About Us

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 Gadener

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. Expand

Melanie Gadener

Vice President, Customer Experience

Melanie Gadener

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. Expand

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