Leading audio brand owner, Q Acoustics has announced that Colin Greene, a former Apple executive for 13 years who led Apple’s US consumer business to multibillion revenues, has been appointed to its board of directors as a non-executive director. His focus will be to assist the development of the business strategy and optimising the potential of the core owned brands of Q Acoustics, QED and Goldring across the world.
Greene (pictured right) brings 30 years of experience in executive leadership roles within technology giants such as NCR, Intel, Dell and Apple. During his tenure he held COO and MD roles for Apple in Tokyo and Seoul, and in the US led its consumer business. Since returning to the UK three years ago Colin has taken on a number of advisory and non-executive roles focused on the technology and consumer sectors.
“My north star is the quality of the people I work with, and the level of enthusiasm, passion and desire to do great things at Q Acoustics is unmatched,” said Greene. “George and his team have created an amazing product and brand assortment and I feel honoured to be able to participate in their continued success.”
George Dexter, managing director, Q Acoustics (pictured left) added: “Colin’s appointment comes at a very exciting time for the business with a strong new product pipeline and significant international opportunity to grow, particularly in the US where Colin’s experience and knowledge of the market will be invaluable. I can see Colin’s appointment as a ‘sea change’ moment for our business and brands and I cannot think of a better person to join our board to help us shape our future.”
