Kevin Buchanan - President

Kevin has worked in the high-end specialty A/V retailing and Custom Installation industry for over 30 years. His experience spans everything from component calibration to complete home automation.

Over the last 20 years his system designs have been incorporated in countless homes, commercial applications, and several different types of private aircraft. These designs have also been published on the national level (1990 cover story Audio Video Interiors magazine, 2002 feature story Audio Video Interiors), and on the regional level (1993 cover story of Texas magazine). He has been on the product design dealer counsel for several audio manufacturers over the last 20 years and he is actively involved with CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association). In 1993 he was THX certified for theater design by LucasFilms Ltd. at Skywalker ranch.

In the late 1980's he was heavily involved with the FROX system which was one of the first hard-drive based A/V control devices. His excitement for the technology turned to disappointment as he realized the technology was not yet ready. Like most integrators, he turned to companies like AMX and Crestron to combine the capabilities of different technologies and simplify the operation of high performance systems. While he had success with these platforms, he was dissatisfied with their complexity, the number of specialized parts, the required custom programming, and their overall cost effectiveness. When he and his brother Michael (retired President of Simplex-Grinnell) opened Home Entertainment Inc. in 2005, they decided to break from traditional A/V specialty retailing and focus on Windows XP based Media Servers with Xbox Media Center Extenders.

In 2006 and 2007, Home Entertainment Inc. was chosen as one of the Top 40 Hybrid Dealers in the United States by CE Pro magazine. HEI has had great success using wireless tablet devices in conjunction with XBOX Media Center Extenders to provide cost effective control of multi-room audio and un-tethered video.

Chris Morley - Executive Vice President

Chris Morley is a trend-setting system designer with a decade of experience, specializing in first to market, customer-centric high performance system designs. His proven track record includes rapid implementation of digital cable tuners, enabling Velocity Micro to be the first in the world to offer this cutting edge technology. He is a computer gaming hardware guru with multiple Editor's Choice Awards under his belt including the first Editor's Choice awarded to Velocity Micro by CNET in over three years for a category-busting system design.

He is an expert in the "out of box experience" with a point of view that has been honed to a fine point by extensive experience with competitors' products and services when he was a technology journalist evaluating system integrators from a customer perspective. His unique perspective on the industry and understanding of the competitive landscape in such an intimate manner gives a distinctive edge to his clients.

Chris excels at top to bottom product launch strategies and execution. He has launched and sustained dozens of products in his career, including digital audio workstations, home/home office machines, high performance workstations and post-production editing systems, laptops, and media centers. He has helped his clients compete at the Tier 1 level with projects such as Windows Home Server technologies.

Chris is a whole home digital media convergence visionary, and a Media Center pioneer and technology driver. He closely collaborates with companies like Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel on next generation products and helps them define feature sets, target markets, and positioning as needed.

Advisory Board

Bob Stearns

Managing Director, Sternhill Partners
Former Chief Technical and Strategy Officer, Compaq Computer Corporation

Dr. Scott Cutler (Ph.D., MIT)

Professor, Rice University Former PC Group CTO, Compaq Computer Corporation

Rick Knox

President & CEO, Altrix Logic, Inc. Former President & CEO D2 Audio Corporation