ETC

Who: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. (ETC)

What: A manufacturer of entertainment and architectural lighting equipment.

Where: Middleton, Wis. Other offices include New York City; Hollywood; Orlando, Fla.; Hong Kong; Copenhagen; Veenendaal, the Netherlands; Rome; London; and Holzkirch Holzkirchen, Berlin and Dresden, Germany.

When: Founded in 1975

Full-time employees: Nearly 600 worldwide.

Number of products in catalog: More than 70 products, plus ETC offers hundreds of products in total, including product-line versions, international-market brands and more.

Recent projects of note: Copenhagen Opera House, Denmark; Dave Matthews Band Summer Tour 2005 2005; Dubai TV, Dubai; Eurovision Song Contest Contest, Kyiv, Ukraine; Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Scotland; Hålogaland Teater, Tromsø, Norway; Hangzhou Grand Theatre, China; Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha, Neb.; Hong Kong Disneyland; Jazz at Lincoln Center, N.Y.; Munich Kammerspiele, Ger Ger- many; Yugra-Klassik Theater and Concert Hall, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia

Products include: Congo™ control console, Sensor+ SineWave dimming technology, the Smart Solutions™ line of compact lighting gear, SmartPack®, SmartBar™ and SmartMod SmartMod- ule™ dimmers; SmartSwitch™ and Smart Smart- Link™ control, plus SmartStand™.

By the numbers: ETC shipped 1.7 million units of Source Fours across the globe in 2005.

Did you know? In 1979, ETC began controlling parade- float lighting for Disney, beginning a relationship that endures today, with ETC systems in all Disney theme parks worldwide.

Degrees of separation: Current ETC vice president of business development and marketing Bill Gallinghouse was formerly vice president of sales and marketing for PRG (Production Research Group); Steve Terry, vice president of R&D, was formerly president of Fourth Phase Systems Group (a division of PRG); and vice president of world sales, Mark Vassallo, previously worked for Colortran and Strand.

Bill Gallinghouse

Dick Titus

Fred Foster

Mark Vassallo

Mike Griffith

Steve Terry