The recipient of CEDIA's Lifetime Achievement Award will typically have accumulated years, if not decades, of experience, leaving a legacy within the Smart Home Technology industry through their accomplishments.
This award not only celebrates their vision & innovation but also honors their commitment and influence in leading and shaping the future of the industry and is one of the highest CEDIA honors an individual can receive.
This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated a lifetime of innovative and visionary leadership in the Smart Home Technology industry.
The purpose of this award is to recognise and celebrate an individual who the industry deem worthy of a Lifetime Achievement Award, and is one of the highest honours an individual can receive. Since 1992, the programme has highlighted some of the industry's most influential people including the most brilliant entrepreneurs, inventors, engineers, and leaders.
Past Winners Requirements
Rich Green
2024
Steve Moore - SMC
2023
Carol Campbell - Technology Designer LLC
2022
Will West - Control 4
2021
Eric Smith
2021
Michael Heiss - M. Heiss Consulting
2020
Mitchell Klein - CEDIA
2019
Joel Silver - Imaging Science Foundation, Inc.
2018
Eric Bodley - Future Ready Solutions
2017
Chang Park - URC
2016
J. Robert Stuart - Meridian America, Inc.
2015
Frank White - Stay Tuned
2014
Bob Schluter - Middle Atlantic Products, Inc.
2013
Ken Erdmann - Erdmann Electric, Inc.
2012
Don Stewart - Stewart Filmscreen Corporation
2011
Joel Spira - Lutron
2010
Floyd Toole - Floyd Toole
2008
George Feldstein - Custom Electronic Design
2007
Bill Skaer - Bill Skaer and Associates, LLC
2006
Billilynne Keller
2005
Andrew Goldfinch - LeisureTech Electronics
2004
Theo Kalomirakis - Theo Kalomirakis Theaters
2003
Scott Struthers - Sonance
2002
Tom Doherty - Doherty Design Group, LLC
2001
John DeSilva - JDS Marketing
2000
Tomlinson Holman - Audyssey Laboratories Inc.
1999
Ivan Zuckerman
1998
Brad Kibbel - SONY
1997
Bill Cawlfield
1996
Jana Stevens
1995
Chris Stevens
1995
Sam Runco - Planar
1994
Maureen Jenson - Audio Video Interiors Magazine
1993
Albert Langella - Audio Design Associates, Inc.
1992
2024
Rich Green has been a prominent professional in the AV industry since 1978. His system integration company, Rich Green Design, serves the ambitious homeowners and businesses of Silicon Valley. His clients have included Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Tony Fadell, Jim Clark, Gordon Getty, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Luciano Pavarotti. Rich travels the world as an instructor, consultant, and public speaker in the fields of Future Technologies and Design.
2023
Steve Moore decided against a career in architecture to launch a business selling high-end AV to music-loving homeowners nearly 40 years ago. He then left to set up SMC in 1993 and, inspired by a visit to CEDIA Expo that year, helped to launch CEDIA in the UK, running it alongside his own company from his London dining room, subsequently teaching at numerous CEDIA events worldwide.
SMC, like the industry in general, has grown enormously since then, and Moore has consulted for a wide variety of technology businesses, large and small, along the way. With strong successors running SMC, Moore is now semi-retired, and continues to support others operating in the connected home space.
2022
For more than 25 years, Carol Campbell has been a driving force in the consumer electronics industry. A well-recognized and respected expert in advancing the art of home theater interiors and marketing technical products and luxury goods to women, Campbell utilizes her considerable experience and industry expertise as the managing director of the Technology Insider Group and as co-publisher and partner of Technology Designer magazine. She is also the co-founder of the Elf Foundation that builds “Rooms of Magic” in children’s hospitals and the founder of Women in Consumer Technology.
2021
2021
2020
2019
Klein is a 30-plus year industry veteran who has dedicated his career to educating the industry, building, creating and implementing strategic businesses and programs, and leading companies that helped bring smart home and custom installation into the mainstream.
He is known for kicking off many key initiatives for CEDIA in almost every area including operational, educational, financial, legislative, and marketing.
Examples of Klein’s work include initiating and implementing CEDIA’s first strategic plan, the creation of an operating budget and reserve fund, introducing the CEDIA certification program and management conference, and many other policy and promotional projects.
In the 2019 custom installation market Klein is hailed as a leader in IoT, consumer electronics, home automation, and the integrator market.
2018
Joel founded the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) in 1994, introducing video-calibration services to the consumer-electronics industry and training calibrators to provide those services. He has also consulted for the high-end audio/video, telemedicine, and medical-management industries. He is the producer of the HDTV Calibration Wizard DVD and co-inventor of the Microsoft Windows Display Calibration Wizard, which is now installed on over 111,000,000 PCs.
He frequently volunteers his time to the industry. For example, Joel has served on the CEDIA Awards Technical Judging Panel for the last several years, and he has been a popular instructor at CEDIA Expo. He also volunteers as the chair of the CTA and CEDIA committee on home-theater video recommended practices.
2017
For the past 40 years, Eric has worked in nearly every aspect of the consumer electronics industry. Early in his career, he developed the custom installation division for specialty electronics retailer Sound Advice in Florida, and then, after forming Bodley & Associates, trained hundreds of sales associates with his IHAVS (In-Home Audio Video Specialist) programme. From 1995 – 2009, he launched a myriad of products and programs for Monster Cable Products and started Florida Home Entertainment Design, a CEPro Top 100 Integrator and CEDIA member. In 2009, he was recruited to launch the revolutionary Perfect Path brand of Locking HDMI Cables by PPC, and most recently founded Future Ready Solutions — a national distributor of digital connectivity and fibre cable products for the commercial, residential, and retail markets.
2016
Chang K. Park is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist and a visionary. In the early days of the industry, Mr. Park foresaw the birth of the "home theater" in America and changed the course of control by expanding his company beyond producing remote controls for subscription broadcast providers and many of the world's most recognized brands to sophisticated RF remotes and control devices for the custom installation industry. Mr. Park has been developing and marketing advanced remote controls and home automation products for more than 25 years.
In addition to his achievements within the industry, Mr. Park chairs the Chang K. Park Foundation, an organization that supports human rights, the elimination of poverty and hunger, the implementation of political reform and economic justice. He is also a member of the national governing board of Common Cause, a public interest organization in Washington DC, the board at the Union Theological Seminary in New York and Bread for the World. Mr. Park holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from his alma mater, and recently was inducted into the Academy of Electrical Engineers. He also holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
2015
J. Robert Stuart, known by his friends as Bob, started his career as a consultant for the audio industry. Since those early years Bob has maintained a unique impact on the custom integration market in two ways: his products and concepts with the Meridian brand, as well as his work establishing new technologies and formats which continue to shape the world of entertainment, including the new British technology Master Quality Authenticated (MQA).
Stuart’s involvement in the industry goes far beyond the extensive list of products and concepts of which he has been a part of, CEDIA noted. He is actively involved in several organizations that have pushed the boundaries of performance of new audio formats that have been pivotal in the industry. Stuart is an active member of the DVD Forum, and a Fellow of AES; a member of ASA and a visiting Fellow at Essex University.
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1997
Brad Kibbel (then Director of New Products for SONY Corp of America) became one of the founders of the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA) due to his drive and passion in imagining the art of the possible; how electronics might be combined with software and integrated into our homes and lives. He frequently collaborated with technology companies engaged in similar quests. Apple senior management held Brad's opinion and insights in particularly high regard. All of this culminated in Brad being enshrined posthumously in the CEDIA Hall of Fame – one of the first executives from any manufacturer to receive this honor.
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1992
Individuals making the nomination of an Individual should provide answers to the following questions: