Gibson Guitar Announces Executive Appointments

Gibson Guitar Announces Executive Appointments

Gibson Guitar announced several key executive appointments this week. Joining the company as chief operating officer is William P. Antonace and as chief marketing officer is Steve Horn. Roxanne Khazarian has been named senior vice president, general counsel and secretary.

Antonace joins Gibson from Symrise Inc in Teterboro, N.J. where he served most recently at executive VP and COO, North America.
He will be based at the Gibson Guitar corporate headquarters in Nashville, Tenn.

Horn will be responsible for the management of key marketing functions within the organization including Creative Services, Marketing Administration, Events and Trade Shows, Product Management and the Gibson Web team. Horn comes to Gibson Guitar with over 20 years of marketing experience. Most recently he served as chief marketing officer for Coca-Cola Enterprises based in Atlanta for both domestic and international areas.

As the consulting attorney for the Corporate & Securities Group in the Legal Department at General Electric World Headquarters in Fairfield, Conn., Khazarian worked on special projects. She also served as vice president, general counsel at Kaplan, Inc. a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. She will work out of dual offices at the Gibson Guitar New York showroom located on West 54th Street and also at corporate headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee. No photo available.

Visit www.gibson.com for more information.