Girls in Client Expertise Provides New Advisory Board Members
CEDIA’s Amanda Beckner and Kaleidescape’s Norma Garcia-Muro Be part of
Girls in Client Expertise (WiCT), a corporation that promotes the development of girls within the shopper know-how business, as we speak introduced two new members to its advisory board. Amanda “Mandy” Beckner, CEDIA’s Vice President of Schooling and Coaching, and Norma Garcia-Muro, Vice President of Advertising at Kaleidescape, carry the board’s whole to 16 members, together with Founder Carol Campbell. The advisory board counsels WiCT on its training, teaching, and mentorship initiatives, in addition to its annual receptions, networking programming, and the annual Legacy Awards program.
“The ladies who make up our advisory board maintain many roles and are available from numerous disciplines and backgrounds — all contributing to the evolution and innovation occurring within the CT sector,” stated Carol Campbell, Founding father of WiCT. “Mandy and Norma will add much more perception and experience that could be a helpful a part of reaching WiCT’s mission of empowering girls within the subject. Each are well-known and extremely revered, and we’re happy to welcome them to the board.”
Beckner has been within the professional AV and residential business for greater than 23 years. In her present place, Beckner strives to make CEDIA the main international authority for training and certification within the good house business. She performed an instrumental position in main CEDIA’s Built-in Techniques Certification to worldwide ANSI/ISO accreditation in 2022. As Vice President of Studying at AVIXA, she led the digital transformation of the affiliation’s curriculum, stewarded three AVIXA certifications and a number of requirements to ANSI/ISO accreditation, and constructed an lively international community of over 250 training, certification, and requirements volunteers. As President and COO of THE rAVe Company, she led long-term technique and operations and oversaw the expansion of the LAVNCH program. Beckner holds a Bachelor of Arts in training research from the Catholic College of America and a grasp’s in communication, tradition, and know-how from Georgetown College.
“Girls are main the tech business to nice heights, and it’s with assets and assist obtainable from WiCT,” stated Beckner. “I’m so excited to be a voice in serving to information this pivotal group ahead and assist the ladies who’re a part of this nice business!”
Garcia-Muro is an leisure business veteran with a background in movement image, house leisure, and premium cinema know-how. Earlier than becoming a member of Kaleidescape, she held positions with Paramount Photos, Lucasfilm Ltd., Dolby Laboratories, and THX Ltd. She can be a consummate motivator and mentor with a ardour for empowering younger girls with various backgrounds inside the business. She has served as a mentor of UNIC Girls’s Cinema Management Program and is a present member of Girls in Tech and Girls in Exhibition. As well as, she based the Latino Worker Community MUNDO below Dolby’s Variety and Inclusion program. In 2021 and 2020, Garcia-Muro was named one of many Prime 50 Girls in International Cinema; she can be the recipient of WiCT’s 2023 Carol Campbell Inspiration Award.
“I’m wanting ahead to championing the mission and group of Girls in Client Expertise,” stated Garcia-Muro. “We reside in a profoundly related and international world, and corporations which are extra various, carry new feminine views, and domesticate position fashions will obtain higher efficiency.”
See all of the WiCT’s present advisory board members right here.
