Stage Technologies Founding Managing Director Relocates to Las Vegas

Press release
April 26th 2012
    
Stage Technologies Founding Managing Director Relocates to Las Vegas

Stage Technologies Limited Group CEO Mark Ager is to relocate to the company’s Las Vegas office, effective April 30, 2012. Having established a group of operating companies worldwide, Mark’s move to the US will ensure the company’s continued focus on sales and rentals opportunities for live events and in theatres, opera houses and universities in the region. These are all sectors in which the company has completed many impressive projects over the last 15 years, including multiple Cirque du Soleil resident shows in Las Vegas, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the recently opened Signature Center in New York, on which the company worked with theatre consultants Auerbach Pollock and Friedlander and main contractor iWeiss Theatrical Solutions.

In recent years Mark has led Stage Technologies into project wins in Singapore, Macau and Saudi Arabia. He will continue to drive business around the globe from his new base. As well as managing the whole of the Stage Technologies Group, Mark will take over Kevin Taylor’s role as he is leaving the company effective 30 April 2012. Mark will join Stage Technologies’ well-established Las Vegas leadership team which includes Gemma Guy managing business development in the fixed installation and rental markets, Stephan Wood in projects and James “JT” Tomlinson who oversees US operations.

Mark founded Stage Technologies in 1994 with John Hastie and has been the driving force behind many of the company’s award winning automation products including the Acrobat system, which allows multiple axes to be controlled from a single console. A pioneer in the stage automation industry from its earliest days 25 years ago, Ager continues to promote innovation at Stage Technologies. He is also in demand as a keynote speaker at industry conferences, having addressed audiences in London and Beijing over the last six months, and as a lecturer at various theatre colleges on theatre automation and stage engineering.

For more information visit stagetech.com.

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Please contact martha.gall@stagetech.com for further details.