Vincent Bruno

A-V Services provides audiovisual and unified communication and collaboration systems that make it easy for people to work together in boardrooms, conference rooms, offices, auditoriums, classrooms, lobbies, and throughout commercial buildings and campuses. A-V Services designs, builds, programs, services, and staffs advanced work environments around the world, is headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey and has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Danbury. A-V Services was founded in 1960, is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company and is employee owned, managed, and operated. Our company consists of hardworking owners that share in the success and growth of A-V Services, making us a leader in technology deployment with the most energetic and knowledgeable team.

Rayva provides home entertainment environments that delight and inspire. A home needs a kitchen because we need to feed our body. Each home needs a Rayva home theater to nourish our mind and enrich our soul. Rayva offers inspiring content in an exciting environment for the whole family to celebrate life together. Rayva offers inspiring content in an exciting environment for the whole family to celebrate life together.

AlltecPro is a manufacturer and provider of consumer technology and professional audio/video products for commercial and residential applications. Our company works with everyone integrating and installing technology in the corporate, education, construction, hospitality, entertainment and home markets.

Recruited by Korn Ferry to lead The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA). CEDIA is the international trade association for 3,700-member companies that design, manufacture, and install technology for the home, luxury transportation, boutique hotels and small businesses.

Integrated Systems Events (ISE) organizes, manages and develops leading business to business trade show and conference events for the professional audiovisual, systems integration and IT industries. Manufacturers, distributors, systems integrators, specifiers and technology managers from the commercial and residential electronic systems industries from more than 140 countries worldwide attend events produced by ISE.

Through research participation provide feedback and ideas with editors and product developers across the Harvard Business Review group.

Elected to serve on the Consumer Electronics Association’s TechHome Division Board. The CEA is the largest consumer electronics organization. The association promotes residential electronics integration and home automation systems and drives industry initiatives such as energy efficiency, Smart Grid connectivity, product interoperability and aging in place home health technologies. The CEA owns the largest and most exciting trade show in the US called the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the event is held annually during January in Las Vegas. The CEA is strategically headquartered near Washington DC in Arlington, VA.

Crestron doubled sales revenues twice during my tenure as the Director of Marketing. The company realized $803 million dollars in sales revenues by fiscal year ending 2015. Crestron is an industry leading a B2B manufacture that designs thousands of products. I led a global team of creative designers, communications and technical writers, web developers, social media specialists, public relations and tradeshow managers. Effectively motivated and inspired a large and diverse staff to maximize productivity and adjust to changing priorities. Innovated new ways to promote the company and its products to adapt to a changing competitive environment. Kept up-to-date with the latest marketing trends to drive the company’s approach beyond how it has always been done, taking full advantage of new technologies. Increased brand recognition and sales by reaching beyond the direct dealer customer to end user clients. Created and managed marketing plans and promotions for new product releases. Secured budgets to build, update, maintain and manage global customer experience centers and design showrooms. Managed all trade shows and events around the world in which the company exhibited. Delivered the right message, to the right people, at the right time – online, in print and in person.

Authored a chapter titled Achieving Success Globally that was published within Inside the Minds™ Improving Marketing Performance ©2010 Thomson Reuters / Aspatore

In a company with sales revenues of 33 million dollars as a distributor of professional audio and video presentation, I led all aspects of Vcom division Comprehensive and played key role as Managing Director of the ProCon Digital Systems brand. Directed and successfully completed 2006 acquisition of a 49-year-old company providing commercial sound and CCTV equipment. Prepared and presented annual business plans including forecasts and budgets, plus sales / marketing plans for the board of directors of Vcom. Successfully established startup and positioned Company for acquisition as a leading provider of digital video products. Implemented a direct sales strategy for the Comprehensive division that ignited revenue growth by 41% and increased profit margins for fiscal year 2007 vs. the same period of 2006. Drove Company to consistently achieve significant sales growth: • 2004: 15% vs. 2003 • 2005: 22% vs. 2004 • 2006: 26% vs. 2005 • 2007: 41% vs. 2006