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 complexity 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.
Founding Digital Home Convergence Designs 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, 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.


