Waves Audio Appoints Ravisankar Nadiyam as Asia and Middle Eastern Regional Sales Manager
Waves Audio has appointed Ravisankar Nadiyam as Waves Regional Sales Manager for Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South Korea, managing the Waves sales channel for both Studio and Live in these regions.
Ravisankar started his career in pro audio in 1998, as a Product Specialist and Product Manager with the Avid Digidesign distributor in India. In 2002 he joined Avid Digidesign as Southeast Asia Product Specialist. In his thirteen-year career with Avid, he was Application Specialists Manager and then managed all audio sales for Avid, including live, studio and broadcast verticals, from the Dubai office covering Middle East, Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the Indian sub-continent. After a brief stint running an Avid Training Location in Bengaluru, he was heading sales at Overtone Audio, a Mumbai-based one-stop-shop for location and studio recording solutions.
Nadiyam notes, “I have been associated one way or the other with Waves since my days with Digidesign. It is a great pleasure to now join this global leader and to manage sales in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, territories which I have had a long and fruitful relationship with.”
“Waves is delighted to have Ravi on board,” says Mick Olesh, Waves EVP of Sales & Marketing. “Due to the ongoing increase and expansion of Waves’ Live and Install business in the region, Waves has expanded our sales capacity. Ravisankar’s vast experience and expertise in Southeast Asia and the Middle East is a true asset in assuring our support to the channel and users in this region and advancing Waves’ live and studio pro audio capacities, together with Waves’ game-changing technologies and valuable solutions.”