On the Move

VIENNA, Austria – AKG, which was founded in Vienna in 1947 and became part of Harman in 1994, continues under the umbrella of Harman, which was acquired by Samsung earlier this year. But as Harman continues to pare back on its traditional operations, with a restructuring plan announced last month that will trim 650 jobs in the U.S. in Europe by mid-2018, a group of AKG employees opted to leave the conglomerate and start up a new Vienna-based audio company called Austrian Audio.

BANGKOK – Adamson Systems Engineering has strengthened its foothold in Southeast Asia with the addition of SONOS LIBRA as its new Thai distributor.

Allen & Heath USA announced the appointment of Jeff Hawley to its U.S. marketing team under the American Music & Sound (AM&S) umbrella.

PORT PERRY, Ontario – Adamson Systems Engineering announced a new distribution partnership with Benum Sweden.

IPSWICH, U.K. and MARLBORO TOWNSHIP, NJ — Celestion announced the appointment of Darrell Vasquez as Business Development Executive.

HANNOVER, Germany – Coda Audio named David “Webby” Webster director of global marketing. Webster comes to Coda Audio after serving as co-founder of DiGiCo. Prior to DiGiCo, Webster worked on behalf of Klark Teknik and Midas.

SEATTLE, WA – LMG, LLC, a national provider of video, audio, lighting, and LED support based in Orlando, FL, is pleased to announce the hiring of David Taylor as Account Executive on the firm’s show team in the Seattle office.

ORLANDO, FL – Chris Caiazzo has been appointed to Professional Wireless Systems’ team as technical sales manager.

BUENA PARK, CA —Yamaha Professional Audio division (PAD) has announced the appointment of Bob Habel to the position of district manager for Commercial Audio sales. He will cover the important U.S. southeast market previously held by Brian Coviello, who has recently retired.

SWEDEN – Kling & Freitag just announced AV partner AMBISONIC AB as its new sales partner for Sweden.

MONTBONNOT, France — Jérémie Weber was appointed as Digigram’s new CEO.

BANGALORE, India – QSC announced its expanded presence in the SAARC region (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) with a regional office in Bangalore, India and its first appearance at InfoComm India. QSC offers full operations, sales and support, system application design, as well as training throughout the region.