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Robert J. Struble Named CEO Of Directed
Robert J. Struble has been appointed CEO of Directed, the manufacturer of vehicle security and remote-start products, replacing Tarek Kutrieh, who served as president. ...
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Zagg Names Chris Ahern Mophie President
Accessory manufacturer Zagg announced it has named Chris Ahern president of its Mophie brand. Ahern, who previously served as president of the international business...
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Samsung Scandal Is Heading To The Fall Of A President
The Samsung bribery scandal may cost former South Korean President Park Geun-hye her position permanently, and perhaps jail time. A special prosecutor, after a...
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TCL Promotes Chris Cardenas; Brings On Brent Duke & Darren Napier
TCL announced a trio of executive moves on Thursday. Chris Cardenas has been promoted to sales director for its multimedia business, while Brent Duke...
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Brandmotion Names Tony Berlingieri Sales & Marketing Director
Brandmotion, the Southfield, Mich.-based manufacturer and distributor of OEM automotive technology, has brought on Tony Berlingieri as sales and marketing director. Berlingieri has more...
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Trump’s Transgender Order Draws Tech Industry’s Ire
An executive order issued by President Donald Trump that revokes protections for transgender students in public schools has drawn opposing responses from many leading...
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Speculation Abounds Over Samsung Leadership After Lee Is Arrested
The arrest of Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee on bribery charges is creating much speculation about the company’s next steps. With the South...
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Samsung Head Facing Arrest
Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee, the son of the company’s chairman Lee Kun-he, is facing criminal charges in the ongoing investigation into crimes...
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Azione Adds DSI’s Eric Thies & D-Tools’ Tim Bigoness To Advisory Board
Azione Unlimited (AU), the integrator-focused educational buying group, has added two new members to its advisory board. Eric Thies, president of DSI Luxury Technology,...
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Phil Cohn Named Sales Senior VP At Samsung
Phil Cohn has been named sales senior VP for Samsung Electronics America’s consumer business division. He will report to Joe Stinziano, executive VP of...
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Marty Tindall Joins Sharp As Southeast Sales Director
Marty Tindall has joined Sharp as its sales director for its Southeast territory, Tindall will be tasked with maintaining and expanding Sharp’s business relationships...
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Filippo Fanton Named CEO Of Sonus Faber
Filippo Fanton has been named CEO of high-end loudspeaker manufacturer Sonus Faber, replacing Mauro Grange. Fanton had served as CFO of the company for...
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Jim Sanduski Heading New, Broader Sharp Electronics Division
Sharp Electronics has combined its marketing, manufacturing and services units into a single new division headed by longtime industry exec Jim Sanduski. Previously president...
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It’s Official: Pai Is FCC Chairman
FCC commissioner and Barack Obama nominee Ajit Pai has formally succeeded Tom Wheeler as chairman of the agency after being tapped last week by...
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Trump v. Obama: What Does Watson Think?
Jeremy Waite, a strategic marketing evangelist for IBM, used IBM Watsonto compare President Trump’s inauguration speech with that of President Obama’s in 2009. Watson...
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Obama’s Final Act Funds Tech Sector For Innovation
Barack Obama embraced technology and science during his presidency, and for his last official act in office he threw the tech industry a rose....
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Best Buy’s Hubert Joly: No Plans To Leave For Carrefour
Best Buy chairman/CEO Hubert Joly has squashed reports that he might leave the No. 1 CE retailer to helm Carrefour, the French hypermarket chain....
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Tech Industry Attends Trump Inauguration
Among the tech industry executives attending the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States were John Taylor, government relations VP at LG...
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Bill Thiele Joins Display-Vu To Lead RCA TV Re-Launch
Updated! Display-Vu Corp., an affiliate of Curtis International, has brought on Bill Thiele as sales VP to head the re-introduction of RCA brand TVs...
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Christopher Volk Joins GoldenEar
Christopher Volk has joined GoldenEar Technology as eastern region director of sales for the audio manufacturer. Volk was most recently key account manager with...
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Ken Furst Dies At 66
Industry veteran Ken Furst died last weekend. He was 66. Furst wore a lot of hats in the CE industry; working on Home Theater...
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Petra Names Jim Loden E-com VP
National tech accessories distributor Petra Industries has promoted business development director Jim Loden to e-commerce sales VP. Loden joined Petra in February 2015 from...
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The Warranty Group Taps Nelson Chai For Chief Exec
Nelson Chai, a past president of CIT Group and a former chief financial officer of Merrill Lynch, will join The Warranty Group (TWG) next...
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LG Electronics Names Seong-jin Jo New CEO
LG Electronics has elevated Seong-jin Jo, the head of its home appliance division, to CEO, effective immediately. In an executive shakeup at the top...
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Office Depot North America Chief Mark Cosby Departing
Mark Cosby is leaving Office Depot, where he has served as president of the office supply chain’s North American business for more than two...
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Nortek Adds Dan Geiger, Robert Beliles; Expands Production Facility
Nortek Security & Control is gearing up for growth in the security, smart home and wellness technology markets by expanding manufacturing capacity and adding...
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GoldenEar’s John Miller Dies At 62
John Miller, regional sales director at GoldenEar Technology and an industry veteran, died last week at the age of 62. Sandy Gross, founder of...
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President Trump
Perhaps all the pundits who got it wrong should have spent some time with the industry’s buying groups. We have always maintained that these...
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John P. McCready, Former Marantz President, Dies At 68
John McCready, who served as president of Marantz America from 1996 until 2005, died yesterday in Chicago. McCready’s technology career included positions at Linksys,...
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Sharp Electronics Corp. Promotes Mike Marusic & Moonsun Park
Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), the U.S. subsidiary of Sharp Corporation, announced two more executive promotions. Mike Marusic has been promoted to COO of the...
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ADL Honors Crutchfield, Ristow, Chaikens At Industry Gala
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL’s) National Consumer Technology Industry division honored Almo principals Gene and Warren Chaiken; AVB/BrandSource CEO Jim Ristow; and Crutchfield founder/CEO Bill...
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THX Names Scott Francis CTO
THX, which was recently acquired by gaming manufacturer Razer, announced it has hired Scott Francis as its chief technology officer. Francis will be tasked...
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Help Wanted: hhgregg Seeks Successor To Chief Merchant Keith Zimmerman
hhgregg’s chief merchandising officer Keith Zimmerman has left the company after nearly two years in that post. His departure comes as retailers enter their...
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Dino DiCocco Named Sales Director At Eastern Marketing
Dino DiCocco has been promoted to sales director at Eastern Marketing. DiCocco has been with the Roseland, N.J.-based premium appliance distributor for 23 years....
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Winegard Execs Elected To Iowa Business Hall Of Fame
Antenna supplier Winegard announced that founder John R. Winegard and his son and current CEO, Randy Winegard, will both be inducted into the Iowa...
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Sears Promotes Jason Hollar To CFO
Sears Holdings has promoted a senior finance exec, Jason Hollar, to chief financial officer. He succeeds Robert Schriesheim, whose pending departure was announced last...
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Doug Albregts Named Sharp Electronics President/CEO
Sharp Corporation has appointed Doug Albregts as president/CEO of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), its wholly owned subsidiary in charge of the Americas business. Albregts...
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GE Appliances Names Rick Hasselbeck CMO
Rick Hasselbeck has left the beauty business to serve as chief marketing officer of GE Appliances. Formerly global franchise leader of Covergirl and general...
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Optoma Adds Ashanti Long, Bob Guentner To Pro Sales Team
Leading projector provider Optoma Technology has boosted the pro side of its A/V business with the additions of Ashanti Long and Bob Guentner. Long,...
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Savant Founder Robert Madonna To Return As CEO
Savant, a manufacturer of smart-home tech, announced founder Robert Madonna will assume the role of CEO. William Lynch, who has been the CEO for...
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It’s Official: Staples’ Interim CEO Shira Goodman To Run The Show
Shira Goodman, who was named interim CEO at Staples last June, will get to keep the corner office. In announcing the decision, Staples board...
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Monster’s Vern Smith Dies At 55
Vern Smith, business development director at Monster, died Tuesday, Sept. 20, according to the company. He was 55. Smith had been with the company...