08 l July 2014
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Luke Jenks Meyer Sound
John Buchanan Meridian
Tarkiainen’s time to shine
Erik Tarkiainen appointed vice-president of global marketing for Harman Professional
AS THE new VP of global marketing, Eric Tarkiainen will lead “global marketing strategy and execution” across the Harman Professional division (stewarding brands including JBL, AKG, Soundcraft/Studer, Martin Professional and BSS). His prior experience includes serving as vice-president of marketing communications for Line 6 and cofounding iZotope, the audio processing and music effects pioneer. The president of Harman Professional, Blake
Augsburger, says: “Erik is an excellent addition to a strong team and I am confident he will lead a comprehensive program that couples Harman’s unique heritage and depth with progressive, entrepreneurial and engaging communications.” Harman Professional – chief marketing officer Ralph Santana adds: “Erik’s background in audio, marketing and digital strategy positions him as a unique person for this role.”
www.harmanpro.com
Meyer Sound has promoted Luke Jenks to director of product management. Jenks had previously served as the company’s loudspeaker product manager. “Luke is intimately familiar with our products at all levels,” comments Meyer Sound executive vice-president Helen Meyer, “but, more importantly, he has served as the important bridge between customers and engineering to help translate the needs and challenges on the ground into practical and complete solutions.”
www.meyersound.com
Meridian has announced the appointment of
John Buchanan to the role of chief executive. John has been part of Meridian’s management team since 2007 and has worked globally across all areas of the company’s business. Meridian chairman Bob Stuart says: “John has proven himself to be a strong organisational leader in his role at the head of our consumer products business, and his appointment as chief executive continues the important work necessary to accelerate Meridian’s growth.”
www.meridian-audio.com
Jiou-Pahn Lee Riedel Comminications
Dave Raymen Saville Audio Visual
Bash Akhtar Martin Audio
David Morbey Martin Audio
Martin Audio has made two new strategic hires:
Bash Akhtar has joined as operations director, and David Morbey as the company’s first dedicated product manager. The director of marketing for Martin Audio, James King, says: “We’re delighted to have Bash and David join us as we continue to build a world-class team. Their expertise will enable us to further grow the business and support our customer base.”
www.martin-audio.com
Steve Farmer has been named Wohler
Technologies’ new director of engineering. Farmer will be responsible for consolidating and focussing the company’s engineering efforts to target key markets more effectively. Carl J. Dempsey, Wohler president and CEO, says: “His work will aid us not only in maintaining our role as an extension of customers’ own engineering resources, but also in continuing to marry our very successful monitoring technologies with our groundbreaking stream- based and file-based solutions.”
www.wohler.com
Jiou-Pahn Lee has been appointed
director of R&D for Riedel
Steve Farmer Wohler Technologies
Communications. “With experience leading product development at well-known technology companies, Jiou-Pahn comes to Riedel with extensive knowledge of designing world-class products for the [...] broadcasting and production industry,” says Thomas Riedel, Riedel Communications president. Lee will be responsible for exploring and developing new technologies and “evaluating their impact on achieving business goals”.
www.riedel.net
Saville Audio Visual has announced that
Dave Raymen has rejoined the company’s AV systems division as regional business manager (south). Raymen will now be responsible for the sales, engineering and administration functions of Saville activities cross the south of England. He will also join the company’s AV systems senior management team. Saville director Andy Dyson comments: “His enormous range of industry experience across sales, engineering and business management, along with his focus on quality and customer care, will be a great asset.”
www.saville-av.com
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