ON THE MOVE PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS A.C. Lighting Group recently opened A.C. Lighting Asia KK, the <strong>com</strong>pany’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.<strong>com</strong> Cinelease Inc., a motion picture equipment rental <strong>com</strong>pany 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 <strong>com</strong>pany’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 <strong>com</strong>pany’s manufacturing manager. His responsibilities Ad info:http:// www.plsn.<strong>com</strong>/instant-info 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 <strong>com</strong>pany 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.<strong>com</strong> and LEDsource.<strong>com</strong> 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 <strong>com</strong>pany as dealer project managers. Stock is formerly a project manager with Grand Stage Company. He will oversee the in-house <strong>com</strong>pletion 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 <strong>com</strong>pany. He <strong>com</strong>es 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 <strong>com</strong>panies, TC Hasemer and HME, are both based in New South Wales. Lex Products, has promoted Mike Scala, the leader of the <strong>com</strong>pany’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 <strong>com</strong>pany. 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 <strong>PLSN</strong>, 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 <strong>com</strong>pany’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 <strong>com</strong>pany’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. 20 <strong>PLSN</strong> SEPTEMBER 2008
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