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ON THE MOVE
PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS
A.C. Lighting
Group recently
opened A.C. Lighting
Asia KK, the company’s
first office in
Asia. The subsidiary
is headed by Ruilin
Zhang. The new office
is located at 103 Ruilin Zhang
Angel Building, 1-10-20 Shiba Hinotsume,
Kawaguchi-City, Saitama 333-0852 Japan; tel:
048.475.9377, fax: 048.475.9355, email: asia@
aclighting.com
Cinelease Inc., a motion picture equipment
rental company that added a theatrical
division in 2001, has signed a 10-year,
$14 million lease for 155,000 square feet of
space in the Los Angeles area. The site was
previously occupied by a furniture retailer.
Creative Stage
Lighting appointed
Bill Kaechele as the
company’s vice president
of customer
services. Kaechele
will oversee CSL’s
sales, accounting
and operations Bill Kaechele
departments as well as various information
technology functions. CSL has also appointed
John Fieldstadt as the company’s
manufacturing manager. His responsibilities
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include overseeing
CSL’s manufacturing
department and directing
the production
of CSL products,
including Dura-Flex
cables and Entertainment
Power Systems
products.
John Fieldstadt
Event Innovation, a Washington, D.C.-
based enterprise software company for sports
arenas and performing arts theatres, announced
the appointments of Frank Ganis as vice president
of business development and Kent Leonard
as vice president of product delivery.
Fuller Street Productions has moved to a
larger facility. The new address is 10702 Hathaway
Drive, Unit #2, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670.
GearSource.com and LEDsource.com
named Betsy Torres (formerly Halpin) as CFO/
COO. Torres had spent nearly 10 years working
for lighting industry firms as a controller.
IATSE announced the retirement of Thomas
C. Short, who had been president of the organization
since 1994. Matthew D. Loeb was elected
by the IATSE’s board to assume the role of president.
Craig Carlson has been elected vice president.
Short had been a member of IATSE for
over 40 years and an elected official for the past
21 years. Loeb served as IATSE’s International
Representative in June, 1994 and as IATSE’s first
division director of Motion Picture and Television
Production. He was elected International
Vice President in 2002 and 2004 and had served
as the chairman of IATSE’s East Coast Council for
more than 14 years. Carlson, who started out as
a third-generation stagehand with Chicago’s
Lyric Opera in 1979, assumes the position that
Loeb had held with the organization.
J. R. Clancy has
added two dealer
project managers and
a technical designer
at its corporate headquarters.
Geoff Stock
and Bridget Cox join
the company as dealer
project managers.
Stock is formerly
a project manager
with Grand Stage
Company. He will
oversee the in-house
completion of dealer
projects. Cox came
to Syracuse from the
New York City Opera,
where she served as
assistant technical
director. She will also
work with dealers
on rigging projects.
Charles Rouse has
been appointed technical
designer for the
company. He comes
to J. R. Clancy from Schott North America. In
his new position, Rouse will design the plan
and layout of detailed rigging systems.
Kinesys has appointed two Australian distributors
for its hoist controllers and control software
products. The two companies, TC Hasemer
and HME, are both based in New South Wales.
Lex Products,
has promoted Mike
Scala, the leader of
the company’s ERP
i m p l e m e n t a t i o n
team, from director
of operations to vice
president of operations.
Geoff Stock
Bridget Cox
Charles Rouse
Mike Scala
Liberty Wire & Cable, a supplier of products
for the AV industry, has promoted John D. Dace
from vice president of sales to general manager.
LSC Lighting Systems, an Australiabased
manufacturer of lighting control systems,
recently moved to a larger facility. The
new address is Building 3, 66-74 Micro Circuit,
Dandenong South, Victoria 3175, Australia,
tel: +61 3 9702 8000, fax: +61 3 9702 8466.
Multi-Lite International Lamp
Sales announced that Lori Mehrkens has
joined the company. Mehrkens has more than
25 years of experience specifying and selling
lighting and architectural lamps.
Production Resource
Group (PRG)
has named Vickie
Claiborne as a console
and media server
product specialist.
Claiborne, who is also
a contributing writer
to PLSN, will be based Vickie Claiborne
out of PRG’s Las Vegas office.
Neo-Neon, a manufacturer of LED
lighting products, has named Joe Golden
as technical support manager.
Proel America LLC is the name of a
Miami-based subsidiary established by
Proel S.p.A., an Italian-based manufacturer
of AV and lighting systems. Pictured
here are, from left, Melissa Zagonel, national
sales manager, Massimo Signor,
managing director of Proel S.p.A. and
Daniel Costa Salomao, vice president of
Proel America LLC.
Rose Brand, has
appointed Michael
P. Reed as product
manager. Reed has
previously worked
with The New Jersey
Shakespeare Festival,
Plays in the Park,
The Whole Theatre, Michael P. Reed
the George St. Playhouse and The Paper Mill
Playhouse.
Show Distribution Group Inc., which
distributes Chain Master and Prolyte products
in the U.S., has appointed Sebastien
Richard as rental manager.
Sparks, an event
marketing and custom
retail fixture
agency, announced
the appointment
of Carol Swain who
has joined as senior
account director.
Swain will be
working from the
company’s Philadelphia
headquarters.
Sparks also recently
appointed Brian
Miller as director of
strategy and consulting.
Tim Hunter Design,
an architectural
lighting design firm,
has appointed Bill
Groener president
and COO. Groener,
currently the president
of ESTA, is a former
vice president/
general manager of Production Resource
Group (PRG).
Vitec Group has
named Bob Romero
global customer operations
director of
its Clear-Com Communication
Systems
division. Romero
will lead and manage
the company’s
Carol Swain
Brian Miller
Bill Groener
Bob Romero
worldwide service and support teams, including
its application engineering, technical
support and service and repair teams
based in the U.S. and U.K.
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