People & Places: Jeff Ashachik’s Move to HireSparks, New Great Lakes Atlona Leadership, More AV News from August

HireSparks

HireSparks AV Recruiting, the executive search firm dedicated to the audio visual manufacturing and integration industry, has hired Jeff Ashachik, a well-known figure in the industry, former Director of Training and Technology at Crestron Electronics and Certified Crestron Master Platinum Programmer, as VP of Recruiting.

CEO Michael Sparks believes Jeff’s acceptance of this leadership role is perfectly aligned with the company’s mission to offer clients the highest level of subject matter expertise and candidate reach in the audio visual industry. “Like a lot of people in the AV industry, I’ve known Jeff for years and have sought his advice on a huge range of topics,” stated Sparks.

“It’s a tremendous advantage for us to have an individual at his level, who actually helped put together Crestron’s global training and certification program, instructed classes and signed certifications and is one of the few Platinum Programmers in the world, to be vetting candidates for our clients.” he continued.