AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – At Studer's Global Partners Conference Sept. 8, Andy Trott, Harman's VP of Soundcraft, Studer and AKG announced that, in addition to Bruno Hochstrasser, who was named Studer GM in August, there would be two more strategic appointments heading up R&D and Product Development, reporting to Bruno: Peter Glattli and Andrew Hills.
Glattli was named head of R&D at Studer's Development Centre based in Regensdorf, Switzerland. He joins the company from Super Computing Systems, a long-term Studer partner. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the ETH Zurich and his background includes developing Super Computing's Object Oriented software group.
Hills, re-joins Studer to develop the new Product Management team to be based in Regensdorf. His career included positions at BBC, Neve and SSL before he served Studer in a senior sales role, most recently responsible for the BBC account, where he played a role in a record order for Studer consoles in 2010 and was responsible for other strategic accounts across Europe and Asia
"We've made these changes to accelerate our R&D process," said Trott, noting that new people, new strategies and new technologies were all an important part of the company's new product development efforts.
For more information, please visit www.harman.com.
