Gary Kayye, founder of rAVe Publications, is one of the most prominent personalities in the audiovisual industry. He has been a contributor to WIRED magazine and a technical advisor and columnist for Sound & Communications magazine as well as an opinionated columnist for rAVe [Publications] since 2003. In addition to his writing and market analysis, Gary has been a product, marketing and business operations consultant to dozens of AV companies in the U.S. and overseas. Clients have included companies such as Sony, Sharp, Epson, Lutron, InFocus, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, NEC and Philips.
Gary, who has been involved with the audiovisual market for over 20 years, was the recipient of the InfoComm 2003 Educator of the Year Award and the 2007 NSCA Instructor of the Year Award. Over the years, he has donated much of his time as an active volunteer in the AV industry’s trade association and served as chairman of InfoComm’s Professional Education & Training Committee (PETC), chairman of the ICIA Design School Committee and chairman of InfoComm’s Installation School Committee. In addition, he has served on the InfoComm board of governors. He also helped grow the InfoComm Projection Shoot-Out as the premiere AV industry trade show special event serving on the committee from 1991 through 1997, and was instrumental in launching the Shoot-Out in the European market at the Photokina Expo in 1994 and 1996 as well as the Asian market at the 1995 and 1997 INFOCOMM Asia shows.
Prior to founding his own company, Gary was vice president of sales and marketing for AMX Corporation (www.amx.com), a manufacturer specializing in professional AV and residential AV control systems. Prior to AMX, Gary spent nine years at Extron Electronics (www.extron.com), rising to the position of vice president of sales and marketing.
Gary earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1987 from the University of North Carolina and is currently Adjunct Faculty at UNC in the School of Journalism teaching a class on how future technologies will affect the future of advertising, PR and marketing.
He is also the founder of Swim for Smiles, a non-profit that raises money for the N.C. Children’s Hospital through swimming and other fitness-related events for kids.
You can contact him at [email protected]..
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VuWall has promoted Leo Bull to chief revenue officer of both VuWall and Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) North America, the company announced Monday. In addition to the CRO role, Bull will also serve as managing director of G&D North America, headquartered in Houston. Bull was previously executive vice president at VuWall, where he was involved […]
Custom Channels, a business music streaming provider founded in 2000, has been acquired by tech entrepreneur Joe Comer and longtime operations leader Kurt Oleson. The sale by co-founders John Bradley and Dave Rahn comes as the company prepares to launch a new offering at InfoComm 2025 — a no-code music solution designed for digital signage […]
Digital signage used to mean just streaming content to a screen to share a message. But now? You can send content to displays around the world — in real time — and manage it all from a single desktop. SpinetiX has been ahead of the curve with its ARYA cloud-based platform, and now it’s evolving […]
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