AV100 - Final Results

Paul Milligan, 14 November 2008

The AV100 voting has closed and we have finished counting all your votes on who you think are the 100 most important people in the a-v industry. Voters chose on the basis of the following criteria: Quality of services provided, level of influence within the industry, and work done to promote the industry.

Here is the top 20;

Jon Sidwick - MD - Maverick
Andrew P. Smith - UK Development Manager - Kramer Electronics
Roland Dreesden - MD - Reflex
Gordon Innocent - Director - RGB
Alan Wilkinson - Leisure Systems Manager - Electrosonic
Rob Sheriff - Partner/MD - Red Solutions
Tony Reed - AV Recruiter - Creative Personnel
Jon Lane - MD - Smart-e
Stephan Paridaen - President, Media & Entertainment Division - Barco
David Dalzell - MD - Onelan
Kevin Murphy -Development Director - Event Communications
Lee Spencer - MD - XL Video
Stuart Holmes - MD - PSCo
Ed Cook - CEO - AVM
Ian Myhill - European Sales Manager - Peerless Industries
Dale Miller - VP EMEA - Christie
Dave Bethell - Owner - Just Lamps
Ian Aitken - UK Account Manager - Sanyo
Jim Moore - BM - DSGI
Alan Marshall - Technical Director, proAV

Invitations will be going on very soon to the lucky nominees for the event to honour the top 100, held at the Portland Spa Hotel and Conference Centre on Thursday Dec 11th.

Congratulations to Jon Sidwick for topping the list and to all those nominated.

n.b. AV100 rules stated that only one individual per company (the one with the most votes) could be nominated so this did lead to some people unfortunately missing out