Artistic Licence has appointed Graham Eales international sales manager. Having recently concluded his two-year contract managing Zero 88 Lighting, Eales' primary task at Artistic Licence will be to continue building the company's brand in a global capacity.
Eales has a long track record within the entertainment technology industry. Born and educated in South Africa, he set up Production Projects Durban, a rental, staging, and sales company, while also working as a freelance lighting designer. Production Projects was responsible for some of the largest concerts and corporate theatre shows in South Africa during the early 1990s. He later moved to New Zealand, taking on the role of Asian market manager for Selecon. Later he moved to the UK, where he was tasked with building up European sales and starting Selecon UK. Eales stayed in the UK, taking the position of sales and marketing manager at Zero 88 and later group general manager.