In late December 2012, just days before the January Consumer Electronics Show, there was a relatively significant shift in alliances in the world of national distributor groups that we reported on. First we learned of the creation of a new group, CatalystAV – a group whose announcement contained the names of four members of the existing Digital Delivery Group (DDG) group. We also learned that DDG, in addition to losing some key members, had also parted ways with existing Executive Director Dave Kaplan and hired Daniel Kippycash of The DaVinci Group as his replacement.