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Bosch Communications
Systems
has announced the
addition of Johnson
Knowles to its team
as eld applications
engineer. Prior to
this appointment,
Knowles spent 18
years with leading Johnson Knowles
Dallas-based architectural acoustics design
and consulting rm Russ Berger Design
Group — a company he helped found — and
brings experience and expertise to his new
position, primarily in the eld of architectural
engineering and the design of broadcast and
recording facilities.
Knowles also has experience in designing
broadcast cabling systems for sports facilities.
Some of Knowles’ major clients include
NBC, ABC, NPR, CMT, MTV, NFL Films, World
Wrestling Entertainment and Sony Music. He
has undertaken studio design work for a wide
range of artists, including Whitney Houston,
Don Henley, Steve Miller, John Fogerty, Mariah
Carey and Michael Bolton. Knowles will
be based in Dallas.
Crown Audio has named Matt Bush to
the position of vice president of sales starting
in November. Bush joins Crown Audio from
sister company, Harman Music Group, where
he was vice president of operations, and takes
the position previously held by Scott Robbins,
14
On the Move
who was promoted
to vice president of
sales for Harman Professional.
In his new
role, Bush will direct
worldwide sales operations
from Crown
Audio’s Elkhart, Ind.headquarters,
and
he will report direct- Matt Bush
ly to Mark Graham,
president of Crown
Audio.
Bush joined The
Harman Music Group
in 1987. He has
served in leadership
roles in engineering,
manufacturing and
operations and has
more than 24 years of experience in the design,
manufacture, service and supply chain of electronic
products. Bush has served as the vice
president of operations of HMG since 2001, is
the architect of HMG’s hybrid manufacturing
and global supply chain strategies and directed
all supply chain functions, including a U.S.
manufacturing facility, o -shore manufacturing,
customer service and distribution centers
in the U.S., Asia and Europe.
Crown Audio has also announced the
promotion of Bradford Benn to director of application
engineering. In this role, Benn will
be responsible for leading application engi-
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neering e orts in the U.S. and internationally.
He will report to Marc Kellom, vice president
of marketing. Previously, Benn served as business
development manager where he focused
on the creation of sales tools and was
heavily involved in the evolution of System
Architect and HiQnet. He began at Crown as a
product integration manager and has served
in other roles, including director of product
application support.
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promoted to more senior sales positions
within the company. During this time, he
helped grow the sales in all geographic and
vertical markets and was responsible for organizing
and managing sales partners across
the globe. An early initiative that Robbins will
spearhead will be the start-up of Harman Professional’s
new sales o ces in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ramzi Shakra
JBL Professional
has announced the
has recently joined
appointment of Rich-
Electrosonic Inc.
ard Ruse as western
as senior market-
regional sales direcing
manager. He will
tor. Ruse, a pro audio
be in charge of the
veteran with exten-
marketing e ort in
sive industry experi-
the U.S. and also supence
in recording, MI,
Bradford Benn porting the rest of
xed install and tour Richard Ruse
Electrosonic Group Ramzi Shakra
sound, joins JBL Professional e ective immedi-
worldwide. Formerly
ately and reports to Stephen Morris, JBL Pro-
marketing director
fessional executive vice president of sales.
of Doremi Labs, he
Ruse joins JBL Professional from Com-
has experience in the
pass Business Solutions, a sales and mar-
strategic positioning
keting consultancy he founded and led.
and management
There, as president/owner, he supported
of technology prod-
an array of pro audio video and technoloucts.gy
clients. Prior to Compass, Ruse was di-
In other news,
rector of worldwide sales and marketing
Leonardo Freitas Leonardo Freitas
for KRK studio monitors, and before that,
has been appointed to the new position of director of sales, independent accounts
associate vice president of product distribu- at Line 6. Ruse was also worldwide sales
tion. He will be based in Burbank and report and marketing at SWR Engineering and
directly to Electrosonic President Jim Bowie. Eastern/Western’s regional sales manager
Freitas was formerly regional director for Latin
America at Tandberg.
at Alesis Studio Electronics.
Yamaha Com-
Harman Promercial
Audio
fessional has an-
Systems, Inc. has
nounced the promo-
announced the aption
of Scott Robbins
pointment of Jona-
from senior vice presthan
Peirson to the
ident of sales, Crown
position of district
Audio, to group-
manager responwide
vice president
sible for the Cali-
of sales with the
fornia and Hawaii Jonathan Peirson
speci c mandate Scott Robbins
sales territory. In his new position, Peirson
to work with brand-level sales executives to reports directly to Paul Furtkamp, national
strengthen existing sales operations and to sales manager.
grow Harman Professional’s sales presence in Prior to joining the YCAS sales team,
emerging markets. The announcement was Peirson most recently held the position
made by Michael MacDonald, Harman Profes- of director of sales, western region for
sional executive vice president of marketing JBL Professional, where he worked since
and sales, to whom Robbins reports.
1995. Prior to JBL, Jon held various po-
Robbins holds a bachelors degree in Orsitions at Anchor Audio, including vice
ganizational Management and joined Crown president of marketing where he began
Audio’s service department in 1987. He was his career in 1984.
Common Courtesy
At the end of a gig, it is a nice courtesy if you zero-out the console to leave
it for the next user. Of course, if it is very likely you will be the next user, you may
gamble on leaving things half-zeroed so that EQ settings and preamp gains are left
for the next performance. Of course, a good and e cient console operator should
be able to dial in EQ and rough gains very quickly from a zero-ed out console.
And zeroing before the gig helps familiarize yourself with the console if you
have not been on that brand/model for a long while. And feeling all
those controls and faders may provide a clue how well maintained
the console is before mixing. Loose controls and sticky faders may
provide a scenario of how to defensively drive the console to avoid
crackles and pops before the show goes on.
— From Mark Amundson’s “Theory and Practice” column in the
August issue.