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Tom McLoughlin, president of Harman Kardon, retired on Oct. 1 from HK after 10 years and will remain as consultant until June 2007. Paul Bente, president of Harman Consumer Group's loudspeaker division, will assume McLoughlin's responsibilities... William T. Fox, former senior VP of sales for Brillian and a 25-year CE industry veteran, joins D&H Holdings as sales and marketing senior VP for Marantz, Escient and Snell Acoustics brands. He replaces Bill Lee who left the D&H last month... Kenwood promotes Keith Lehmann to senior VP, consumer electronics sales sector and Dan Petersen becomes consumer electronics business and marketing analyst … Paul G. Kahn, an executive consultant with speaker-maker BG Corp., joins the company full time as CEO replacing Warren Kocmond, who has retired. Kocmond will continue as chairman of BG's board …Tom Greger, recently distribution director for PetSmart, has been named operations VP at DBL Distributing… Sam Changizi, previously New Age Electronics' information technology director, has been promoted to CIO... Bill Harrell has been promoted to VP of Jamo U.S., responsible for overseeing distribution, channel and category strategies for the Jamo brand in North and South America … Walt Detlefsen, ex-assistant VP of Audiovox's OEM Division, joins Vizualogic as OEM sales manager... Keith McCurdy, Hands-On Mobile studios and products president, promoted to COO… George W. Haywood exited XM's board effective Oct. 3 for personal reasons... William McCorey, Jr. was promoted to senior VP/chief information officer at Circuit City, succeeding Michael Jones who will leave the company in November.