On the Move

UK —After years of forging a successful distribution partnership in North America, Hitachi Europe has appointed Stampede Europe to serve as a distributor of its full range of ProAV display products in the UK. Effective immediately, the new agreement includes Hitachi Europe’s line of interactive large format display panels and its range of 2,500 through to 13,000 ANSI Lumens projectors.

LOS ANGELES – Electrosonic named Erika Kulbach Business Development Consultant and Sales Account Manager.  Based in the company’s Burbank, CA office, she will be responsible for seeking and developing new business and maintaining several key accounts under the direction of Vice President of Business Development, Chris Conte.

BREA, CA — 4Wall Entertainment Lighting, a national provider of stage and theatrical services, will acquire the assets of professional lighting, video, and staging provider Visions Lighting for an undisclosed sum. The current Visions Lighting headquarters in Brea, CA will be rebranded as 4Wall Orange County. 4Wall will also retain Visions’ staff, with Todd Roberts, who founded Visions Lighting in 1992, working as director of live events.

SOUTHFIELD, MI – ​Bluewater Technologies Group, Inc. announced that Josh Linkner has joined its Board of Directors. Linkner will assist the company’s board and senior leadership team with its strategy and execution in the rapidly growing experiential services market for live events and integration.

WILKES-BARRE, PA – Mountain Productions’ board of directors named Ricky Rose chief executive officer. Rose is an owner of the company and previously served as a staging supervisor and as director of international development. Mountain Productions’ chairman and president, Ronald W. Simms, lauded Rose as “an excellent complement to our established leadership team.” While noting further expansion plans in West Coast and international markets, Rose also credited the company’s solid foundation. “My family has owned and guided Mountain Productions for over 30 years, and it is an honor to work with our existing leadership team made up of industry veterans who have been at the company since the beginning.”

KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites noted the addition of lighting technicians Alex Becker and Jamie Sullivan to the company’s staff based at its headquarters location in Knoxville, TN. Becker and Sullivan are providing support by prepping sales installations, local touring shows and performing moving lights maintenance. They also cover all aspects of productions for events centering around the area.

SHELTON, CT — Lex Products named Leonard Miller vice president of sales. Miller comes to Lex Products after 12 years with Philips Entertainment’s Vari-Lite and Strand Lighting divisions. He has also served as a sales manager for Barbizon Lighting in Dallas and a regional manager for Kohler Rental Power Services. Prior to that, he worked for Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Walt Disney World, and a number of cruise ship lines. Leonard also serves on the board of directors as a member of the faculty of the non-profit Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas (SILV) and has been a past Director at Large for USITT.

INDIANAPOLIS — Tway Lifting Products, founded in 1945, has been supplying its steel cables to other companies in the entertainment sector in recent years. This year, veteran rigger Albert West has been overseeing the company’s new push with a new line of products aimed at meeting the needs of entertainment production and rigging companies.

UTRECHT, The Netherlands – Marc van der Wel, longstanding director of business development for Ampco Flashlight Group and also director of sales and marketing for XLNT CyberMotion, announced that he is stepping down from both positions. He will be joining broadcast and media solutions provider NEP The Netherlands (part of NEP Group Inc.) as director of sales. His new role will commence on Oct. 1.

WESTFORD, MA.— Artel Video Systems, a leading provider of IP- and fiber-based media transport solutions, named Rafael Fonseca vice president and director of product management. Fonseca brings significant experience in executive management, product management and marketing, and sales at established and startup companies.

NASHVILLE, TN – LD Chris Lisle has signed an exclusive management deal with Alpha Sports + Entertainment, LLC.  Lisle is the first signee under the company’s new division that will provide management services for its entertainment clients along with the traditionally provided legal representation.

LOS ANGELES – VER opened a full-support lighting department in their London branch. The expansion includes the appointment of David March as Head of Lighting for VER UK and sister company Aurora. VER also named Craig Hancock, Tim Massey, Ben Taylor and Joe Marter as Senior Lighting Project Managers.