John Badovinac
John is a 30-year veteran of the A/V industry in Metro New York. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Monmouth University, he started his career as a hard-goods manager for the Sam Goody retail chain in the late 1970s. He advanced his career by going to work with Audio Associates as one of their manufacturer's representatives where he remained for the next eleven years. John was then promoted to head up a newly formed subsidiary of Audio Associates, AAC, the distribution arm of the rep company. For the next six years, as general manager of AAC, John was key in establishing the company as a market leader in the custom installation as well as the retail market.
Reuben Eskenazi
Reuben started his audio career at Sam Ash Music in New York. Over the next 15 years, he held sales and operations positions with several major audio video retailers. Being a musician and doing audio production rounded out his experience in both the commercial and residential audio and video fields. Prior to forming CAVD, Reuben was operations manager for 5 years at AAC, a leading Cedia focused distributor in New York.
Mark Friedman
Mark brings 23 years of factory and rep experience to the management of CAVD/DDGmetro. Mark's most recent experience was as President of JBL Consumer Products where he was involved in worldwide sales, marketing, and product development for the JBL loudspeaker brand as well as the Pyle and Concord brands. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Development worldwide for Carver Corporation. Mark spent over 10 years as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Onkyo USA Corporation. Before Mark's involvement in factory management, he was a sales representative in the New York Metropolitan marketplace representing JVC and Akai. Mark was the keynote speaker for the Audio Segment at the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronic show.
Steve Glatzl
Steve started in our industry by working at retail for Audio Exchange and Harvey Electronics from 1968 to 1986 and rose in the ranks from Store Manager to Co-General Manager of Harvey's from 1984 - 1986. From 1986 to the present, Steve has been an independent rep in New York beginning with the firm of Newman Marketing, which became Sound Decisions. He has extensive product and technical knowledge in the field and is one of the best known and most respected reps in Metro New York. Steve brings his life long experience to the CAVD Team.
Tim Sorrentino
Tim has been a lifelong audiophile and music lover. While attending Drew University in Madison NJ he sold “HiFi” components out of his dorm room and set them up for his clients. Upon graduating he did sales for high-end retailers (Sound Systems, Atlantic Stereo and Stuarts Audio) with the most recent being an 18-year stint at Harvey Electronics. He has extensive experience designing and selling “Dedicated Personal Theaters” including room acoustics and isolation. He has designed and overseen the installation of many audio and control systems. Tim has excellent product and technical knowledge and brings his many years of experience to CAVD allowing our clients to continue to receive the superior customer service they are used to.
Lisa Wolenski
Lisa has over 24 years of administration and customer service experience. Lisa started her career as a customer service rep for a manufacturer and was quickly promoted to executive secretary assistant. For the last 12 years she has worked with a manufacturer covering various areas of responsibilities from customer service, network administrator, sales liaison, office administrator, and accounting assistant. Lisa brings her many years of experience to CAVD allowing us to continue giving our customer superior customer service.
