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

Producer/engineer Bil VornDick has been elected chairman of the Audio Engineering Society's Nashville chapter…Euphonix (Palo Alto, CA) board of directors member Martin Kloiber was promoted to the executive VP of technology…Solid State Logic has hired Dave Christenson and Eric Rosenberg to be the manager of post-production for North America and Western regional manager of broadcast sales, respectively…DMOD (Boston) announced new hires: Ted Healey, VP of engineering, and former Avid Technology VP of sales and marketing Martin Vann, VP of sales…With previous stints at Digidesign, Otari Corporation and WaveFrame, Doug Wood joins Grace Design (Boulder, CO) as VP of sales and marketing…The new national sales manager over at Event Electronics (Santa Barbara, CA) is David Hetrick…Provider of production music FirstCom Music (Dallas) promoted Michael J. Baer to general sales manager…SEK'D, Swissonic, Friend-Chip, Music and More and Sommer Cable America have joined forces with the Hollywood-based team of Audio Intervisual Design and Developing Technology Distributors to form a new company, plus24 (West Hollywood). Plus24 is now the international distributor for Brainstorm Electronics, dB Technologies and SEK'D, and the American distributor for Friend-Chip, Music and More, Sanken Microphones, Swissonic and Sommer Cable. In addition, the office has moved to: 1155 N. La Brea Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90038; 323/845-1174; toll-free 800/330-7753…New distribution deals: Midiman/M-Audio (Arcadia, CA) will begin distributing a new line of Groove Tubes Microphones; and Audio Distributors International (Boucherville, Quebec) will begin Canadian distribution for Future Sonics Inc. (Pineville, PA)…Change of year means change your name: AZ-IZ Case Company (Culver City, CA) has changed its name to ProCases Inc.; Ego Sys adopted the shortened version of its name, ESI. Its new headquarters is at 3003 N. First St., Suite 303, San Jose, CA 95134; 408/519-5774; fax 408/519-5786; and Bang & Olufsen brought in the new year with a new corporate identity of Bang & Olufsen ICEpower a/s.

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