Mark Friedman
Mark brings 23 years of factory and rep experience to the management of The New York Marketing Team. Mark's most recent experience was as President of JBL Consumer Products where he was involved in worldwide sales, marketing, and product development for the JBL loudspeaker brand as well as the Pyle and Concord brands. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Product Development worldwide for Carver Corporation. Mark spent over 10 years as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Onkyo USA Corporation. Before Mark's involvement in factory management, he was a sales representative in the New York Metropolitan marketplace representing JVC and Akai. Mark was the keynote speaker for the Audio Segment at the 1991 Winter Consumer Electronic show.
Steve Glatzl
Steve started in our industry by working at retail for Audio Exchange and Harvey Electronics from 1968 to 1986 and rose in the ranks from Store Manager to Co-General Manager of Harvey's from 1984 - 1986. From 1986 to the present, Steve has been an independent rep in New York beginning with the firm of Newman Marketing which became Sound Decisions. He has extensive product and technical knowledge in the field and is one of the best known and most respected reps in Metro New York.
Nick Gavalas
Nick is very knowledgeable in all aspects of home audio, in particular, custom installation and has personally done numerous installations as the owner of his own retail and custom company. He is very conversant in mobile audio as well and is MECP First Class Certified. Nick comes to The New York Marketing Team directly from a two year stint with one of New York's premier video distributors, Diplomat Merchandise.
John Bodovinac (CAVD Associate)
John is a 27-year veteran of the A/V industry building his career in Metro New York. After earning a bachelor of science degree from Monmouth University, he started his career as a hard-goods manager for the Sam Goody retail chain in the late 1970s. He advanced his career by going to work with Audio Associates as one of their manufacturer's representatives where he remained for the next eleven years. John was then promoted to head up a newly formed subsidiary of Audio Associates, AAC, the distribution arm of the rep company. For the next six years, as general manager of AAC, John was key inestablishing the company as a market leader in the custom installation as well as the retail market.
Reuben Eskenazi (CAVD Associate)
Reuben started his audio career at Sam Ash Music in New York. Over the next fifteen years, he held
sales and operations positions with several major audio video retailers. Being a musician and doing audio production rounded out his experience in both the commercial and residential audio and video fields. Reuben has an extensive technical background and conducts regular training seminars. Prior to joining The New York Marketing Team, Reuben was operations manager for five years at AAC, a leading Cedia focused distributor in New York.
Pat Dwyer
Pat is the Administrative Assistant for The New York Marketing Team providing all in-house support, follow-up and tracking for the team, as well as regularly communicating through e-mail, fax and phone with our dealers.
