Women in Consumer Technology 12th Annual (Virtual) CEDIA EXPO Luncheon

Architect & Designer Program Senior Manager
Control4

Danielle Karr is the Architect and Designer Program Senior Manager as well as the Certified Showroom Program Senior Manager, Marketing at Control4, where she connects with interior designers and architects to explore and shape the future of smart homes and the professional design industry.

Principal Designer & Owner
Molly N Switzer Designs, LLC

Upon graduating in 2008 I took a job with an interior remodel company in a design and sales position. The economy forced the closure of the company less than a year after I started, and I was learned to rely upon the connections made with the NKBA to convince a local fabricator to hire me on at a part time basis. After six months I was promoted and put into a full-time position in showroom sales where I continued to exceed sales goals and create profitable programs to extend the company’s business. I stayed with Precision Countertops for seven years before deciding it was time to move onto a new challenge. I took a position with Chown Hardware in their residential sales department to help ease the transition of a new sales manager after the retirement of the original residential showcase manager after 30+ years at the helm. After a year I decided it was time to spread my own wings and I was in a position where I was able to open my own interior design firm. Molly N Switzer Designs LLC was launched on June 15, 2017 and has been an incredibly rewarding challenge. I am able to combine my love for product knowledge and industry relationship building by hosting Independent Designer Training opportunities in my home. inviting an intimate group of local independent designers to attend product education training to better our industry community and introduce amazing products and their reps to fellow designers. Molly N Switzer Designs LLC focuses on residential interior design with emphasis on kitchen and bath, I am a one woman show that has loved the process of developing and evolving my business. It is my goal to keep my business as uncomplicated as possible for both myself and my clients. I focus on transparency, communication, honesty and trust in my business as well as my everyday life. My business can take on several shapes as I am needed by my clientele, from role as a contracted specifier to designer of entire home interiors complete with construction plans, specifications and a trusted ear to bend during the most stressful of processes. At the end of the day I carry the title of client advocate and conduct my business in a manner that helps to alleviate as much stress to the home owner as possible in several different ways. I find a certain joy sharing the knowledge I have gained in the industry on products, best practices and specialty trades partners who have proven time and time again to be amazing resources to my clients. In the past couple years I have grown increasingly interested in the home connected technology world. I’ve been lucky enough to partner with an amazing local company who continues to push the envelope of what technology can do for the home and its owner. Their team is leading the way for the changes that are about to occur that will greatly affect the way design is done regarding lighting, power efficiency etc. It has been a valuable partnership and I am excited to be able to bring Pro Tech Solutions services to the table with my clients and learn and grow with their teams. On the side I run training opportunities for local designers out of my home, we host lunch and learn and happy hour opportunities for product reps to come in and educate each of us to a greater level of their latest product launches as well as new lines. It’s a small group community education opportunity set in a neutral location for designers to bounce ideas off one another, plus continue conversations about how a product might be best used in certain scenarios and past experiences. Learning together builds a stronger design community. I enjoy the opportunity to connect with student members of the design community and becoming a point of contact to them as they start down the path of transitioning from student to professional. With personal experience making the scary change I know how important it is simply to have someone to sound off to and hear about the everyday ins and outs of the professional world. It is my hope that through community involvement in the kitchen and bath industry that I have the ability to help educate and strengthen the core of our membership in order to best serve the clientele of our community.

CEO, Sales & Marketing Director
Integration Controls LLC

Jamie Briesemeister is a co-founder and the current CEO of Integration Controls, a company that simplifies one’s experience with entertainment, ambiance, comfort, and peace of mind through design-oriented, connected technology solutions. While Jamie navigates ongoing business development and sales, her passion is in education and bringing teams together, especially those in design/build environments. She is an active Board member and volunteer for the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA), and as a CEDIA Outreach Instructor (COI), she offers CEUs and other educational sessions for architects and interior designers. Jamie is a member of the National Kitchen & Bath Association and the American Society of Interior Designers, where she volunteers within the St. Louis chapter to promote collaboration, camaraderie, and inclusion of technology in the designed environment. She has spoken on numerous panels, taught classes, and has presented at KBIS/IBS, NARI’s Big 50, and more. While technology is her business, Jamie does not profess to be a ‘techie’ and would rather tend to her garden or go on a long hike!

Show Director
Emerald Expositions

Ashley Sprengnether is the Associate Show Director over CEDIA Expo at Emerald X and has been part of the planning, organizing, and executing of the event for the past 12 years. Each September, she looks forward to bringing the residential technology community together, through the CEDIA Expo platform, to network with old and new colleagues, learn, and discover new products.

Founder
Women in Consumer Technology

For more than 25 years Carol Campbell has been a driving force in the consumer electronics industry. A well recognized and respected expert in advancing the art of home theater interiors and marketing technical products and luxury goods to women, Ms. Campbell utilizes her considerable experience and industry expertise as the Managing Director, Technology Insider Group, publishers of The Insider e-Newsletter and as Publisher/Partner of Technology Designer and TechnologyDesigner.com. She is also the co-founder of the Elf Foundation that builds “Rooms of Magic” in Children’s Hospitals and the founder of Women in Consumer Technology.