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Aug. 16, 2024

#259 - Claire Heat

Claire Heat is a highly motivated individual with over 25 years experience in the industry, specializing in events and special projects for the music, television and film industries, she has huge amounts of energy, a strong w...

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Aug. 14, 2024

#257 - Joe Cole

Joe Cole is the founder of R90 Lighting. R90 Lighting is first and foremost dedicated to design, their history is rooted in corporate event lighting and special event lighting design. They have over 20 years experience collec...

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Aug. 7, 2024

#256 - Bryan Hartley

Production and Lighting Designer Bryan Hartley has designed for a lot of metal bands in his long and storied career. Many people know Bryan as the past LD for KISS,,Megadeth, Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe, and many other names but H...

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Aug. 4, 2024

#261 - Sebastien Boulanger

Sebastien Boulanger is a 15 year veteran of the Live Events industry, having worked as a Technical Director for the likes of the Quebec Minister of Justice and Cirque de Soleil. Then starting his own events company, IC Events...

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July 31, 2024

#255 - Chris Lisle

Chris Lisle has over 32 years experience in the entertainment industry. He has worked in a variety of roles including Production Designer, Lighting Designer, Production Manager, and Show Producer. Chris started Chris Lisle Li...

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July 24, 2024

#254 - Scott De Vos

Scott De Vos has been in the industry for over 50 years, he is the owner of De Lux Productions and has produced events such as the Dove Awards, PGA, Luis Palau Outdoor events and other corporate events. Scott has been highly ...

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July 17, 2024

#253 - Paul Vincent

Paul Vincent is the Founder (in 1978) of Vincent Lighting System’s Company, which sells and services theatre, television and architectural lighting and rigging systems, and related equipment. Vincent Lighting System’s also pr...

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July 9, 2024

#252 - Dizzy Gosnell

Dizzy Gosnell is the Vice President of Production for Bandit Lites, He has been a part of the Bandit family since 1993 but he first met Michael 40 years ago when Strickland was the production manager for Blackfoot and he was ...

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July 3, 2024

#251 - Ola Melzig

Ola Melzig began as a stagehand working on local shows in Stockholm 1989. Over the last 20 years he has gone on to produce high profile shows beginning with the massive Eurovision Song Contest, but also The Commonwealth Games...

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June 26, 2024

#250 - Neel Vasavada

Neel Vasavada is the founder and president of Overdrive Energy Solutions.Neel is a driving force in the movement to bring green technology to the events industry. His engineering background and experience with both sustainabl...

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June 19, 2024

#249 Michael Keeling

Michael Keeling is a Production Designer, Creative/Show Designer Director and as it says on his website, Veteran (he said it not us!) as Creative and Producer for ​Live Concert, Festivals, Content, Artist-Production, Media Ca...

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June 12, 2024

#248 - Phay MacMahon

Phay Mac Mahon started his career in production management in 1976 with Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats. Since then he has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Pink, Shakira, George Michael, Aeros...

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June 5, 2024

#247 - Joe Casanova

Joe started back in the 80’s on the rental and production side of Century Music Systems Inc and worked as a staff engineer prepping tours, repairing equipment, training new road staff, and then engineering shows for Showco. S...

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May 30, 2024

#246 - Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro

Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro is a twenty-five year veteran of the live entertainment industry. With roots as a touring lighting technician and a successful career in event production, Mike has grown to be one of the most well resp...

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May 29, 2024

#245 - Bob Harmon - Eggshell Lighting Company

Robert (Bob) Harmon is one of the hands down NICEST guys in the industry. You know you've made a mark in this industry when Bob approaches you at a tradeshow and hands you a bag of Hawaiian coffee. Bob started his first busin...

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May 22, 2024

#244 - Claude Viens

⁠Claude Viens is a Product Specialist at Lighting at AVL Media Group in Montreal, Canada. Claude is responsible for projects and support in North America. Claude spearheaded AVL’s continued growth in the professional lightin...

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May 15, 2024

#243 - Jim Woodward

Jim Woodward is an award-winning designer whose expertise is 3D visualization, rendering, and modeling for a wide variety of industries including concert & theatrical events, film, television, corporate events, trade shows, m...

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May 8, 2024

#242 - Steve Warren

Steve Warren was a Shareholder and Director of Avolites Ltd until to its recent sale to Robe. For over 35 years, Steve was the public face of the console and dimming manufacturer. He began his career designing electrical layo...

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May 1, 2024

#241 - Michael Nevitt, Crossfade Design

Michael has spent 30+ years in the entertainment industry. First as a freelancer, then in 2011, Michael joined forces with other designers to create Crossfade Design, LLC. During that time, he has created designs for small,me...

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April 25, 2024

#240 - David Haskell from Gateway Studios

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 S...

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April 24, 2024

#239 - Jeff Cranfill from SES & Concert Stuff Group

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 organiz...

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April 18, 2024

#238 - David Milly

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 t...

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April 17, 2024

#237 - Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED

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, employi...

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April 11, 2024

#236 - Dan Braun

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 del...

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