Mission Statement
Digital Home Convergence Designs' unequivocal focus is to provide advanced, yet simple-to-use media distribution and home automation solutions that hide all the complexities of the underlying technologies.
Carl Gadener
Founder and Chief Visionary Officer (CVO)
Carl has a MSc. in Computer Science from Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm, Sweden, and has more than twenty years of experience in the Computing and Digital Home industry.
Carl was involved in the early adoption of emerging technologies, including the Java ™ platform, and early prototypes of the networked home. He was instrumental in driving the adoption of these technologies, and their success, in the global marketplace. He has held several lead engineering, engineering management, program management, and technical evangelism positions at Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox.
For more than 30 years, Carl has had a passion for everything Audio/Video related, and has managed to amass an extensive music and movie collection he enjoys with his family. His vast professional and personal experience in both the analog and the digital space of the consumer industry, has prepared him well for the challenges facing consumers attempting to manage their media and home electronics in this emerging network centric world.
Founding Digital Home Convergence Designs, Inc. in
August of 2007 marked the culmination of those experiences.
Melanie Gadener
Vice President, Customer Experience
With a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, Melanie has spent the past twenty-five years working in Silicon Valley as a business development and managerial professional, and a business performance coach and consultant.
She has worked extensively with Fortune 500 companies and large public agencies, including: Sun Microsystems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard Company, the State of California, and the U.S. Federal Government.
At Digital Home Convergence Designs, Inc., Melanie
is especially adept at developing strategic alliances with our
customers, integrators, product vendors, and builders. She is
committed to ensuring each step of our service delivery
results in a win:win for all of our supply chain participants
and end-customers.
Shoshanna Lefcourt
Director of Business Development
Shoshanna brings nine years of Business Management and Sales experience to Digital Home Convergence Designs, Inc. Over the past six years she has specialized in building up sales teams from initial start-up roles into highly profitable and high-performing teams. In addition, she has been responsible for creating, managing and executing highly successful targeted marketing and sales campaigns.
Between 2005-2009, Shoshanna held a senior management position with HiFX, Inc., a global financial services company specializing in foreign exchange. She started as an inside Business-to-Business (B2B) sales consultant during the start-up phase of the Advisory Services of North America, and within a year she expanded her responsibilities to managing her own team. Shortly thereafter she progressed into managing the entire North American B2B sales staff with +$2m yearly revenue goals.
In 2008 she received the Woman's Achievement of the Year
Award, by the prestigious
Cambridge Who's Who
organization. In addition to receiving several revenue goal
awards, she was awarded Employee-of-the-Year 2007 at
HiFX.
Last Updated: May 30 2010 10:46:07
