The Lenbrook Group of Companies, owner of globally recognized home audio brands that include NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Bluesound, and the BluOS hi-res multiroom platform, has created a new business unit: Lenbrook Media Group.
The Canadian company says the new Lenbrook Media Group business entity will more effectively enable the commercialization and development of its content management solutions, as well as pursue new opportunities that fit its vision to offer increased choices to music fans and enthusiasts for quality audio.
With the BluOS content management platform at its core, this group will also oversee the growth of content encoding solutions MQA and SCL6 which Lenbrook acquired in the autumn of 2023.
“The acquisition of MQA’s assets complemented our existing BluOS platform and supports creators in the recording studio with capturing and delivering directly and in the highest quality, their art into the homes of music lovers. Creating the Lenbrook Media Group allows us to fully capitalize on this unique position by giving it focus, and putting the right strategies, structure, and resources in place,” explains Gordon Simmonds, president and CEO of The Lenbrook Group of Companies.
Industry Veteran Mike Jbara to Run Lenbrook Media Group
Lenbrook Media Group will be led by newly appointed vice-president and general manager, Mike Jbara, the former MQA CEO and Warner Music executive.
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Jbara and Lenbrook Media Group colleague, Andy Dowell, head of licensing, will attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 9-12, 2024, and will be taking appointments to discuss licensing, integration, and other opportunities.
“Once you combine Lenbrook’s vision for advancing choice and innovation in the performance audio industry with the assembly of some of the best minds in audio hardware and software engineering, it results in substantive opportunity to empower creators, distributors, fans, and broadcasters in addition to hardware manufacturers,” adds Jbara. “It is an exciting list of possibilities that we believe will benefit both the music and the specialty audio industries.”
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