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People May 4, 2014

Avid Appoints Smith CMO

Avid® has announced that marketing executive Jennifer Smith has been named senior vice president and chief marketing officer (CMO), based in the company’s Burlington, Massachusetts headquarters.Reporting directly to Avid president…

MMR Staff
May 4, 2014
People April 28, 2014

Roland Announces New Sales Managers

Roland Corporation U.S. announces the new appointments of Richard Katz as regional sales manager for the Southeast region and Luis Aguilar as the district sales manager for the northern Midwest…

MMR Staff
Apr 28, 2014
People April 28, 2014

Fender Names Roback President

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) has announced that Bob Roback has joined FMIC as president and has also joined the company’s Board of Directors. Roback has extensive experience as an…

MMR Staff
Apr 28, 2014
People April 13, 2014

Smith Promoted to N. American Sales Manager at Zildjian

The Avedis Zildjian Company has announced the promotion of Jerry Smith to North American sales manager effective April 1, 2014.In this newly created position, Jerry will report directly to Andy…

MMR Staff
Apr 13, 2014
People April 13, 2014

Fender CEO Larry Thomas to Retire

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) has announced the upcoming retirement of CEO Larry Thomas, effective May 31, 2014. Thomas was appointed to the FMIC Board of Directors in 2009 and later…

MMR Staff
Apr 13, 2014
People April 8, 2014

TC Group Appoints New Senior Clinician

TC Group Americas has recently appointed Russell Gray as Senior Clinician - Guitar and Bass, for the MI market. Russell Gray is an accomplished Toronto based guitar player currently performing…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2014
People April 8, 2014

Aronoff Joins Evans Drumheads

Evans has signed one of the world’s most influential and in-demand drummers, Kenny Aronoff.  Aronoff plays Evans G12 Tom Heads in the studio and G2 Coated Tom Heads live, EQ4…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2014
People April 8, 2014

Interview: RPMDA President Carol Wilbur

The Retail Print Music Dealers Association (RPMDA) will host its annual conference April 30 - May 3 in Dallas. The conference, a diverse collection of retailers in charge of print…

MMR Staff
Apr 8, 2014
People March 31, 2014

Levy’s Appoints Booth as N. American Sales Manager

Levy’s has announced the appointment of Glen Booth as North American sales manager.Booth, a life-long and accomplished guitarist, is a graduate of Mohawk College in Applied Arts (music) and Recording…

MMR Staff
Mar 31, 2014
People March 30, 2014

Magnatone Expands, Hires Stan Morgan as GM

A funny thing happened to Stan Morgan on the way to retirement from St. Louis Music.“It was weeks before the NAMM Show, and I called and asked him to come…

MMR Staff
Mar 30, 2014
People March 17, 2014

TC Group Americas Appoints New Senior Clinician

[caption id="attachment_49338" align="alignleft" width="560"]Russell Gray[/caption]TC Group Americas has recently appointed Russell Gray as Senior Clinician - Guitar and Bass, for the MI market.Russell Gray is an accomplished Toronto based guitar…

MMR Staff
Mar 17, 2014