04 l March 2014
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Organisational restructure completed at PLASA
Professional Lighting and Sound Association finish realigning the transatlantic structure, finds Erica Basnicki
THE PLASA boards and staff have recently completed new strategic and operating plans to guide the organisation through the next years of its development. Fundamental to the successful implementation of both plans is a revised senior management structure comprising three executive directors (CEO, CFO and COO), plus six divisional
EUROPE/UNITED STATES New faces at NewBay By Dave Robinson
PUBLISHING GIANT NewBay Media – whose portfolio includes PSNEurope – has appointed Mark Burton to the post of managing director of NewBay Media Europe/Intent Media. Burton, who most recently led
Incisive Media’s Insurance Group as its group publishing director and was responsible for a wide portfolio of branded media products and events, took up his
new post on 17 February. “Mark is an accomplished
media executive with an impressive track record,” states Steve Palm, CEO, NewBay Media. “He is the right person to further develop our magazine, digital, and event capabilities and aggressively grow our European business. I am excited to have him join our team.” Burton’s most recent stable of
Burton: new MD for Intent Media
brands at Incisive Media included Post, Insurance Age and Insurance Hound. During his time there he
Charles Weiss: coordinating US and European titles
was instrumental in launching data-driven digital products, expanding the insurance events portfolio into new territories, and gaining substantial subscription growth through digital corporate licenses. Burton has also served
as publisher of Incisive’s Computer Reseller News (CRN), Accountancy Age and Financial
directors – of membership, international programmes, sales, marketing, events and media. Matthew Griffiths and Shane
McGreevy currently fill the positions of CEO and CFO respectively. The COO post will be recruited in the first part of 2014 and will be based out of PLASA’s New York office. Lori Rubinstein will retain her
executive director responsibilities in North America during this transitional period until the new COO is fully in place. “Assuming we can find the right person we hope to have them in the post by the summer of this year,” Griffiths tells PSNEurope. “The point is that it’s a global
organisational change, so by default does involve Europe. In
terms of senior management changes, we did them last year,” Griffiths adds in reference to Chris Toulmin’s appointment to PLASA director of events in 2013. Toulmin will be joined by a new
director of marketing and director of media, who will join the PLASA organisation within the next 12-18 months, says Griffiths.
PLASA CEO Matthew Griffiths with Lori Rubinstein, director of international programmes
These initial staff changes are
part of a wider reorganisational structure and according to PLASA it will take two to three years to assemble the full staff highlighted in the operational plan.
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Director. Earlier experience includes executive positions at VNU Business Media. He takes over the position from Stuart Dinsey, the Intent founder who left the company in October 2013. In other NewBay news, Charles
Weiss has joined the company as a publisher in the US-based AV/Pro Audio Group where he will have responsibility for titles including Pro Sound News, Music Festival Business, and the AES Daily. Additionally, Weiss has been
charged with increasing the editorial and sales coordination between NewBay US and European AV/Pro Audio brands, including PSNEurope, Installation and Audio Media.
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