This blog is mostly for AV insiders so here’s the first question to those who consider themselves one: what qualifies you to be an AV insider? An AV insider is any person who has been involved in any part of the AV industry for some time period which can be as short as a month or even lesser depending on the project duration. It can be a technician or even the final end user.

I am doing a monthly series on AV insiders and the series started from 2016. I will be doing an interview with a couple of AV insiders. I am eager to learn from their choices and experiences and I’m sure you will also be able to grab couple of handy insights. Stay tuned and send in your insights, comments, queries, etc.

This may be an opportunity to connect with different people in this industry from different parts of the world and it may help you make decisions in your career path, influenced by them. 

I will be updating this post weekly with the links to each interview that is featured.

 

If you have missed the following interviews, please click the link below.

1. Patrick Murray, AVGUI
2. Arnold Mudinyu, Technical Head
3. Tim Albright, AVNation founder
4. Blesson Roy, Applications Engineer
5. Shibu Varghese, Consultant
6. Ronnie Anne Spang, AV Consultant and Designer
7. Cherian Sankey, Co-founder, six 30 labs
8. Konstantinos Papadoulas, Application Architect/Designer
9. Godwin Mathew, Applications Engineer
10. Dave Hawthorne, Programmer
11. Stuart Craig, Ceo- Asia Pacific (Crestron)
12. Eric Medley, Indie Label Owner, Music Producer and AMX VIP
13. Michelle Ford, Business Development Manager, Aquavision
14. Amauri Passos, Project Coordinator (Absolut Technologies Brazil)
15. Prashant Govindan, Senior Director – Harman Professional (India & Sri Lanka)
16. Kim Burgess, Technology Integration Specialist – Australia
17. Peter Kam, Business Development Manager, West Indies
18. Arun Mohan, Technical Engineer, Qatar
19. Sam Malik, Industry Veteran, USA
20. Adrian Jaros, Technical Manager, Singapore
21. Christopher Neto, CTS – AV Design Consultant
22. Sunil Patel, Systems Integrator Company Director, India
23. Richard Sasson, Global Director of Technical Services – Crestron
24. Doug Hall, CEO – Whitlock
25. Mohamed Sadek – Training & Programming Manager (AMX) at Martin Professional M.E
26. Nathan Schneider, AV System Designer – USA
27. Vincent Bruno, CEO – CEDIA
28. Amitkumar Gupta, Project Manager, Sahara India
29. Bob Fries, Technical Support – AMX by Harman (Samsung)
30. Victoria Ferrari, CTS, Account Executive at Synergy CT
31. Omer Brookstein, Technical Director, Israel
32. Michael Peveler, VP of Global Sales, WePresent
33. Randy Pagnan, President of rp Visual Solutions
34. Gary Weis, CEO at Sonic Foundry
35. Andreas Rosvold, Nordics Territory Manager, Optoma
36. Grifiths Zachariah, Technical Sales Director – India & Middle East at ClearOne
37. Matthew Bute, Industry Veteran (over 20 year AV/IT veteran)
38. Hagai Feiner, CEO Access Networks
39. Saar Litman, Senior Analyst & Consultant at Wainhouse Research
40. Cory Schaeffer – Director, Systems Solutions at QSC
41. Oliver Hall, Managing Director at Ultamation, U.K
42. Jonathan Brawn, Principal – Brawn Consulting
43. Peter Coman – Managing Director – Indesign Technologies, Australia
44. Marc Scheibein, Tech Support & Training, AMX Germany
45. Steve Greenblatt, CTS – Control Concepts (President & Founder)
46. Blessing Joseph, Country Manager- India, Vega Global
47. Paul Konikowski CTS-D, Design Engineering Manager
48. Vibhav Singh,CTS – Regional Manager- APAC, Enterprise at Music
49. Paul Harris, CEO – Aurora Multimedia Corp
50. Jason McGraw, CTS, CAE – Infocomm
51. Yasmin Grigaliunas, Customer Experience – avt – Australia
52. Mike Backler, Senior Programmer at Lucid Partnership LLP
53. Chuck Wilson – NSCA Executive Director
54. Lawrence Siow, Principal Consultant – Thailand
55. Sharon Kaiser – Educational Technology Specialist
56. Rich Pierro – co-CEO-Premier Mounts/President – Premier Dedicated Solutions
57. Jay Basen – Home Automation Industry Veteran
58. David Danto, Director for Emerging Technology – IMCCA, Industry Consultant & Analyst
59. Gina Sansivero, Director of Business Development, Education at FSR,Inc
60. Marc LaVecchia – Owner, BMA Software Solutions, Inc.
61. Kelly P Perkins, CTS – Marketing Communications Manager at AVI Systems
62. Punit Rastogi, Managing Director – Solutions India Systems Pvt Ltd (India)
63. Lloyd Langenhoven, Product Manager – South Africa
64. Jason Jaworski, CTS – Multimedia and Audio Video Consultant
65. Jeremy Birch, AV Consultant
66. Bruno Napoli, Co-Founder @ Krika
67. Troy Morgan, President – PanTech Design
68. Burick Graham, CEO – Jetsons Living
69. Dave Knode, Freelance Production Designer, Video & Graphics Specialist
70. Alex Capecelatro, CEO @ Josh.ai
71. Mark Coxon CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Video Professional, Blogger, and Podcast Host
72. Michael Restrepo, Owner at Restrepo Innovations
73. Corey Moss, AV/IT industry technology and media professional
74. Michael Bucklin, Regional Manager, Southwest at Biamp Systems
75. Andrew Hill, Engineer, AVCON, Inc. 
76. Peter Kolak, Senior Manager, Conferencing Services(Unified Communications) @Juniper Networks
77. Michael Frank, CTS-D, Senior Consultant, Thorburn Associates
78. James Feldstein, President & Owner, Audio Den
79. Anas Al Kurdi, Owner & CEO, Pixel Solutions
80. Essam Refaie, CTS-D, CTS-I, Senior Technology Consultant, Aurecon
81. David Allara, Managing Director, konnectus
82. Marla Suttenberg, Owner, Sapphire Marketing LLC
83. Nawsad Joomratty, Founder & Managing Director, Home Automation by NJ
84. Hossam Al-kurdi, CTS-D, CTS-I, AV Pre-Sales and Design Manager, Site Technology
85. Chris Bartram, Digital Displays Specialist
86. Dave DiGirolamo, CTS-D, Director of Audio Video Systems, Building Infrastructure Group
87. Gerald Abualy, CEO & Managing Director of Captus Systems
88. Dan Freeman, Owner, CEO at VDO360
89. Chad Allen, Group Advisor at Pulse Group LLC
90. Colin Birney, CTS-D, Principal Consultant at Birney Consulting
91. Mitchell Klein, Executive Director, Z-Wave Alliance, LLC
92. Nishad Muhammed, CTS-D, CTS-I, Audio Visual and Collaboration Technologies Lead at KAUST
93. Ellen Simich, CTS, Sr. Director, PMO & Strategic Partnerships, Prysm Inc
94. Zvonimir Prokic, Head of Programming, Platinum Vision LLC, U.A.E
95. Shane Springer, Solutions Architect at Zoom
96. Alberto Ayulo, Regional General Manager – Northeast – AVI-SPL
97. Shehzad Hussain, CTS, Senior Technology Specialist – Qatar
98. Max Kopsho – Executive Account Manager at DASCOM SYSTEMS GROUP
99. Marika Aquino – Managing Partner of TierPM
100. Tammuz Dubnov – Experiential Media-Tech | Founder & CEO of Zuzor
101. Jimmy Vaughan – National Technical Director – UC Solutions – Crestron
102. Shaun Trudell, CTS – President/Owner at Automation Arts
103. John Steinhauer – Vice President Entertainment Sales, Americas at Barco
104. Joe Way, PhD, CTS – Director, USC Learning Environments ♦ Host, Higher Ed AV ♦ Author, Producing Worship ♦ CoFounder, HETMA ♦ Writer/Speaker
105. Mark Skazenski – Vice President Sales Business Development at Loxone US
106. Mark Delguidice, CTS – Business Development Director at MediaCentric Integration
107. Jeff Day – Advisor | Connector | Entrepreneur
108. Guy Etgar – CEO of Insoundz
109. Paul Richards — Chief Streaming Officer | Business Development
110. Jay Kowalsky, CTS-I – Director of Operations | Technology Leader | Thoughtfully combining People, Space and Technology
111. Dotan Shoval – Founder of AVMaster | The Machine
112. Amelia Vrabel – VP Channels at Mersive Technologies
113. Jarrod Hillman, CTS – President of Hillman Audio Video Inc.
114. Saad Munawar – Chief Technical Officer at MOSECO QATAR
115. Yuval Kramer – VP AVSM at Kramer Electronics LTD
116. Sharath Abraham – Engineering Manager at AVI-SPL
117. Murphy Daley- AV&UC project manager
118. John Day- Founder of AV Hero

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