CEDIA is the main international commerce affiliation for sensible house expertise, serving greater than 4000 members, 30000 professionals from 77 nations.
CEDIA proclaims three newly elected administrators who will be a part of the CEDIA board of administrators for the 2023-2025 time period: Stephan Goodhue, Jennifer Mallett and James Ratcliffe.
“Stephan, Jen, and James carry an abundance of house expertise expertise and much-needed, contemporary views to the board,” mentioned David Weinstein, chair of the CEDIA board of administrators. “Their resumes are spectacular, and their strategic visions for the affiliation’s future made them stand out amongst a big pool of certified nominees. I stay up for working with them to greatest serve the wants of our members and to advance the business.”
James Ratcliffe is the managing director of Homeplay, primarily based in Sunbury-on-Thames within the U.Ok. James started his profession in house expertise and developed a ardour for music, sound and electronics when he joined a hi-fi retailer on the age of 14. He established his design-centric integration agency Homeplay in 2006. The agency has earned ISO:9001 accreditation for organizations that exhibit the power to constantly present services that meet buyer and regulatory necessities. Beneath his management, Homeplay turned the second CEDIA member globally to attain CEDIA’s “Member of Excellence” standing and has earned quite a few accolades from CEDIA, Control4, D-Instruments and native enterprise recognition applications. In 2018, Homeplay’s new expertise middle was awarded Finest Showroom EMEA on the CEDIA Awards.
James’s involvement with CEDIA began in 2002; he turned the youngest member of the CEDIA EMEA board of administrators on the age of 24. Over time, James remained closely invested in CEDIA, aiding with the U.Ok. Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group, quite a few CEDIA working teams, a U.Ok. lighting CPD course and coaching at ISE. He usually supplies coaching to inside designers and designers as a CEDIA Outreach Teacher.
Jennifer Mallett is the founder and president of Stage Up Automation in Northborough, Massachusetts. Jennifer has been within the house expertise business for 22 years, with 15 years of expertise on the producer facet and 7 years of expertise because the proprietor of Stage Up Automation. She based Stage Up Automation in 2016 with a imaginative and prescient to create excellent house automation experiences utilizing hands-on showroom demonstrations, alongside design and schooling excellence. Right this moment, the corporate creates sensible houses and clever buildings in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Arizona, Florida, Ohio and Maryland.
Previous to establishing Stage Up Automation, Jennifer served because the North American director for the house expertise gross sales & companies division at Bose Company, main the customized set up enterprise unit within the U.S. and Canada, in addition to assuming extra international management advisory roles in Europe, India, the Center East and Australia. A graduate of Bentley College, Jennifer has a bachelor’s diploma in advertising and marketing and has earned main business expertise credentials as a Control4 programmer and Savant programmer, and holds URC, Ring ProX and Lutron Triathlon shading system certifications. She has spoken on quite a few panels at CES, InfoComm and CEDIA conferences.
Stephan Goodhue is a director of Auckland, New Zealand-based integration agency Liquid Automation. Stephan has been concerned within the house automation, IT and AV industries for over 30 years. He started as an electronics engineer, working within the marine business for over a decade earlier than establishing Liquid Automation. Accustomed to the excessive stage of “marine commonplace” set up work, Stephan’s imaginative and prescient was to supply the identical high quality to residential and business initiatives.
Each Stephan and Liquid Automation turned CEDIA members in 2007. The agency has received quite a few awards, creating profitable initiatives yearly. He has served as a CEDIA board member for the Australia/New Zealand area and was instrumental within the CEDIA Expo in New Zealand. As a Licensed CEDIA Outreach Teacher, Stephan has advocated on behalf of the affiliation and business on panels at occasions. He has additionally served as a board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Group, the world’s solely peer-to-peer community completely for transformational entrepreneurs and leaders. Stephan can be a skilled board moderator who usually makes use of these expertise for his native EO discussion board.
This yr’s board nominees participated in a rigorous vetting course of led by the CEDIA Governance Committee, a globally consultant group consisting of three board members and 4 affiliation members. After months spent reviewing and interviewing an unprecedented variety of international board nomination submissions, James, Jennifer and Stephan had been nominated as a slate and ratified as elected administrators by CEDIA’s membership.
“I need to thank the Governance Committee for enterprise essentially the most rigorous board nomination course of I’ve seen in three a long time of non-profit work,” says Daryl Friedman, international president and CEO of CEDIA. “Their efforts produced a stellar class of elected administrators to assist us evolve to satisfy the challenges of the present second and elevate the business we love.”
