On the Move

[caption id="attachment_276561" align="alignnone" width="800"]Travis Kelly joins Hughie's as Director of Video Services[/caption]

CLEVELAND – Hughie’s Event Production Services is thrilled to announce the hiring of Travis Kelly, a well-known Video Veteran in the large scale LED wall industry in the Midwest region. His skills in both technical direction and producing events as well as knowledge in large LED walls, digital HD video switching, cameras, recording solutions and components will be a welcome addition to the current staff.

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[caption id="attachment_276548" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chris Patton joins ETC[/caption]

MIDDLETON, WI – On May 1st, Chris Patton officially joined ETC as the Marketing product manager for architectural luminaires. Patton has been an unofficial part of the ETC family since 2014, when ETC and GDS formed a partnership for the American production and distribution of ArcSystem, BluesSystem and CueSystem families. As a GDS employee, Patton contracted with ETC to serve as the marketing product manager for GDS by ETC products. In his new role, Patton will continue to oversee these marketing efforts, while also working to bring ETC’s unique fixture technologies into the commercial sector.

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[caption id="attachment_276531" align="alignnone" width="500"]Michele Ferreira [/caption]

LOS ANGELES – Electrosonic continues to expand its staff roster with the hiring of Michele Ferreira as Director of Sales – West.  She will be based in the San Francisco Bay area leading the west coast sales team and growing Electrosonic’s business in the region. Ferreira has had a successful career in the professional AV industry, most recently as General Manager of the Technology Group at One Workplace in Santa Clara, California with dotcoms and other leading Bay Area businesses.

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[caption id="attachment_276466" align="alignnone" width="761"]Martin Drumm[/caption]

FRANKFURT – Designer and product specialist Martin Drumm joins the Penn Elcom team, bringing his vast experience, zest for innovation and imaginative flair to the company’s legendary flight case and racks hardware division, where he will be designing and develop cool new products and bringing them to the market. Says Roger Willems, Chairman of Penn Elcom, “It is a fantastic opportunity for Penn Elcom’s global operation to have someone of Martin’s caliber on-board and we are all very excited! 

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[caption id="attachment_276450" align="alignnone" width="428"]Joel Beauchamp and Christelle Chevrette join the team at XYZ[/caption]

MONTRÉAL – Jacques Larue and Éric Cyr, partners at XYZ Cultural Technology, are pleased to announce the promotion of Joël Beauchamp, CTS, to director of operations. Beauchamp has proven to be a tremendous asset to the team since he was hired as director of the installation department in November 2016. He has implemented new project and human resource management processes, as well as an after-sales program.

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[caption id="attachment_276444" align="alignnone" width="800"]Rufus and Celeste Warren in 2016[/caption]

CHICAGO – Rufus Warren, Founder/CEO of Design & Drafting, announced today that the company is ceasing all further development of their LD Assistant™ lighting design software. Design & Drafting will continue to offer technical support to existing customers. The advanced design tools found in LD Assistant will remain viable for the next decade.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Staging Concepts, a provider of portable staging equipment, will open a new location in Minneapolis on May 11. The new facility is at 8400 Wyoming Avenue North, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55445.

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ARGYLE, TX — GoVision named Todd Wickstrum vice president, design & engineering. Wickstrum brings nearly 20 years of engineering experience with Peterbilt Motors in Denton, Texas, to his new role at GoVision.

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OREM, UT and VANCOUVER, BC, Canada — Flex Rental Solutions, an internationally recognized provider of enterprise web-based rental management software for the AV, Event and Production Management industry, announced a new strategic partnership with CrewDriver, an app that facilitates scheduling for any company that routinely engages a pool of freelance workers as part of their service to customers.

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NEU-ANSPACH, Germany — The Adam Hall Group, a manufacturer and distributor providing event technology solutions to business customers worldwide, recentlhy added John Kaukis to its U.K. sales team.

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ANN ARBOR, MI – TLS Productions, Inc. announced that Sue McCloy, VP of Operations, has resigned from the company. “All of us at TLSP are sad to see Sue go, as Sue has been a valuable asset to the company for many years,” the company said, in a statement. McCloy joined TLS Productions, Inc. as Project Manager in 2002 and was promoted to VP of Operations in 2012.

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LONDON — Mojo Barriers promoted Kevin Thorborn to director of Mojo Barriers UK, effective April 24, 2017. He has served as UK manager for the company for the past 17 years

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