Fred Shen, Founder and Chairman of Shen Milsom & Wilke Design Firm Featured in NYT Profile
Today’s New York Times (NYT) featured the founder of the AV industry’s largest AV design firm, Fred Shen. Shen started Shen Milsom & Wilke in 1986 and he plans to retire and turn over the reigns to his son, Thomas, by the end of 2016. It’s a great profile of the founder, as well as his latest project — the New York Public Library.
Here’s the entire NYT profile.
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