PEARL AND SWAN APPOINTED dB BROADCAST DIRECTORS

GRAHAM Pearl and Tom Swan have been appointed directors of dB Broadcast, the Cambridgeshire-based systems integrator.
Pearl now becomes Operations Director and Swan becomes Sales and Marketing Director.
David Bird, Managing Director and founder of dB Broadcast, comments: "As the company grows, we are now 45 in number, it is important that I have experienced and responsible people to help me run it. As well as a reward for all Graham's and Tom's hard work, the appointments also represent a long-term safeguard for the company and its employees. I value Graham's and Tom's support in running the company."
Graham Pearl has spent over 20 years in the broadcast industry, working for the most part alongside David Bird. He was an apprentice at Pye TVT Limited and gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Central Lancashire.
After two years back at Pye, where he worked in the services and planning & installation departments, Pearl joined Pro-bel as a project engineer, before rejoining David Bird at dB Broadcast as senior project engineer. Since then he has progressed into project management and now general management.
Tom Swan has been in sales and marketing within the broadcast industry for more than 20 years. He began his career as an apprentice at Pye TVT and in 1981 gained an Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Coventry University. He stayed a further five years at Pye TVT, working within studio engineering and later in the systems proposals and product management departments.
Since then he has been a product manager at Cambridge Instruments and Pesa International, directly responsible for the character generator and routing switcher ranges. More recently Swan was UK sales manager at Pesa and international sales manager at both Cambridge Animation and Pixel Power.
Swan joined dB Broadcast in January 2000 as sales and marketing manager.
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