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The Agency Group That Learned to Speak Engineer
Dundee Hills Group built a portfolio around a stubborn idea: in technical markets, fluency beats flash. Its agencies do not need a glossary before they start writing - they arrive knowing the acronyms, editors, trade shows, and buyers.
Tobi Tungl Makes Marketing Earn Its Place in the Room
The CTI chief marketing officer began by pulling cable and commissioning systems. Two decades later, he is still testing every message the same way: does it work in the real world?
Tim Bigoness Keeps Time for a Business Built on Better Timing
Before he sold software that puts unruly projects in order, Tim Bigoness ran live television, waited for checks at a magazine he co-founded, and learned to hold a band together from behind the drums. At D-Tools, that lifelong instinct for timing became an operating philosophy.
The 1,000-Foot HDMI Problem Celerity Solved With a Connector You Can Pull Through a Wall
The Irvine hardware maker turned fiber installation into two verbs - pre-wire and connect. Its detachable system now carries uncompressed 8K video up to 1,000 feet, but the real product is less time spent fighting conduit, interference and tiny strands of glass.
Soundvision’s Quiet Trick: Turn Installer Frustration Into a Five-Brand Hardware Company
Soundvision spent years inside walls, racks and living rooms before it began manufacturing the gear. Its useful playbook is simple: let installers reveal the friction, build products around that friction, then keep the channel close enough to tell you what breaks next.
The Blinking Box in Your Closet Is Quietly Becoming a Software Company
NETGEAR has spent 30 years making the box that blinks in your closet. Now it is trying to turn that hardware into recurring revenue - and in 2025, for the first time in five years, the bet moved the numbers.
Jim Reinhart
Jim Reinhart is the CEO of TEKVOX, a New Braunfels, Texas company reshaping the professional audiovisual industry with factory-built, pre-programmed Drop-In AV systems for classrooms, meeting rooms and complex spaces. A Rice University electrical engineer with more than 35 years in technology, he built his career across semiconductors and startups, co-founding and leading Luminary Micro, the lead partner on ARM's Cortex-M3 processor, through its 2009 acquisition by Texas Instruments. At TEKVOX he pushes a simple conviction: AV is IT, and it deserves the same discipline, standardization and lifecycle management as the rest of an organization's technology stack.