
Rik Kirby
Effective in the coming months at Guitar Center: Greg Trojan, CEO; Marty Albertson, former CEO, will remain as a non-executive Chairman of the Board…Jim Bailey is a new product manager at Aphex …New face at Fishman Acoustic Amplification is Ian Popken, director of product development…Renkus-Heinz promotes Rik Kirby to VP of sales and marketing…While packing boxes for its move to Charlotte, N.C., in early 2010, Neutrik promoted Thomas Chudyk to national sales manager and Chris Neethling to global accounts and business manager…Stacey Moran joins Blue Microphones as VP of marketing…Filling the newly created position of applications engineer, international, at Soundcraft Studer is Angel G. Perez…Distribution deals: One Systems names Richard Dean Associates for the New England region; handling API in Asia Pacific is Asia Pacific Media Group; Prism Sound names Moon Systems as exclusive distributor in Saudi Arabia; and Roland Systems Group taps Quantum Sales and Technology for Southern California/southern Nevada.