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

With 25 years as a producer and recording engineer, Keith Olsen has been promoted from Mackie's (Woodinville, WA) director of recording product development to corporate director of global recording product and market development…Shure (Evanston, IL) announced new managing directors: Mark Brunner will manage the newly created musical instrument and touring sound business unit, and Rob Cappucci will oversee the newly created sound contracting and broadcast business unit…Soundcraft's (Hertfordshire, England) and BSS Audio's (Hertfordshire, England) new centralized communications department will be headed by Dave Neal, marketing and communications manager…D. Dino Virella accepted the national sales manager position at Fostex America (Norwalk, CA)…After a six-year stint at New York City's Sterling Sound, Paul Angelli joins DVDLabs' (Cambridge, MA) engineering staff as lead engineer…Doug Osborne joined Martinsound (Alhambra, CA) as director of sales and marketing…Sara Griggs is the new director of marketing and communications at Alesis (Santa Monica, CA)…Ego Sys (Santa Clara, CA) welcomed Wendy Wild to the technology director position. Planning the marketing and advertising needs for both Ego Sys and Audiotrak (Seoul, Korea) will be JJ Jenkins, marketing and communications director…Mark Graham is Crown International's (Elkhart, IN) new VP of marketing…New distribution deals: Digidesign (Daly City, CA) has been appointed exclusive distributor of the Waves TDM product line in Asia; Midiman has assumed exclusive distribution responsibilities for Ableton's (Berlin, Germany) software products in the U.S., Canada and the UK; Transamerica Audio Group (Las Vegas) has picked up high-end manufacturer Sequerra Audio Labs (Stamford, CT); HHB Communications USA (New York City) adds Audio Geer Inc. (Huntington Beach, CA) to its team, representing the company in Southern California, southern Nevada and Arizona; Nexo USA (San Rafael, CA) sound reinforcement products will now be handled in New York City and the Mountain states by Metro North Marketing and Warman Marketing (Broomfield, CO), respectively; and Bryston/PMC (Ontario, Canada) appointed Secom (Atlanta) to cover Southeastern sales in North and South Carolinas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.

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