LAS VEGAS – Stage Technologies Limited Group CEO Mark Ager is relocating to the Las Vegas office, replacing Kevin Taylor, who left the company April 30. Since founding Stage Technologies with John Hastie in 1994, Ager has played a key role in the development of the Acrobat system, which allows multiple axes to be controlled from a single console, along with other advances in stage automation.
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LAS VEGAS – Stage Technologies Limited Group CEO Mark Ager is to relocate to the company’s Las Vegas office, effective April 30. Having established a group of operating companies worldwide, Ager’s move to the US will ensure the company’s continued focus on sales and rentals opportunities for live events and in theatres, opera houses and universities in the region. These are all sectors in which the company has completed many projects over the last 15 years, including multiple Cirque du Soleil resident shows in Las Vegas, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the recently opened Signature Center in New York, on which the company worked with theatre consultants Auerbach Pollock and Friedlander and main contractor iWeiss Theatrical Solutions.
In recent years Ager has led Stage Technologies with projects in Singapore, Macau and Saudi Arabia. He will continue to drive business around the globe from his new base. As well as managing the whole of the Stage Technologies Group, Ager will take over Kevin Taylor’s role as he is leaving the company effective April 30. Ager will join Stage Technologies’ well-established Las Vegas leadership team which includes Gemma Guy, who manages business development in the fixed installation and rental markets; Stephan Wood, in projects; and James “JT” Tomlinson, who oversees US operations.
Ager founded Stage Technologies in 1994 with John Hastie and has been the driving force behind many of the company’s award winning automation products including the Acrobat system, which allows multiple axes to be controlled from a single console. A pioneer in the stage automation industry from its earliest days 25 years ago, Ager continues to promote innovation at Stage Technologies. He is also in demand as a keynote speaker at industry conferences, having addressed audiences in London and Beijing over the last six months, and as a lecturer at various theatre colleges on theatre automation and stage engineering.
