Martin Audio has announced the appointment of Bash Akhtar as Operations Director and David Morbey as the company’s first dedicated Product Manager.

Akhtar previously served as Operations & Manufacturing Director of RLC Callender, Smiths Detection, and Harmonic Inc. He holds a Fellowship in Manufacturing Management from Cranfield University and is a Manufacturing Systems Engineer from the University of Hertfordshire. Morbey previously served as Global Product Marketing Manager at D&M Professional.

‘Bash comes to us with a wealth of operational experience and knowledge from a variety of industries and I look forward to his leadership in creating a world class manufacturing facility here in High Wycombe,’ says James King, Director of Marketing. ‘David will bring new discipline to product development and life-cycle management, alongside developing deeper insights to application opportunities that will lay the path for a better defined and even more successful product lineup.’

These appointments accompany a number of other recent recruits, including Andy Weingaertner for sales in EMEA; Robin Dibble in the Product Support Engineer team; Alan Josey as new Finance Director; Carl Davies as Junior Mechanical Design Engineer: and Nicole Thorne on North American sales admin support.