On the Move

WICHITA, KS — Galaxy Audio, which is marking its 35^th year in 2012, also named Yule Jabara, pictured here, as its Chief Executive Officer. Yule Jabara is taking over in the role previously held by Brock Jabara, his father, who invented the Hot Spot over 40 years ago and founded the company five years later.

NORTHRIDGE, CA— Soundcraft Studer named James Tunnicliffe field support and applications engineer for the Eastern U.S. In this position, Tunnicliffe will be primarily responsible for providing service support and technical and operational training for the Studer product line as well as Soundcraft’s lineup of digital audio consoles.

GARDEN GROVE, CA — Penn-Elcom, which featured Fane pro-audio and MI loudspeakers at NAMM 2012, named David Logan North America sales manager for the Fane product line.  Logan brings more than 40 years of experience, with previous positions at Hollywood Sound Systems, Westlake Audio and Alpine Car Audio. He can be contacted at [email protected].

HAMPSHIRE, U.K. — Audient and Sontronics have a new distribution partnership in the U.K. A new entity, Audient-Sontronics UK, will provide joint support for end users overseen by Audient’s U.K. sales manager, Gareth Williams (pictured, left), and centralized warehousing at Audient’s Hampshire headquarters. Service and support will continue to be handled at Sontronics’ headquarters in Dorset, and all press and marketing will be managed in-house by Sontronics’ marketing director, Lisa Coley.

LONDON – Electrosonic promoted James Sharp to account manager for corporate solutions. Sharp joined Electrosonic’s Edinburgh office in 2005 taking on the position of Internal Sales Support. During his six years with the company, Sharp has worked within the Corporate, Entertainment and Operations teams in both a sales and technical capacity. He was previously promoted from sales engineer to account manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

BANGALORE, India — Harman Professional promoted David McKinney to senior director, operations – India.  McKinney, an 11-year company veteran, established Harman’s Asia regional sales office in Kuala Lumpur.  Filling in for McKinney in Malaysia is Thomas Marcher, the newly-appointed director of sales for Harman’s sales office there.

LOVELAND, CO — Ultimate Support, a manufacturer of stands for the music industry, named Steffenee Copley, pictured left, international sales manager and Linnea Hallmark, pictured right, western accounts manager.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Harman Professional promoted Thomas Marcher to director of sales of its Asia regional sales office.  Marcher, a four-year Harman Professional veteran with extensive pro AV experience with other brands in the region, is responsible for sales, support and channel coordination reporting to Scott Robbins, Harman’s senior director, global sales.

BREA, CA — Altinex named Philadelphia-based Almo Professional A/V distributor of its computer video interfaces, distribution amplifiers, switchers, matrix switchers, software, and furniture connectivity products.