People & Places

People and Places

• AVI-SPL Wins Virginia AV Contract

  AVI-SPL, a global integrator of pro AV, video conferencing and telepresence systems, was recently awarded a two-year contract to supply AV services for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

   

• Projectiondesign Taps New President for North America

  Projectiondesign announced the appointment of Karl Hantho as president of its Americas subsidiary.

   

• Crestron Beefs Up Western U.S. Sales

  Crestron announced the appointment of six new members to its west coast sales team.

   

• Crestron Names News Director for Residential Market

  Crestron announced the appointment of Ami Wright as its director of residential market development.

   

• Almo Pro A/V Elevates Three to VP

  National distributor Almo Professional A/V announced the promotion of three employees to vice president positions within its professional audio/visual division.

   

• Sextant Group Hires Ohio State Tech Leader

  National consulting firm The Sextant Group has hired a key instructional technologies thought leader from The Ohio State University Office of Information Technology.

   

• Sharp Announces Reorg

  Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, announced several personnel and organizational changes that will take place immediately.

   

• Liberty AV Hires Networking Expert

  Jamey Calloway has been named Liberty AV's new product manager, company officials announced.

   

• Sennheiser Names Installed Sound Head

  Peter Claussen will take over responsibility of the Installed Sound Business Division at audio specialist Sennheiser.

   

• Chief's Parent Company Snaps Up Da-Lite

  Milestone AV Technologies, manufacturer of Chief and Sanus brand AV mounting and display solutions, and Da-Lite Screen Company, manufacturer of Da-Lite, Projecta and Procolor brand commercial and residential projection screens, announced a merger of the two companies.

   

• Biamp Taps Vocia Product Manager

  Biamp Systems announced T.J. Adams as its new product manager for paging products.

   

• AV Integrator Achieves Rare Trifecta

  Applied Visual Communications (AVC) announced that the company now has three team members holding both a CTS- I and a CTS- D certification.

   

• Vaddio Hires Videoconferencing Leader

  Vaddio has retained videoconferencing alumnus Michael Baker to handle strategic vertical market development.

   

• RTI Names Eastern Sales Manager

  Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI) announced that it has named Trevor de Maat as the company's eastern regional sales manager.

   

• Da-Lite Adds Sales Consultant

  Da-Lite Screen Company announced the addition of Karl Kollar to its sales consultant team.

   

• Visual Acuity Brings in New Designer

  As the company becomes engaged in more projects around the world, independent media and communications technology consultancy Visual Acuity has made a key new appointment to strengthen its technical system design resource.

   

• Electro-Voice Brings in Respected Product Manager

  Bosch Security Systems' Communications Systems Division announced that Phillip Scobee will join the Electro-Voice team as product manager for Electro-Voice Concert Sound.

   

• Danley Sound Adds New System Designer

  Danley Sound Labs has added Chad Edwardson to its in-house team of engineers and system designers.

   

• EAW Taps Application Support Director

  EAW named Jerrold Stevens the director of the loudspeaker company's application support group (ASG). The announcement was made by Jeff Rocha, EAW vice president and general manager, and underscores EAW's commitment to customer support, education, and the ongoing development of market-driven...

   

• Magenta Research Finds its New President

  Magenta Research, which makes signal distribution and switching products, announced the appointment of Kevin Prince to the previously vacant position of company president.