Christie Lites Bolsters Their International Footprint with New Hires

	(top l-r) Julian Edwards, Gordon Torrington, Devin Gregory, and Nathan Tomlinson

Christie Lites, a global provider of stage lighting services, has made several key new Account Rep appointments from across various industry sectors over the last several months.

Starting in the UK, Christie Lites' announce the addition of Mark Burnett, who is joining the UK Account Rep team in late Q2 of 2022. Burnett joins Christie Lites with over two decades in the stage lighting industry, having built an established and well recognized career focusing on the theatrical and events market sectors. He will work in conjunction with CL UK and North American team members and clients to further the Christie Lites growth mandate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Additionally, this summer, Christie Lites welcomed rental account rep Gordon Torrington, a live events and concert touring veteran, to be based out of the CL Coventry location. Torrington brings over 20 years of hands-on experience to his new position, in which he will focus on international touring and events opportunities in the UK, Europe and beyond.

Continuing Christie's outstanding global support for their clients, recent months saw three new rental account reps welcomed to the team based out of North America:

Julian Edwards joins with over three decades in the industry, bringing well-honed skills and a reputation stemming from touring internationally with many high-profile concert artists. Edwards brings a diversity of experience to his new role as a Christie account rep, which will focus on the Concert Touring sector in North America, Europe and globally.

Nathan Tomlinson, whose previous endeavours cover a wide range of industry positions, has a well-regarded track record in design and production roles on prominent events over the past 19 years. Tomlinson joined Christie as an account rep in March 2020 and has focused his previous industry experience onto working with new and familiar clients with varied projects in Theatre, Concert, and Corporate events, across North America.

Devin Gregory joins the Christie team with over 17 years of experience in the Special Events market, primarily working in the field of luxury creative and design, including lavish one-off celebrations, VIP festival experiences, and high-profile sporting events. As Christie Lites' newest rental account rep, Gregory will be focusing on developing his client relationships in the global high-end Special Events sector, as well as broadening his overall client portfolio across North America.

The additions to Christie Lites' growing rental account rep team will expand the vendor's renowned relationship focus, combining long-term first-class knowledge and well known personalized service for Lighting Designers worldwide, the company says.

"We are excited to expand our global Rental Rep team with respected and prominent figures in their respective market sectors," comments Ken Alexander, VP of Christie Lites Rentals division. "Being such a deep pool of hands-on, experienced professionals, our Rep team provides Clients strong assurance that Christie Lites has their individual needs top of mind at all times, locally and globally - and that the Reps each muster the entire CL organization to provide whatever is required to deliver solutions and support for any production, anywhere."