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John Penn

SSE Audio’s co-founder John Penn has stepped down from the company he established forty-five years ago to enjoy a well earned retirement. John Penn and his wife Heather founded SSE back in 1976. From a first gig in a school theatre in Merseyside, the couple went on to build up the largest Pro-Audio hire sales and systems integration business in the UK.

With retirement in mind, John and Heather Penn and the rest of the SSE Audio Group board successfully negotiated the acquisition of the business by Solotech in 2018. With the future of the business secured, Heather Penn was the first to retire last December (2020). Now John Penn has decided that the time is right to enjoy life away from work and he officially retired at the end of April 2021.

In normal times there would have been a big send off, but with the COVID pandemic still impacting the whole industry, his official retirement was a more low key affair. Recently John and Heather Penn came in to the company’s Redditch headquarters for a presentation, which was broadcast via Zoom to staff across the country.

John Penn was presented with a Shure microphone that had been integrated into a metal sculpture of the ‘Death Star’ by Sigma Fabrication’s Andi Appleby. ‘Star Wars’ has been a constant theme at SSE, with even the main company database software named Yoda. John and Heather Penn also unveiled a commemorative plaque celebrating their forty-five years as pioneers of the audio industry.

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