Recon Research catches up with the CEO of the largest AV integration company in the world …
AVI-SPL is the result of the 2008 merger of two AV powerhouses – Audio Visual Innovations (AVI) founded in 1979 and headquartered in Lakeland, FL, and Signal Perfection Ltd. (SPL Integrated Solutions) founded in 1992 in Columbia, MD.
Today, AVI-SPL has a workforce of more than 2,400 people distributed across its 40+ offices in the US, Canada, the U.K., Germany, and the UAE. The company has completed more than 70,000 integrations since 2008, and boasts a massive customer roster including 85% of the Fortune 100.
In this 11-minute video available FREE for any registered users, RR’s Ira Weinstein and AVI-SPL’s John Zettel discuss a handful of key topics including:
- AVI-SPL’s recent (and ongoing) shift into a services-first mindset
- The main challenges that AVI-SPL’s customers are facing today
- How AVI-SPL handles global AV and collaboration requirements
- What John expects will be AVI-SPL’s biggest challenges in the next 3 – 5 years

This video was recorded using the REC.VC cloud-based video conferencing recording and streaming service.