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CI NEWS IN BRIEF RECENT STORIES PEOPLE AND PLACES WHAT'S NEW
PEOPLE + PLACES
Frank
Solutionz, Inc.,
recently welcomed
Michael
Frank as the new
president of the
Southeast. Frank will be taking
the reins from Barry Goldin,
who will retire at the end of
May after a successful career
spanning 40 years. He will
oversee 6 sales offices in
Georgia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
Frank brings more than 30
years of sales and leadership
experience in the audiovisual
industry. As sales director for
eastern Americas for Biamp
Systems, he is credited with
double-digit sales growth in the
past 10 years in regional and
territorial markets.
Adams
PPDS recently
announced the
appointment of
Scott Adams as
its new director of
hospitality.
Adams, a U.S. Air Force
veteran, has held several senior
sales management roles during
his career, including Philips,
having originally joined the
company in 1995 and spending
15 years as a regional sales
manager.
Franklin
Listen Technologies
Corporation
has promoted
Kim Franklin
to vice president
of marketing.
In this role, Franklin is
responsible for leading brand
strategy, corporate marketing
and communications, digital
marketing and public relations.
Dozier
B-Tech AV
Mounts recently
announced
Tiffany Dozier as
regional VP of
sales for the region and
bringing with her 25 years of
experience in the AV industry.
Dozier previously worked
with Premier Mounts for 24
years as their executive VP of
sales. She will be working on
developing and leading the
efforts of internal and external
sales teams.
Tunnicliffe
Group One
Limited recently
welcomed James
Tunnicliffe, who
joins the team as
technical support engineer.
In his new role, Tunnicliffe
will be responsible for providing
phone- and IP-based
product troubleshooting and
repair coordination, onsite
service and maintenance calls,
system design assistance and
trainings, and liaising with Calrec's
headquarters in Hebden
Bridge, England.
Garcia
Digital Watchdog
(DW)
announced the
appointment of
three new sales
engineers and one new field
engineer to support the DW
sales team and partner
integrators.
As a DW field engineer,
Julian Garcia is primarily responsible
to help with technical
support escalations. In addition,
as DW sales engineers,
Joseph Koehl, Bobby Dick
and Rafael Saenz help with
the planning of systems and
overcoming technical issues
with existing systems, create
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A U.S. Marine Corps veteran,
most recently Garcia was
technical support specialist III
at Panasonic Avionics where
he attended to in-flight aircraft
experiencing connectivity
issues. He previously oversaw
and trained technical support
personnel on CCTV products as
Technical Support Supervisor at
Hunt Electronics.
Koehl will have a primary
focus as sales engineer for the
central U.S. Most recently, he
was product support manager
for Stanley Security, where he
selected and validated potential
product solutions.
Dick will have a primary
focus as sales engineer for the
southern U.S. Most recently,
he was with Hikvision USA
where he served in multiple
capacities including sales engineer,
product test engineer
and director of learning and
development.
Saenz will have a primary
focus as sales engineer for the
western U.S. Most recently, he
worked at Hikvision in technical
Support. His experience
is in technical support and
customer service.
Riedel Communications
recently announced the appointment
of Trip Wootten as
regional sales manager for the
southeastern U.S. Wootten will
lead direct and channel sales
for a market that includes Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina and North Carolina.
Wootten brings more than a
decade of sales, sales support,
and sales engineering
experience to his new position
at Riedel. Most recently, he
oversaw a large Southeastern
sales territory as regional account
manager for Grass Valley,
a role he also previously filled
for Telestream.
Cohen
TVU Networks
recently announced
the
appointment of
David Cohen,
former VP of marketing
communications at Grass Valley,
as the company's new global VP
of strategic marketing.
In his new role, Cohen will
develop and oversee the
marketing strategy for TVU Networks
and ensure a cohesive
approach across the company's
worldwide digital, sales
enablement, branding and
communications efforts.
His primary, initial focus
will be on accelerating the
transition of the TVU Networks
brand identity as the company
delivers on its cloud-based
production and media supply
chain vision.
Control Concepts
recently
welcomed
Grupp
Victoria Grupp,
the newest
member of our technical team.
With expertise in control
system programming, audio
DSP configuration, and systems
engineering, Grupp joins a
diverse group of software
developers and control system.
After amassing certifications
in several control system platforms
such as Crestron, AMX,
and Extron along with audio
proficiency in Biamp Tesira and
QSC Q-SYS, Grupp has taken
on the role of learning new control
platforms and supporting
control system module/driver/
plugin development.
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