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Greg is a 20+ year veteran of the AV industry, having started his career in the production equipment sales side and quickly branching into AV and commercial installations. He worked in parallel with other low-voltage trades, often working in access control, security, and nurse call systems. For most of the past ten years, Greg has worked in higher education with campus technology departments, designing classrooms, auditoriums, and various types of conference systems.   Greg has presented at a number of conferences in the past focusing on campus standards development and other areas on in-house integration topics.  He's helped publish several universities' AV standards.  
Greg holds Crestron's Masters in Commercial Architecture, Level 3 Dante, QSC Level 2 and Video level 1.  Greg holds CTS-D and CTS-I certifications and has been active with AVIXA’s Standards Steering Committee and other Standards task forces.  Formal education includes an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with and Emphasis in Entrepreneurial Management and a Masters of Engineering in Engineering Management.  Greg is a US Army Veteran and was a Combat Communications Specialist during his time in uniform.

Certified with his CTS-D, CTS-I, L. William Nattress III, is the Director of Consultant Relations for Biamp. With more than 30 years of professional AV experience, Bill spent 17 of those years in a leadership role with Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC. He has extensive project management experience in the design, engineering, installation and integration of audio, video, conferencing, and control systems. Bill has been active in AVIXA through the early Professional Education and Training Committee (PETC), served on the Certification Subcommittee and the InfoComm Board of Directors and the Leadership Development Committee, and was the PETC chair. He has taught numerous design tracks and networking courses for AVIXA and other industry affiliations. Bill’s leadership in the technical research and editing of InfoComm’s power and grounding curriculum garnered him the InfoComm’s Educator of the Year awarded in 2009 and the CTS of the year in 2017. Mr. Nattress was inducted into the SCN Audio Visual Hall of Fame in 2021.