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ACT Entertainment Technical Services celebrates new beginnings and honors contributions

As the new year begins, ACT Entertainment is marking two promotions and a retirement in the company’s technical service department. CTO Mario Collazo retires from the firm while Ryan Kanarek has been promoted to Director of Technical Services and Dustin Barnes has been elevated to the role of Software Support Manager.

Mario Collazo, one of the company’s longest tenured employees, retired after 29 years of service at ACT Entertainment. “The technical service and support at ACT Entertainment is not only critical to our customers but vital to our culture as a company”, says ACT CEO Ben Saltzman. “We have been lucky to have leadership like Mario’s nurturing that culture of service, and luckier still to have people like Ryan and Dustin who have grown with ACT and will carry our mission forward.”

“After nearly thirty years of service with ACT, Mario’s role has been unique and will be difficult to replicate, but personally and as a team we’re up for the challenge”, says Ryan Kanarek, who celebrates his own 10-year anniversary with the company in 2025. Kanarek joined ACT in software technical support and moved up to Software Support Manager in 2017; he is well-known in the industry for his expertise with MA Lighting software platforms.

Dustin Barnes, who joined ACT in August 2021 to bolster the team’s GrandMA3 software support and has more recently become a Zactrack product specialist, steps into the Software Support Manager post previously held by Kanarek.

Pictured (left to right): Ryan Kanarek and Dustin Barnes. (Photos: ACT Entertainment)

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