duende, SSL's new DSP-powered processing rack unit for audio workstation users.

"I was a recording engineer in Atlanta and always had a tremendous respect for SSL," says Quinton. "I'm thrilled to be working for Solid State

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Since 2004 Charcoalblue, created by Andy Hayles, Jack Tilbury, Jon Stevens and Gavin Green, has also been working on the RSC's new Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.2005 saw commissions from English National Opera and Bristol Old Vic, in addition to being appointed by the National Theatre to work on its new studio redevelopment with Haworth Tompkins Architects. Following this, Aldeburgh Productions appointed Charcoalblue as theatre consultant for a second concert hall space at Snape Maltings, and to Newcastle Theatre Royal for a renewed flytower.

This year Charcoalblue was awarded the

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Donovan comes to SSL after three years as accounts manager with GC Pro, the pro audio sales division of music retailer Guitar Centre, where he was the top AWS 900 salesman. Donovan contributed to the success of the AWS 900, making sales to such customers as David Kershenbaum and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Donovan's responsibilities will include support and development of SSL's expanding XLogic dealer network, AWS 900+ sales support for Guitar Center and GC Pr

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In addition to his formal education Peter has already amassed wealth of industry experience. He has been involved with productions in the Bristol & Cardiff areas for the last six years. He also launched the online industry forum the Blue Room in early 2003 and continues as one if its key moderators.

Kirkup was a big user of Zero 88 products even before university and has been actively specifying our products to local amateur groups (especially the Frog range) after attending a Zero 88

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Recent qualifications undertaken by staff to enhance the specialist skills required to work across different sectors include the NEBOSH General Certificate (Hannah Charlton), National Rigging Award A1 Assessor (Simon James) and the Institute of Acoustics Certificate of Competence in Workplace Noise Assessment (Tim Roberts).

TESS managing director Mike Richmond said: "The Investors In People award, along with our new infrastructure reflects a continuing commitment to expand the diversity of areas we work in, and raise the quality of service to clie

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As the new business leader for the EAW brand, Cox will be responsible for defining and leading all business and product strategies, including collaborating with Loud's sales, engineering, operations and marketing teams to ensure the deployment of these plans worldwide.

Cox brings to EAW a proven track record of introducing industry-defining sound reinforcement products and building highly successful business organizations around them. As the founder and CEO of Cox Audio Engineering, he was responsible for the introduction and manufacturing of the V-DOSC Line Array, a product that caused a paradigm shift in loudspeaker formatting which completely altered modern-day touring and installed systems.

"I couldn't be happier that Jeff has agreed to h

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"I am very pleased to have Rich guide our marketing team," says Steve Carson, Vari-Lite vice president and general manager. "He has shown a tremendous aptitude for leadership and his marketing knowledge is second to none. Through his supervision, I know that Vari-Lite will once again lead the industry with fresh and unique marketing campaigns."

"When I first began to look into Vari-Lite, I knew instantly it would be marketing prof

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Orozco comes to Meyer Sound after occupying several marketing positions in Mexico's financial and entertainment industries and acting as marketing consultant to companies such as Glaxo-Smithkline, ING Financial Group, Novedades Editores, and Texas-based SoilLock Inc. Orozco also has contributed to magazines in Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

"Meyer Sound has a strong reputation and consistently inspires en

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René Morch, formerly with DK Technologies, has joined DPA as new development manager with a brief to oversee all technical projects, optimising the potential of the creative team behind the company's product development.

The other changes affect three of the company's co-owners. Ole Brosted Sorensen has become Director of Innovation, steering the company's technological developments into the future, while Jens-Jorn Stokholm - one of the developers of DPA's renowed miniature microphone - is Director of Development, ensuring that the company's direction is realised.

Meanwhile Morten Sto

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Davidson has a long and distinguished track record in the British film and music recording industries. He spent 18 years in various technical and managerial roles at Townhouse and Olympic Studios in London, before moving to Abbey Road Studios, also part of the EMI Studio Group. Most recently, he served as operations manager of the famous De Lane Lea film and TV post-production facilities in central London. He has also completed several consultancy projects in the studio sector.

His move to Technical Earth came ab

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Freihoefer will take care for supporting the existing e:cue distributors and providing support service for special projects.

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Gregor returns to Northern Light, after an absence of 12 years, as events services manager. During his time away he ran his own company - Liquid Lighting - supplying lighting to the nightclub and events industries. After a chance meeting with Northern Light's managing director, Gregor was wooed back to the company and will liaise with clients to plan the production of their events.

Ferguson joins Northern Light as marketing manager from her own freelance marketing consultancy. With experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors, Lois will put in place Northern Light's strategic marketing and communications plan and address the day to day marketing

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Kaplan brings nearly 20 years of industry experience to the role, including former sales management positions with Vossloh-Schwabe and Advance Transformer Company. She most recently served as manager, specification sales for Vossloh-Schwabe Optoelectronics.

Kaplan is actively involved as secretary of the IESNY and was Chair of the IESNY Lumen Journal from 2000 - 2003. She has presented at a number of events including Lightfair, PhiliLights, LightStock Detroit, GlobalCon, and Greenlights.

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Baum comes to Martin with 19 years of experience in the outdoor, public space lighting market. He also brings with him a wealth of international business experience. During the last five years Baum was employed by Holophane in Newark, Ohio where he held positions in marketing, product development, customer and sales training and strategic planning. His most recent position was as vice president strategic initiatives responsible for establishing initiatives geared toward growing company wide sales. Prior to Holophane, Baum spent 14 years at Ameron Pole Products in Ventura, California.

Baum started in his new position at Martin on 21April. His responsibilities in the public spaces segment are extensive and in

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Brock is a long-time Martin employee, having worked for the company since 1996. In his tenure at Martin he has worked in various regional sales manager positions, primarily in the Midwest and East Coast. In his new position as national sales director - commercial Brock oversees Martin U.S.'s commercial segment sales staff nationwide.

Prior to 1996 Jamey, a former Marine, worked as an independent sales rep. Before that he worked in the audio industry in his own rep firm. He also has experience working as a DJ in nightclubs and in local radio and has been involved in the entertainment technology industry since 1983.

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In addition to a lengthy career in manufacturing, he worked for seven years at McCune Sound Service as a sound system designer and engineer where he pioneered high-fidelity sound for SuperBowls XVII and XIX. Later, DeLoria was the system alignment engineer for seven years of the Grammys, six years of the Oscars, two Democratic National Conventions, numerous Broadway shows and more than a hundred permanent system installations.

DeLoria says: "Community has long been known as the 'go to' company for outdoor and weather resistant loudspeaker products. What's not as well k

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Both new staff members are responsible for developing and managing the hire and sales of Blackout products including starcloth, drapes and rigging, working closely with Blackout's project management team, headed by Chris Brain and Kevin Monks.

"We're delighted with the two appointments. Both staff members are very enthusiastic and have settled in well in their new roles," says Steve Tuck, managing director at Blackout Ltd. "At Blackout, every member of our team is passionate about delivering the very best in products and services."

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Matthew's extensive AV background includes working with Reflex and Steljes alike, where he gained extensive distributor and reseller experience. With a huge knowledge of system integration and technical detail at both distributor and user level, he will be a great asset to PSCo's team, say the company.

Delaney explained: "I am looking forward to working with the PSCo team as they are a company focussed on new technologies and advancing the industry with fresh ideas

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A gigging musician, McLean first started working for Yamaha Kemble upon graduating from University in 2004. Prior to the appointment within Commercial Audio, he worked in Yamaha's Central Operations department in a dealer support role. The main focus of the new position, the company says, is to create a constant first point of contact for customers for all aspects of Yamaha's Commercial Audio Business and to reinforce the 'local service, global support' promise.

This will cover all enquiries ranging from a checking sto

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Oliver originally worked for RCF and then Mackie, before joining KV2 Audio in 2003. "I thoroughly enjoyed my time with KV2 and I felt I learned a great deal from the team," he says. With KV2's move to new offices in Harrogate, he decided not to relocate.

RCF's Phil Price added: "I am really pleased to have Greg back with RCF. With the introduction of the new pro speaker products at this year's ProLight&Sound, it has become even more important to present them direct to the our clients. Greg will be offering complete loudspeaker system audio demonstrations to our client base by visiting either with on site demos or pre

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Fletcher began his career in the industry as a salesman for various professional photographic equipment suppliers, while pursuing his studies in Economics and, at the same time, got involved in stage hand work at the local IATSE. in September 1986. In 1997, he graduated from Lionel-Groulx College in Theater Production, and, in December of the same year, joined the team at Solotech as lighting spe

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A strong knowledge of paging systems, interfacing, fault-finding, problem-solving, AMX design, VoIP and vast experience with servicing most theatrical and entertainment equipment means Adam's new role as design engineer at GDS will further compliment the innovative company, which recently launched new LED products BlueBeam and BlueDome.

Director Matt Lloyd said: "Due to the ongoing development of GDS and the increased demand for its services, the company is delighted to appoint Adam, who brings

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Other changes announced for the Polch office include the promotion of Sascha Khelifa to operations director and the addition of Frank Martin as installation sales manager.

Meyer Sound says: "Sides will focus on developing resources at the German office and infusing it with more of the corporate culture of service, support, and accessibility embraced at t