Raising the Bar for Professional Audio Visual Services
At Event AVL, we work as a team with the best people in the industry, and that is what separates us from our competition. We manage all of the technical elements and production services of events, and we take on what we know we can handle, leaving nothing to chance!
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Brian Ratliff
President
Brian Ratliff spent more than fifteen years as a specialist in Event Production Technology before founding Event AVL. During those years Brian developed his philosophy of Event Production, which is based on excellence, quality, and expertise. His unique perspective and experience has allowed him to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in the traditional event production management approach. These insights have become the foundational principles of Event AVL so clients are assured of top-notch service that guarantees superb events.
brian@eventAVL.com
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Elaine Shih
General Manager, Managing Member
Elaine Shih's background spans over 10 years of theatre administration and management. She has found that no matter where you work, be it Box Office Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival or Event Coordinator of four nationally touring children's shows, customer service is the cornerstone of a successful company.
info@eventAVL.com
Professional Freelance Consultants
The Event AVL team consists of local contract employees hired nationwide whom we have personally worked with in the past in successful event engagements.
We do this for three reasons: Cost, Manpower and Equipment
1. It keeps our overhead low resulting in cost savings for our clients.
2. It allows us to choose people we know who are experienced in the areas specific to our client’s event needs.
3. It allows us to have access to wide variety of AV and other equipment that is up-to-date.
But the primary reason we do it this way is for our clients!
Cost, manpower and equipment are the three biggest hurdles both the client and the Event Provider must face in staging an event. Our experience is that when manpower and equipment are compromised in terms of experience, expertise and quality—costs increase as well as the number of unforeseeable problems. One way we cut costs is by hiring only experienced personnel. A less-is-more approach applies in avoiding unnecessary hires where one experienced employee can do the work of four lesser trained or less experienced staff members.
Our guarantee to you is that your event will be manned not only with experienced event personnel who will project a clean and professional uniformed appearance at all times, but also that they will be equipped with only the best equipment to ensure a safe and successful event.