LONDON - Lighting control company Artistic Licence has announced that incumbent Managing Director, Simon Hobday, is moving on to explore new opportunities. Following an internal company reorganization, company founder Wayne Howell will take over as CEO.

WUPPERTAL, Germany —Riedel Communications named Daniel Huard sales manager for Canada. He will work to increase awareness and adoption of the company's products in broadcast, entertainment, and sports event applications, and to continue the growth of Riedel's rental services.

SYRACUSE, NY—J. R. Clancy, Inc., has named Anthony Seifritz to the new position of backstage service specialist to ensure safety backstage for customers. During his 25-year career with J.R. Clancy, Seifritz’s recent projects have included large automated rigging systems for Centro Cultural Corpartes in Santiago, Chile and Messiah College in Grantham, PA.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA - Pacific Coast Entertainment has moved to a new 30,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Huntington Beach with the official launch of PCE Scenic Studios, a full-service scenic design and set construction facility.  The expansion will allow PCE to hire more warehouse and administrative staff, and add more AV, lighting and staging inventory.

ARGYLE, TX  – GoVision LP has promoted Justin Eaton to the new position of vice president, production services.  Eaton is credited with building the company’s operations virtually from scratch and designing most of its technology infrastructure over his 10-year tenure.

SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX - Xtreme Structures and Fabrication (XSF) has expanded its sales team with the addition of Heather Marie Short and Billy Phillips. Short's entertainment industry background includes a stint with Tomcat USA. Phillips has worked for Tomcat as well, along with Texas Scenic and Phillips Rigging.

LAS VEGAS - Because of its growth and volume of business, Stage Crew's financial staff has expanded with the promotion of Max Hamilton as account manager. Hamilton, with the company for five years since its start-up, was formerly its director of finance. He will now provide more hands-on supervision for the clients’ objectives. Prior to joining Stage Crew, Hamilton was a retired Las Vegas hotel executive with more than 30 years of experience.

Stage Crew furnishes equipment, labor and payroll for production installs, show runs and strikes. For more details, visit Stage Crew at http://www.stagecrew.us

SCOTTSDALE, AZ - Production company Merestone has appointed Brittany Szemerei as its rental manager. An Arizona native and graduate from ASU, Szemerei was most recently president of Events for the university’s Student Alumni Association. In her new role, she handles all needs specific to product rentals including lighting, staging, video and other equipment.
For more details, visit Merestone (http://www.merestone.com)

NORTH CREEK, NY ­ - Creative Stage Lighting has appointed Robin Lee as Northeast regional sales manager. Lee has extensive experience in entertainment lighting, most recently as PRG’s director of operations of North America.

ORLANDO, FL and HAMBURG, Germany — Pangolin Laser Systems acquired the intellectual property of Phoenix Showcontroller GmbH and CO.KG. Pangolin also announced a plan to retain members of the Phoenix team for the mutual benefit of both Pangolin and Phoenix laser show control products.