In a move to boost its expansion in the Australian broadcast market Videocraft has appointed industry veteran Jack Lloyd as Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Sales Manager.

Belden has appointed Koh Thian Guan as vertical manager of networking for Southeast Asia.

OmniBus has appointed John Cunningham to the executive vice president of development position. His responsibilities will include managing the OmniBus software development team. Prior to joining the U.K.-based company, Cunningham served as the director of the U.K. and Ireland Development Center for the Computer As

Echolab Corp. has appointed Ankit Patel as product marketing manager. Patel is responsible for managing the Echolab production switcher product lines.

Media 100--a unit of Optibase--recently hired Steve Bayes as its new director of product marketing. He will oversee the introduction of the 10-bit HD and SD editing system, Media 100 HD, new versions of the 844/x real-time editing/compositing tool as well as future Media 100 products for Mac and PC. Bayes comes to M

Omneon Video Networks has hired Geoff Stedman as its VP of Marketing. Stedman is a former marketing executive for SonicWALL, an Internet security company. Before that, he served as VP of Marketing at Aladdin Knowledge Systems and was also a marketing executive at SGI.

Microwave Radio Communications (MRC) , a Vislink Co., has hired David Ayotte as its new international sales manager. Ayotte's focus will be on developing and managing the company's public safety and military relationships in the Asian, Indian Sub-continent and Middle Eastern Markets, as well as the television broad

Leitch has appointed Paul Keller as its new product manager for the Videotek line of test and measurement gear. Keller is a broadcast industry veteran, having spent 25 years at WHYY-TV in Philadelphia and other broadcast facilities in various roles including technology, operations, engineering, production and pos