John McMahon
DTS (Calabasas, CA) promotes Brian Towne to executive VP/COO…Shure (Niles, IL) news: Ron Thompson, senior VP of operations/COO, and Avi Vaidya, senior VP of product development/CTO…New VP worldwide sales and support at Audinate (Portland, OR) is John McMahon…Andrew Calvo fills the newly created VP sales and marketing position at Keith McMillen Instruments (Berkeley, CA), while Christen McFarland is the new marketing director…Focusrite Novation (Buckinghamshire, UK) adds Ralph Goldheim, director of U.S. sales…Karl Chapman joins Midas Klark Teknik (Worcestershire, England) as sales manager, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) while Erikson Audio is tapped as sole distributor in Canada…In Elias Arts’ New York office is Kala Sherman, executive producer…Oxford, UK–based Sonnox brings on Ruth Almgill, support engineer…Distribution deals: Primacoustic (Vancouver) taps RCK Marketing (Northern California, Northern Nevada) and Metro Joe’s Marketing (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas); dBTechnologies will be rep’d in South Korea by Dongyang Tave; and Alliance Audio Group will handle NEXO (Buena Park, CA) gear in Southern California, Southern Nevada and Arizona.