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EVS has appointed three new senior members of staff to further expand its global senior team. Henry Alexander has been appointed as senior vice president entertainment and news division. Stephane Jauroyou joins as EVS’ VP of sales for the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China, and Robin Adams comes on board as VP Channel for Europe Middle [...]

Staging Connections has appointed Technical Director, Daniel Lourenco to the Head of Production, Sydney. Having started with Staging Connections in 1998 as a Trainee, Daniel has progressed in his career from a crew member, through to Technical Director, and will now lead the team as Head of Production. Daniel’s career with Staging Connections has seen [...]

Satellite communications specialist, Newtec, has appointed former Technicolor, Alcatel-Lucent, and ECI Telecom executive Mario Querner as the company’s new VP Asia. He has more than 25 years of international business experience in telecommunications and media working in both Europe and Asia. He will lead the business activities for Newtec in Asia and the Pacific. Prior [...]

Quinto Communications has announced the appointment of Peter Fullerton as Sales Manager for their New Zealand office. Widely known and respected throughout the region, Pete will be based in Auckland, and will provide pre- and post-technical sales support to the wide range of Quinto’s New Zealand customers. Prior to moving to Quinto. Pete was a [...]

Harris Broadcast has divided its APAC sales management team into North APAC and South APAC sub-regions. JiShun Mei will now act as vice president of sales for all product lines in the newly created North APAC region, while Joe Khodeir has been appointed vice president of sales for all product lines in South APAC. The [...]

Digital media integration specialist, Digistor Pty Ltd, has appointed Sarah Palmer as Manager of the Digistor Training Centre.The Digistor Training Centre provides an extensive list of classroom-style training at the company’s state-of-the-art facilities in Sydney and in other states, plus training at customers’ own premises customised to specific needs.With over sixteen years digital media business [...]

The Isilon Storage Division of EMC², a leading US storage technology firm, has added media industry veteran Charles Sevior to the Office of CTO. He will focus on M&E, Life Sciences, Healthcare, EIS and other specific technology sectors across the Asia-Pacific-Japan region.Sevior has had almost three decades of engineering experience, most recently as head of [...]

The Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, and the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Penny Wong, have announced that Siobhan McKenna has been appointed Chair of NBN Co. This is despite Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation being identified with a lack of diversity in the Australian media via the [...]

Digital connectivity solutions provider Gefen has announced the recent appointment of Rod Sommerich to the Asia Pacific region. As the Far East and Pacific Rim Regional Sales Director, he will oversee all sales efforts throughout the region.Sommerich brings an extensive background in the professional audio/video and broadcast markets, having worked in these industries since 1984. [...]

Len Wallis, CEDIA Asia Pacific chairman has announced the appointment of Clare Ward as the incoming executive director for the region following the resignation of Stephen Miller.  “We know that Stephen and Clare have worked alongside each other with CEDIA’s Global Alignment in the past year to create a strong business plan to ensure the [...]