Welcome to USAV Bandwidth,  a show hosted by Chris Salazar-Mangrum, Vice President of USAV, and Patrick Whipkey, Director of USAV, to share their expertise and have insightful conversations with professionals from the AV industry.

During COVID the AV industry had to adapt to the new circumstances of the market to stay afloat. Today we can say that far from only surviving, the industry has begun to reinvent itself and innovation is coming back stronger. In this episode, we talk to Cheryl Walton, the new Director of Business Development at USAV Group. Cheryl shares with us a little bit about her career, the new trends of the industry, and we discuss how USAV will be raising the tide for all its integrators in the next five years. Join in and learn how this new team will be leading the AV industry into a new era of technological development. 

Jump straight into:

(00:11) - Who is Cheryl Walton?: Her career in the AV industry - “I started at Kramer and I really wanted to be an outside salesperson. I was there for about 10 years in all various roles.”

(03:08) - Let’s have a bit of fun: Two truths and one lie + Cheryl’s life motivation - “An old manager of mine always said, have fun or it's not worth it.” 

(06:32) - How can we be the rising tide? Elevating the whole industry - “Something that the USAV Group can start doing is having the big manufacturers support the smaller manufacturers.”

(09:52) - Getting into the competition: USAV’s 5-year-plan - “It's going to be a living, working document that things are going to change. We're going to have to edit this plan, but you ultimately need something to work towards.”

(13:10) - New entertainment in these exciting times - “Entertainment took a big hit, we see that that's coming back to some degree, but it's the creativity now that I think is going to start evolving.”

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