Also on the Board of Directors, Valerie Tyler has been reelected as Secretary and Marina Bosi reelected as Treasurer. In the AES Elections for the Board of Governors (BoG), Angela Piva has been elected Vice President Eastern Region, USA/Canada, David v.R. Bowles has been elected Vice President Western Region, USA/Canada and Jamie Angus-Whiteoak has been elected as Vice President Northern Europe Region. Additionally, newly elected Governors-at-large are Lesley Fogle, Toru Kamekawa and Marcela Zorro. Save for the President-Elect, each newly-elected individual will serve a two-year term and Bosi and Tyler with have their current terms extended by two years.
On January 1, 2023, current Past-President Jonathan Wyner will transition to Governor for the first year of a two-year term. Beginning one-year terms will be President Josh Reiss, who will transition to Past-President, and President-Elect Bruce Olson, who will become President.
Outgoing from the Board of Governors in 2023 as regional Vice Presidents are Gabriel Herman (Eastern Region, USA/Canada), Alex Kosiorek (Western Region, USA/Canada) and Elena Prokofieva (Northern Region, Europe). Governors with terms ending this year are Brad McCoy, Paul Womack, Jun Yamazaki and Governor and Past-President (twice removed) Nadja Wallaszkovits who completes her five-year commitment to the BoG. Board of Governors-elected Director Brecht De Man’s two-year term will also end; his replacement on the Board will be named by the Board of Governors in 2022 Q4.
Reacting to its election, Leslie Gaston-Bird stated: "Thank you to the members of the Audio Engineering Society for choosing me for the position of President Elect beginning in January, 2023. I have been an AES member for almost 20 years now, beginning as a masters student in 2003. I have great respect for the AES and its members, a global community of passionate sound-makers and sound-shapers. Congratulations also to the incoming Board of Governors and Directors, I look forward to serving with you."
Leslie Gaston-Bird CAS MPSE AMPS is a re-recording (dubbing) mixer and sound editor. She is a member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys), worked for National Public Radio (Washington, D.C.), Colorado Public Radio, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Post Modern Company, and was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. In late 2019, Leslie released her book Women in Audio, published by Routledge, the book features almost 100 profiles and stories of audio engineers who are women and have achieved success throughout the history of the commercial audio. The book covers diverse fields such as sound for film and television; music recording and electronic music; acoustics; live sound and sound for theater; education; audio for games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, as well as immersive sound.
"On behalf of the entire Society," says AES President Josh Reiss, "I offer a hearty congratulations to all the newly elected Governors and officers – we look forward to your contributions to AES governance. We also offer a heart-felt ‘Thank you’ to all who showed their willingness to serve by accepting a nomination. And those who are leaving the Boards at the end of the year go with our deep gratitude for their service and commitment to the Society."
The election was monitored, and the results presented, by Gary Louie, Chair of the AES’s Tellers Committee.
Bruce Olson: President
Joshua Reiss: Past-President
Leslie Gaston-Bird: President-Elect
Valerie Tyler: Secretary
Marina Bosi: Treasurer
Cesar Lamschtein: Director
One additional Director will be named by the Board of Governors per the AES Bylaws in 2022 Q4.
In addition to the Directors listed above, the 2023 Board of Governors will be:
Bill Schulenburg: Vice President, Central Region, USA/Canada
Ewa Lukasik: Vice President, Central Region, Europe
Angela Piva: Vice President, Eastern Region, USA/Canada
David v.R. Bowles: Vice President, Western Region, USA/Canada
Jorge M. Azama: Vice President, Latin American Region
Jamie Angus-Whiteoak: Vice President, Northern Region, Europe
Alberto Pinto: Vice President, Southern Europe/Middle East/Africa Region
Kazuhiko Kawahara: Vice President, Asia-Pacific Region
Prince Charles Alexander: Governor
Areti Andreopoulou: Governor
Toru Kamekawa: Governor
Hyunkook Lee: Governor
Lesley Fogle: Governor
Agnieszka Roginska: Governor
Jonathan Wyner: Governor
Marcela Zorro: Governor
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