Clay Paky Appoints Alberico D'Amato Head of International Sales

	Pio Nahum and Alberico D'Amato, Clay Paky

Pio Nahum, Clay Paky's sales and marketing director, has created a new position within the company: head of international sales. The job has been assigned to Alberico D'Amato who, as of 1 July, will be responsible for coordinating all internal area sales managers and external regional sales representatives in their dealings with distributors and customers.

D'Amato has worked as a Clay Paky area manager since 1997. He has travelled relentless around the globe and has become a well known personality in our industry. During these 17 years, he has successfully followed dozens of Clay Paky distributors with all kinds of cultural backgrounds, very often on difficult markets. He has therefore gained invaluable market knowledge, and the company says because he has always endeavored to work directly with Clay Paky end-users. For this reason, he knows personally a lot of rental companies, theatres, TV studios, and lighting designers.

"I'm sure Alberico will inject new energy into our market activity," said Nahum. "With his skills, personality, and determination, he will lead our sales team with firmness and win our customers' respect and trust."

For his part, D'Amato said: "I am honored to receive this new assignment, although I will have to partially neglect the customers I have followed up to now, who have become friends. However, this new challenge at the age of fifty is highly gratifying and gives me the chance to do something really important for Clay Paky, a company that is in my heart and which I owe a lot to."