An unexpected lighting job took Greg Christy from theatre into live events. Decades later, the Brite Ideas co-founder is still working out how to give a room a story - and give his team room to run.

A computer science graduate with a lighting desk habit, Michael Nabarro built Spektrix after running a theatre. His work keeps returning to the same question: what could people do if the machinery stopped getting in their way?

A backyard shed gave Fusion Audio + Video its start. Aaron Cowden’s harder project has been building a company that can keep its promises after the equipment is switched on.
Before Harlowe, Helena Bian spent years making lighting for other brands. Then the engineer with a lifelong interest in art began asking why the tools behind a beautiful image so rarely looked the part.