Nov 1, 2002 12:00 PM, COMPILED BY SARAH BENZULY

Mackie Designs (Woodinville, WA) has named Gregory W. Riker, a director at the company since 1998, chairman of the Board of Directors, succeeding founder Gregory C. Mackie, who was named Chairman Emeritus and will remain a director…The new general manager over at Crest Audio (Fair Lawn, NJ) is Richard (Rick) Gentry…Former senior VP of operations at Universal Studios, Don Potts brings his experience in the amusement and entertainment industry to Technomedia Solutions (Orlando) as COO…Brian Divine returns to Crown International (Elkhart, IN) in the marketing communications manager position. In other company announcements, Nick Owen has recently been hired to fill the sales director position for Europe/UK, Middle East and Africa customers…QSC Audio (Costa Mesa, CA) new appointments: Barry Ferrell, senior product development manager; Francois Godfrey, cinema market manager; and Karl Moet, product application specialist…Mark Phillips has been promoted to the newly created position of product orientation manger of Fostex America (Norwalk, CA), where he will train the company's reps and dealers, as well as ongoing customer support activities…Overseeing all of Disc Maker's (Pennsauken, NJ) sales operations nationwide is David Olinsky. In other company news, Healy Peck has been brought onboard as the new outbound telesales manager, where he will be responsible for the startup and launch of the company's new Outbound Telesales Program… Patrick O'Neal is now responsible for sales and marketing for all of Terrasonde's (Boulder, CO) product lines…Jumping over from Kurzweil Music Systems, David Fox joins Sonic Network Inc. (Arlington, MA) as the new manager of sales and marketing…Audio Visual Innovations (Tampa) has brought onboard Alyson Homenuk and Bobby Greene, regional director of business development for Florida's west coast and senior account manager, respectively.

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