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Ed Jaeger
CEO, CFO
Ed Jaeger has over 23 years experience in financial and manufacturing operations management. Prior to joining Wisdom Audio, Ed had been with BG Corporation (formerly known as Bohlender Graebener) for 12 years where he held the title of CFO and for a period of time was the company's president. During his tenure at BG Corporation Ed was instrumental in managing operations, building relationships with vendors, growing distribution and revenues. Prior to BG, Ed worked as a chief corporate accountant in two different manufacturing companies where he also contributed to operations management: Mission Country Photo Finishing for six years and Twentieth Century Plastics for five years. Ed has a business degree in finance and accounting from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mark Glazier
President
Mark Glazier has been associated with the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of audio products for more than 30 years. He is most well known for his twenty one years at Madrigal, an industry leading and award winning manufacturer of high-end consumer electronic products, which eventually became a division of Harman International. For sixteen of those years Mark served as president, focused on the development of worldwide sales and marketing efforts for their Mark Levinson, Proceed, Revel and Audioaccess consumer audio/video and custom installation brands. Mark was a principal architect of the company’s sales and marketing strategies, managed domestic and international distribution to over forty countries, created customer support policies, contributor to product evolution strategy and mentored and directed team development. Prior to Madrigal, Mark was engaged at Threshold Corporation and Dayton Wright Associates in sales management and production manager roles, respectively. Mark studied psychoacoustics at the University of New York at Buffalo.

David Graebener
Executive Vice President
David has been involved with the design and development of transducers and systems for more than 30 years and is an authority on planar-magnetic design. David began his audio career in the late 1970s as co-founder of Speakerlab, a Seattle-based loudspeaker design and manufacturing company. As a pioneer in the development and application of planar-magnetic transducers, David joined Tom Bohlender to found the Bohlender-Graebener company in the early 1990s. David has been sought after as a consultant for transducer development, with a focus on planar-magnetic applications. David is owner of Advanced Transducer Engineering and co-founder of Solution Matrix and has completed design work for Boeing, American Technology Corporation, NCT, Pacific Car and Foundry, Carver, Toshiba, Onkyo and Eastern Asia Technology Company. David has been involved in the authoring of several patents granted or pending related to planar-magnetic transducer design and is associated with the development of more than 130 electro-acoustic designs.

Jon Herron
Vice President, Sales
Jon brings over 25 years experience in both large and small retail operations, as a manufacturer's representative, and as a manufacturer to Wisdom Audio. Most recently as a national training director at Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, Herron led enterprise-level training and technology initiatives directed at both salespeople and installers. At Madrigal Audio Laboratories, Herron was the product development manager for Mark Levinson, Proceed, and other brands. As the director of sales and marketing of Snell Acoustics, Herron directed the company’s efforts into the home theater business in the early 1990s. Herron has authored a book that is used as the core product training program focused on the audio video category for two industry trade groups in the United States, and is the most comprehensive textbook of its kind. Herron has an economics degree from Dartmouth College.

Eric Graul
Vice President, Manufacturing
Eric brings to Wisdom Audio over 13 years of experience in specialized product manufacturing, including process documentation, process flow requirements, and industry-leading quality assurance. Prior to joining Wisdom Audio, Eric served as Production Manager for seven years at BG Corporation (formerly known as Bohlender Graebener). He applied his manufacturing and management experience to efficiently grow the company’s production capabilities. During his tenure with North Sails, a racing sail manufacturer, Eric honed his expertise in production methods and quality control, exceeding the expectations of the company’s high-end distribution partners and customers. Eric has implemented several MRP (Materials Resource Planning) and inventory control systems and together with his extensive knowledge of quality control processes in specialty product manufacturing, will guide Wisdom Audio’s production efforts as the world’s leader in architectural loudspeaker systems. Eric has an electronics degree from University of Wisconsin.

Todd Sutherland
N. America Western Region Sales, VP Marketing & Sales Operations
Todd joins Wisdom Audio with over 20 years experience in the high-end consumer electronics industry. Most recently, he served in operations and sales management positions for five years at Kaleidescape. Previously, he worked with Jon Herron and Mark Glazier at Madrigal Audio Laboratories from 1995-2003, first in inside sales, then in marketing and ultimately held positions as NW regional manager and Revel product manager. Todd began his audio career working for Combak Corporation, a military market electronics distributor and then was hired by Nakamichi Gmbh to oversee the European distribution channel for mobile audio products. Todd’s knowledge of the consumer and custom installation channels, along with his experience in CRM administration, sales and support processes, will help the Wisdom Audio team exceed the expectations of the market’s premiere custom installation dealers and distributors.

David Michno
Director of Operations
David has been involved with managing the design and manufacturing of various products for more than 20 years. He was an early employee of Bohlender/Graebener (BG Corporation) and served as principle engineer designing the majority of their line while also acting in the role of production manager. David comes to Wisdom with 13 years experience in the design and manufacturing of planar magnetic transducers, including prior engineering and design management experience at BG Corp., American Technology Corporation, and Cygnet, as well as time spent with General Electric, Rancho Engineering, and ITT Barton. David earned an associates degree in electronics.

Robert Smith
Special Operations
Robert has accrued 12 years experience in the audio industry, working in both manufacturing and design of planar technology. Before joining Wisdom Audio in 2001, he oversaw production of more than 10,000 planar magnetic transducers at BG Corporation (formerly known as Bohlender Graebener), for seven years, giving him practical experience in the assembly process and insight into planar magnetic transducers. Robert set up and adjusted many of Wisdom’s legacy Adrenaline and Infinite loudspeaker systems worldwide that included the Analog Brain and subsequent DCAB-1 Digitally-Controlled Analog Brain. His extensive knowledge of planar technology and installation calibration serves Wisdom Audio uniquely in the design and manufacture of future planar products.

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