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Auerbach Pollock Friedlander Names Patrick Markle Chief Administrative Officer

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SAN FRANCISCO – Auerbach Pollock Friedlander named Patrick Markle chief administrative officer. He will oversee the theatre, media facilities and lighting consulting firm’s administrative operations and participate in strategic planning, marketing and public relations.

“We are delighted to welcome Patrick Markle,” said Len Auerbach, founding principal. “We have worked with him as both a client and collaborator on a number of projects over the years. He brings decades of experience to the team at Auerbach Pollock Friedlander and Auerbach Glasow French and we look forward to his participation in the firm’s continued growth.”

A graduate of both the Yale School of Drama and the Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Clown College, Markle has led production and technical operations at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he supervised the engineering and construction of stage scenery for all new productions; the Santa Fe Opera, where he was the production director and the project manager during construction of their new opera house, and the San Francisco Opera, where he managed all divisions of the production department.

Markle also co-founded Figaro Systems Inc., a provider of multi-lingual text captioning displays for the performing arts. Most recently, Markle served as managing director for Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco. There he provided budget and business management, administrative oversight of sales and marketing, and oversight of external affairs and community relations.

For more information, please visit www.auerbachconsultants.com.