Vaddio Appoints Two to Executive Team

NEW HOPE, MN – Vaddio, a manufacturer of specialty cameras/control systems for the AV/broadcast industry, appoints Mark Steen as Chief Operating Officer and Darin Thurston as Vice President of Product Development. Steen has been on Vaddio’s management team and a product manager for the past five years. Thurston was previously with ClearOne Communications as VP of Product Management.
More details from Vaddio (http://www.vaddio.com):

NEW HOPE, MN – Appointing Steen to the role of COO is in response to Vaddio’s rapid growth and expansion. Steen joined Vaddio in April 2007 as both a Product Manager and member of the management team for the company. During the past five years Steen has been an integral part of the organization, collaborating on many of the products that have helped to differentiate Vaddio in the marketplace.

Darrin Thurston joins Vaddio from ClearOne Communications where he was VP of Product Management, responsible for collaboration and conferencing products lines. During his tenure, the professional audio conferencing product lines garnered market share leadership in the industry. He was also instrumental in introducing a new class of USB and telephony conferencing products leveraging the mass adoption of Unified Communications in the enterprise space.