Anthony Grimani is a highly respected expert in home theater acoustics and design. He was named one of the “50 Most Vital Influencers” by CustomRetailer magazine and inducted 
as Fellow of the CEDIA trade association. In 2013, CEPro Magazine named him one of the “Top 20 Most Influential People of the Past 20 Years.” His more than 25 years of industry experience include executive positions at Dolby and Lucasfilm THX. At Dolby, Anthony was intricately involved in the development of surround sound for consumer applications. During his nine-year tenure at THX, he managed the THX consumer licensing program and the technology development program, setting the direction for consumer and professional Audio/Video businesses. Anthony developed the Home THX program, the THX PM3 program, and invented the revolutionary Surround EX 6.1 channel audio format pioneered in Star Wars, the Phantom Menace. He’s a frequent lecturer at industry conferences such as AES (Audio Engineering Society) and CEDIA 
(Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association) and earned the CEDIA Top Instructor award. Anthony holds
 six patents in the area of audio and acoustics. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. He’s been passionate about music and technology since he was a young man. He studied at the Music Conservatory in Paris and tinkered with gear lying around his father’s amateur audio workshop. Born in Asia and raised in Europe, Anthony speaks three languages fluently. He resides in Marin County with his wife and daughter.

Manny LaCarrubba developed the principal acoustics technology of the revolutionary CinemaOne Audio Ensemble, the Conic Section Array™ waveguide. Manny’s work in this area started in the mid 1990s, he then founded Sausalito Audio to commercialize patents related to this work. This intellectual property has been integrated into commercial products manufactured by Bang & Olufsen of Denmark. Earlier in his career, Manny spent a decade as a staff and later chief engineer at famed Sausalito recording studio, The Plant. His music engineering credits include tracks and albums for Santana, Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Kenny G, Mariah Carey, 
and many more. He also designed some of The Plant’s seminal recording rooms. Manny earned a Bachelor of Science in Tonmeister Studies from State University of New York at Fredonia. He holds several patents related to loudspeakers, and he is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Manny lives in Marin County California with his singer/songwriter wife. For fun he does music production work, practices kung fu and yoga, and drives his car at unsafe speeds.

David Steel is a serial entrepreneur and longtime audiophile. His unsighted college roommate introduced him to the transcendent powers of state-of-the-art audio systems, playing the Eagles, Elton John, the Doobie Brothers and other favorites of the era. When Dave had an opportunity to build a dedicated listening room, he sought out experts in acoustics and design. An extensive search led him to work with Grimani Systems’ cofounders Anthony Grimani and Manny LaCarrubba. A consummate sales professional, in 1983, Dave cofounded American Ad Management, which provides marketing services for all media platforms, including Internet Marketing Pay Per Click performance based Search Engine Marketing, Internet Yellow Pages, Print Yellow Pages, Video Production, Commercials, and Search Engine Optimization. He served as the firm’s vice president from 1983-2005, and as president from 2005 and 2013. Dave holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Santa Barbara. He resides in California with his wife. They have two adult children.