SoCal Rep Firm AV Partners Announces New Vendors and Team Appointments

Exhibiting 12 brands at the March 19/21 SoCal CEDIA Tech Summits, including new additions Screen Innovations, URC, and Lenbrook

Channel veteran Danny Thompson joins the team as Regional Sales Manager

Thousand Oaks, CA – March 13, 2024 – Eric Leicht, president of Southern California independent manufacturers sales representative firm AV Partners, today announced the addition of Screen Innovations, URC, and Lenbrook to the firm’s portfolio. AV Partners will be exhibiting these and nine other key brands at the March 19 and 21 SoCal CEDIA Tech Summits. In addition, channel sales veteran Danny Thompson has joined the firm.

“Screen Innovations, URC and Lenbrook are all leaders in their categories, each bringing something special to AV integrators and their homeowner clientele. Their addition to AV Partners’ portfolio is perfectly in-sync with our planned expansion into shading, lighting, and control,” says Leicht.

Danny Thompson brings four decades of consumer electronics experience. For the last three decades he has held sales and training roles with Oliver Marketing, MK Marketing, Savant and Kaleidescape, and has earned numerous industry awards and certifications (ISF). Thompson covers San Diego, Inland Empire, and Arizona for AV Partners.

Leicht furthered “AV Partners has always been a ‘hands-on’ rep firm. We are on multiple job sites every day, helping dealers with everything from speaker placement to taking measurements for FDA variances for LASER projectors. With myself, Martin, John, and K.C, we have lots of territory relationships and collective knowledge, but when it comes to things like troubleshooting a large HDMI matrix switching system, it can often be ‘all hands-on deck.’ With Danny’s vast expertise, it makes us that much more of a resource to our partners. We, along with our vendors and dealers are thrilled to have Danny onboard.”

AV Partners CEDIA Tech Summits Exhibit

Leicht invites all dealers in SoCal to visit AV Partners exhibit at the March 19 Orange County and March 21 Los Angeles CEDIA Tech Summits. There, the company will be exhibiting Screen Innovations, URC, Lenbrook (Bluesound, NAD, DALI, PSB), Harman Luxury (Arcam, JBL Synthesis, Lexicon, Revel, Mark Levinson), AudioControl, Digital Projection, FutureReady Solutions, Kordz, Lumagen and Samsung.?

Meet the AV Partners Sales Team

AV Partners covers So. California, So. Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. The sales team consists of Eric Leicht (Los Angeles, Hawaii); John Villano (Central Coast, Ventura County, Pasadena, Las Vegas); K.C. Frazier (Palm Springs and inside sales); Martin Byrne (South Bay, Orange County); Danny Thompson (San Diego, Inland Empire, Arizona).

For AV Partners media inquiries, contact Paul Muto / Muto Communications, [email protected], 516.662.5374.

About AV Partners AV Partners is a unique manufacturer’s rep firm that operates as both a traditional sales representative and a consultant. For the brands that we represent, we offer product training, field specification and technical support. We also keep up to date on ALL the best brands in the industry, even if they are brands that we do not currently represent. That is how we can help you achieve the best performance for your AV systems. Our team has over 40 years of experience in: planning, designing, installing, and calibrating audio and video systems; we have the expertise to help you through all aspects of your project. While our design and specification services are often free of charge, we do offer fee-based services for audio and video calibration for various types of systems, including screening rooms, home theaters, whole-house audio, commercial 70v sound systems, auditoriums, large screen displays, MicroLED displays, projection systems and outdoor systems.?If your project is in Southern California, Southern Nevada, Arizona or Hawaii and you elect to use brands that we represent, it is in our best interest to help you. www.avpartners.org