08 l May 2013
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industrymovers
Andrew Higginson VDC Trading
Henry Goldansky Vince Grieb
Harman shakes up speaker team
The changes come as the JBL division continues to expand its presence around the globe
HARMAN PROFESSIONAL has named Vince Grieb senior director, operations for its Loudspeaker SBU; Henry Goldansky becomes director of engineering; John Powell has been named vice president of sales; and Brian Divine becomes director of marketing. Grieb has been with Harman since 2005 in lead operations roles within the Infotainment division. In his new role, he will bring his expertise in Lean/Six Sigma manufacturing practices, quality assurance management and project management to the Loudspeaker Strategic Business Unit’s manufacturing plants across the globe. Goldansky joined Harman in 2007 as a senior engineering
manager at JBL Professional. Powell will be responsible for sales planning and management, including close collaboration with the regional sales managers and manufacturer’s representatives in the domestic market and international distributors and sales directors. Divine returns to Harman
from Bosch Communications Systems, where he last served as business line manager, professional sound for Electro- Voice and Dynacord. Previously, Divine held key positions within Crown Audio, most notably as marketing director of installed sound and touring.
www.harmanpro.com
+See Bradley interview, p46
Arjen Hofland RTW
Andrew Higginson (ex-CEO of Tesco Retail Services) has been appointed chairman of the board at VDC Trading. His role will involve providing support and advice while assisting VDC as it expands its international and retail operations. Chris D’Aguiar has joined the board as commercial director and will lead on the development of both UK and international markets for VDC and Van Damme.
www.vdctrading.com
Arjen Hofland has joined RTW as international
sales manager. Based at RTW’s HQ in Cologne, Germany, Hofland will oversee all of RTW’s international sales around the world. He has 25 years of experience in the pro- audio and video industry, and brings to RTW a thorough knowledge of the pro-audio and broadcast industries. He has spent time at several top-tier audio and video companies in and around Europe.
www.rtw.de
Loudspeaker manufacturer Martin
Audio has appointed James King as its new director of
James King Martin Audio
Bob McCarthy Meyer Sound
marketing. He joins from Motorola where he was EMEA brand marketing director and will be based at Martin Audio’s international headquarters in High Wycombe, UK.
www.martin-audio.com
Meyer Sound has appointed Bob McCarthy
to the newly created position of director of system optimisation. McCarthy will be part of the R&D department with a mission to advance networked audio solutions. This continues a long association with Meyer Sound; McCarthy was one of the earliest users of the company’s products in the 1980s, and has been a pivotal figure in the development of all three generations of the SIM source independent measurement system. In the mid-1980s, he taught the first ‘SIM School’ which evolved into the Meyer Sound worldwide education programme.
www.meyersound.com
Wise Buddah has appointed former BBC
Radio 1 producer Neil Sloan to the newly created role of audio output manager. He will be executive producing all of the
Neil Sloan Wise Buddah
radio’s indie BBC radio commissions as well as any brand- funded audio content. He will also be given licence to develop new pay-per-play content ideas for direct-to-consumer channels.
www.wisebuddah.com
Audio-Technica has announced a series of
changes across its UK salesforce. Joining as area sales manager for MI in the south of England, Alex Farrell previously held the position of area sales manager at Tascam. Gary Maguire, meanwhile, builds on his existing role as Allen & Heath analogue product manager at Audio- Technica, taking on the additional responsibility of the southern area sales manager role. Transitioning from northern
area sales manager to UK market manager, Tim Riley will be responsible for working with the salesforce to develop the Audio- Technica brand in new and existing UK markets. Logan Helps now takes up
the role of northern area sales manager from his position as training and product support specialist, with Tom Griffiths joining Audio-Technica in Helps’ role.
www.audio-technica.com
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