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David has been in the industry more than 40 years. He was President at Morris | Light & Sound, Integration before SoloTech acquired Morris. David is now the President of Business Development for Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS). 



Gateway Studios & Production Services offers turnkey production service solutions for the live music touring, motion picture/television and corporate event industries. Gateway Studios, scheduled to open this year, with more than 300,000 square feet, Gateway will be the largest and most technologically-advanced facility of its kind in the United States. 



David is also a lover of animals and supports The St Thomas Humane Society. I am really looking forward to catching up.



This episode is brought to you by Ultimate Support and GearSource.  


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Jeff Founded Special Event Services in 1986 with Jim Brammer in Brammer’s Winston-Salem garage. SES is an industry leader in audio, lighting, video, design, staging, and live event production for businesses, religious organizations, and major recording artists.



Since 1987 Jeff has provided scenic, show and lighting design for SES clients worldwide. Jeff has also toured with many of these SES clients as their lighting director for over the past 30 plus years. This additionally includes being the lighting designer and director on several music videos and television broadcasts that SES provides production for.



This episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and RZI Lighting.


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David sold his lighting business, TLS Inc to 4Wall back in 2012 and stayed on to work with the company for three years before taking a different approach to life.

Now David is retired and manages some real estate and spends time renovating his current house with his wife DeAnn. They both did some community theater work and consulted on a few lighting projects.  David and DeAnn bought boats and traveled a lot which is fantastic BUT David’s main source of income these days is winning $ from buddies at golf.

This episode is proudly sponsored by Elation Lighting and Mainlight.


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Glenn Roggeman is the CEO of The AED Group. He founded AED in Belgium in 1985 as a dry-hire rental company for lighting and sound equipment. Today, the AED group is a major player in the audio-visual market in Europe, employing more than 300 people in eight countries - Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and United Arab Emirates. 

In 2013, Glenn acquired AED Studios and transformed it into the most eco-friendly entertainment complex, catering to film and TV productions, show rehearsals, and corporate events. He’s also founded an Audio brand, Lighting brand, Trussing, and so much more. 

This episode is sponsored by Stratum Productions and Roe Visual.


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Talk about career spans - Dan Braun started his legendary career path more than 45 years ago. In fact this year will mark Dan’s 30th year working with mega-act, Metallica where he remains their Show Director today - while delivering the best show he can to their massive audiences around the world. Longevity in this industry isn’t by accident, and Dan is no exception.

This episode is brought to you by ACT Entertainment and GearSource.


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Matthias Hinrichs is a Product designer and innovator. Specializing in the Obsidian Control Systems for Elation Professional. Matthias has a focus on user experience, usability and workflows to make complicated tasks easy and fun for the user. As a product manager for lighting control systems he was tasked to analyze the creative process of lighting and visual design so it can be programmed into computer systems fast and efficiently. The challenge of managing tens of thousands of control parameters in an easy to understand workflow is challenging but fun to solve as the final result is so stunning and inspiring.



Matthias loves dreaming up great products and ideas for the lighting industry and working with incredible teams to realize them from the napkin drawing to highly integrated manufacturing across the globe.



There is of course more to life than work where Matthias and his wife have a big heart for animal welfare and volunteer in the local human society to help animals in need of foster and care. 



This episode is brought to you by RZI Lighting and AVL Media Group.


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