NEW GENERAL MANAGER FOR CELESTION PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS DIVISION

14/09/2004

Celestion today announced Nigel Wood as the company's newly appointed Professional Products General Manager. Wood is an accomplished senior commercial manager in the engineering sector with a global background in OEM sales and marketing, third party distribution and operations and will report directly to CEO Frank DiGirolamo.

Before joining Celestion, Wood served as Technical & Marketing Manager at Icore International, a market-leading specialist engineering company, offering aerospace and industrial technical products to major OEMs. Here he was responsible for corporate engineering activities as well as being accountable for one of three internal industrial business units. Prior to this, Wood had built his career as a senior manager at two global engineering organisations, with an impressive track record introducing creative solutions to maximise efficiency and increase profitability.

"Nigel’s extensive experience in an OEM-based engineering environment makes him exceptionally qualified," commented CEO Frank DiGirolamo. "This appointment underscores Celestion’s commitment to grow further our market share in the Professional Audio and Music Industry sectors. Nigel will build on the company’s 80-year history of setting industry standards, pioneering technologies and delivering high-value products to customers."

Wood holds a BSc. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southampton University, and has recently moved to Suffolk to be close to the Professional Division headquarters in Ipswich.

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