Members of the inaugural Board of Directors are: Chair, Bill Price - director of systems, Barbizon; Vice-Chair, Rick Rudolph - executive vice-president, Stage Equipment & Lighting; Secretary/Treasurer, Mark Heiser - managing director, New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center; and Directors Gavin Berger - director of Concert Halls, Lincoln Center Inc; Bill Groener - vice-president of sales for North America, Color Kinetics; Michael Peitz - executive director, Educational Theatre Association; Lori Rubinstein - executive director, ESTA; David Saltiel - partner, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd; Robert Scales - Professor Emeritus, University of Southern California; Frank Stewart - owner, Specialty TECH Services; and Jim Utterback - training director, IATSE Local 22. Serving as special consultant to the board is Andrea Sussman - vice-president, KSA-Plus Communications.
ESTA says the Foundation's mission is to develop, publish and market educational programs to establish and provide the knowledge, skills and training necessary to pursue careers in the entertainment technology industry; fund research, publications and education on safety and the advancement of technology within the industry; provide scholarships and grants to individuals or related organizations to further education; and provide financial aid and assistance to members of the entertainment technology community who demonstrate need based on serious illness, accident or death.
(Lee Baldock)
