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#268 - Colleen Wittenberg - LEADING LADIES PODCAST
Oct. 3, 2024

#268 - Colleen Wittenberg - LEADING LADIES PODCAST

Colleen Wittenberg is a Freelance multi-cam director, media server programmer and operator. Colleen has worked for some incredible artists such as ColpPlay, aerosmith, alanis morissette, U2, Lizzo to name but a few. And is cu...

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#267 - Howard Glickman
Oct. 2, 2024

#267 - Howard Glickman

Howard Glickman is the Associate Principal at Apeiro Design, With over 20 years at the firm, has been a team leader on a great variety of projects from large international projects in Asia and the Middle East to middle school...

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#266 - Chris Conti
Sept. 27, 2024

#266 - Chris Conti

Chris Conti is the Chief Innovation Officer at Production Resource Group. Chris joined PRG in 2004 where he has worked on multiple concert tours, TV shows, corporate events, trade shows, and special events. Some of the highli...

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#265 - David Wolstenholme
Sept. 25, 2024

#265 - David Wolstenholme

David Wolstenholme is a control systems specialist from Kent, England. David has gained extensive experience touring large-scale musical theatre and ice shows, and has spent time at the National Theatre of Great Britain and C...

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#264 - David “Duck” Burns
Sept. 18, 2024

#264 - David “Duck” Burns

David “Duck” Burns is an Experienced Account Manager and Technical Director with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry. Skilled in Production Management, Stage Management, Lighting, Sound, Video, L...

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#263 - Jake Berry
Sept. 12, 2024

#263 - Jake Berry

Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Jake Berry is a multiple award winning Production Director. Known throughout the industry as the go to guy for any successful tour, Jake is the founder and CEO of Jake Berry Producti...

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#262 - Craig Caserta
Sept. 11, 2024

#262 - Craig Caserta

Craig Caserta is the VP of Production Creative Technology Group. Originally From New York, Craig is no stranger to Event Lighting with over 20 Years of experience as a Lighting Designer and Programmer. Craig has worked for a ...

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#261 - Sebastien Boulanger
Sept. 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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#260 - Lori Rubinstein
Aug. 28, 2024

#260 - Lori Rubinstein

Lori Rubinstein is the Executive Director of the Behind the Scenes Foundation, a 501C3 charity which provides Basic Needs grants to entertainment technology professionals who are seriously ill or injured and Counseling grants...

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#258 - Ken Lennon
Aug. 21, 2024

#258 - Ken Lennon

Ken Lennon is the recently retired Executive Lighting Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. His designs over the last 37 years have included such iconic attractions as Cars Land at Disney California’s Adventure, Star Wars Ga...

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#259 - Claire Heat
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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#257 - Joe Cole
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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#256 - Bryan Hartley
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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#261 - Sebastien Boulanger
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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#255 - Chris Lisle
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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#254 - Scott De Vos
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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#253 - Paul Vincent
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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#252 - Dizzy Gosnell
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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#251 - Ola Melzig
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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#250 - Neel Vasavada
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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#249 Michael Keeling
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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#248 - Phay MacMahon
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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#247 - Joe Casanova
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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#246 - Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro
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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