by Bob Archer | Jun 9, 2026 | News, RoseWater Energy
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RoseWater Energy Expands Sales Network with Appointment of Eastern Regional Sales Manager, Jeff Miller
With deep roots in the custom integration industry and a proven track record of driving channel growth, Miller will help luxury systems integrators throughout the Eastern U.S. leverage RoseWater Energy’s industry-leading power solutions to create new revenue opportunities while addressing the growing demand for reliable, resilient power in today’s connected homes.
PLANTATION, FL – June 9, 2026 – RoseWater Energy, the leader in advanced power conditioning, energy management, and storage systems for luxury homes, announces the appointment of Jeff Miller as its new Eastern Regional Sales Manager. Covering all territories east of the Mississippi River, Miller will help expand RoseWater Energy’s presence among luxury residential systems integrators, designers, architects and other building professionals while advancing the company’s mission of making power management a critical component of every high-performance home.
Miller brings more than two decades of experience in the CEDIA channel, including 12 years as a custom integrator and leadership roles with some of the industry’s most recognized technology brands, including TiVo, eero, WyreStorm, and URC. His extensive background spans AV distribution, networking, and control systems, giving him a unique understanding of the challenges integrators face in designing, deploying, and supporting today’s increasingly sophisticated home technology systems.
In his new role, Miller will focus on strengthening dealer relationships, developing new business opportunities, and helping integration partners recognize the critical role power plays in overall system performance, reliability, and profitability.
“Jeff’s experience as both an integrator and manufacturer representative gives him tremendous credibility with our dealer partners,” says Joe Piccirilli, CEO of RoseWater Energy. “He understands firsthand how integrators operate, the challenges they encounter in the field, and the pressure they face to deliver flawless technology experiences. Just as importantly, he understands that power is often the hidden culprit behind many of the issues dealers spend countless hours troubleshooting. Jeff is uniquely positioned to help our partners identify those opportunities and grow their businesses.”
Miller was drawn to RoseWater by both the company’s reputation and its unique ability to solve one of the industry’s most overlooked challenges. “Throughout my career, I’ve worked across virtually every major category in the integration business—video distribution, networking, control systems, and entertainment technologies,” says Miller. “The one thing missing from my toolbelt was power. What I’ve discovered is that RoseWater is the best-in-class solution for addressing the complex power issues that impact every subsystem in a home. This is the first time I’ve worked with a company that sits at the very top of its product category, and the opportunity to work alongside Joe and the RoseWater team was something I couldn’t pass up.”
Miller believes many integrators still underestimate how much power quality affects system performance, long-term reliability, and service demand in the field. “Every device that plugs in shares one thing in common: power,” he says. “Yet too often, when a system becomes unstable, dealers look first at software, networking, programming, or installation practices, while power is rarely treated as a primary suspect. For custom integrators, there is a real opportunity to view power not simply as another product category, but as a way to solve problems, reduce callbacks, improve the client experience, and create a meaningful new profit center.”
Another key differentiator that impresses Miller is RoseWater Energy’s concierge approach. RoseWater Energy gives custom integrators a clear path to offer advanced power solutions while helping protect their time and profitability through hands-on support throughout the sales, design, installation, commissioning, and deployment process. “Our partners don’t need to invest in additional trucks, warehouse space, installation personnel, or specialized expertise,” he explains. “RoseWater handles the logistics and commissioning, allowing dealers to focus on what they do best while benefiting from a premium solution that adds value to every project. Margins continue to shrink across many product categories, but power represents an opportunity to add a high-value solution without adding significant operational overhead.”
With the addition of Miller, RoseWater Energy further strengthens its national sales organization and commitment to helping integrators deliver exceptional technology experiences backed by clean, conditioned, and reliable power.
To learn more about the state of electrical power in the U.S., its impact on home technology, and solutions that clean, condition, and regulate incoming electrical power to ensure optimal performance and longevity of connected devices, please visit www.rosewaterenergy.com.
About RoseWater Energy
RoseWater Energy understands that Power is the Foundation® for any smart home. The company designs and manufactures a complete solution providing both power conditioning and consistent energy, as well as surge and lightning protection for the main power source, solar input, and standby power, along with analytics and remote monitoring in a redundant industrial-grade system made for large, high-end residences and commercial environments.
Committed to building Simply the Best® energy management system on the market, RoseWater Energy HUBs work 24/7 and are always providing clean power in any situation – including during normal grid operation as well as grid spikes, surges, brownouts, or power outages. RoseWater HUBs are built with full power conditioning functionality and zero-transfer-times between power sources. These unique features enable technology integration professionals to reduce or eliminate a plethora of unnecessary and expensive client service calls due to power issues and instead, provide peace of mind. White-glove support ensures a successful outcome. RoseWater will work with authorized integration firms to help design, build, integrate, and manage a custom Power Plan™ specific to the needs of each project. For more details visit www.rosewaterenergy.com.
RoseWater Energy Media Contact
For interviews, reviews, and more information please contact Katye McGregor Bennett of KMB Communications at (406) 446-1283 or katye@kmbcomm.com.
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by Bob Archer | Jun 8, 2026 | Blog
It’s one thing to see sales data from sources such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), but if anyone had any question about the revival of stereo, they need to attend events like AV Therapy’s seasonal marketing promotions.
Each year, the N.H.-based specialty retailer/custom integrator AV Therapy holds spring and fall marketing events to bring together local music fans while showcasing its products and services.
Kicking off its 2026 festivities, the technology integration company held its spring marketing event, shifting gears to a certain extent. For the spring event, John Rein, principal partner of AV Therapy, held an event that not only appealed to traditional audiophiles and music fans, but an event to reflect the latest trends in home AV.
“At AXPONA I saw a lot more young couples and single females, which is a demographic I never thought we would ever reach,” says Rein.
“We see turntables everywhere. I don’t see all-analog everywhere, we have people streaming, and high-end is exploding. High-end is taking over our business. I keep bringing in more expensive components to meet the demand. People with money are looking for more ways to spend money.”
AV Therapy Remains Loyal to Core Customers
With its location in Southern New Hampshire, roughly 50 miles north of Boston, Rein and the staff at AV Therapy know their clientele are primarily looking for high levels of performance and value. So, while increasingly catering to more of the luxury, high-end side of the home AV market, the integrator has not forgotten its long-time clientele.
“We didn’t go super high-end for this show,” comments Rein.
“We are doing a lot of mid-fi for this show. For this event we are showing brands like SVS and Advance Paris.”
Another trend beyond the increase in high-end product sales AV Therapy is experiencing, Rein points out is that Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980) are returning to the hobby of music listening. Stepping up and rediscovering their love of music, he says these consumers are purchasing products from manufacturers like Linn and Luxman.
Circling back to some of the products and companies on display during the Spring 2026 event, Nick Brown, vice president of marketing for SVS, was on hand demonstrating the company’s Ultra Evolution Titan loudspeakers and the SB-3000 R/Evolution Subwoofer.
Using components from Luxman and Linn to round out the demo system, Brown explained the SVS product features and he answered questions from event attendees.
Following a similar approach as Brown, Joe Yerardi, director of strategic accounts for Advance Paris, demonstrated products like the A10 Classic Integrated Amplifier and the NOVA A-i190 Integrated Amplifier.
Reiterating the point on the revival of home audio, Rein emphasized the reception by AV Therapy clients for the spring event has been overwhelming with the event quickly filling its attendance quota.
“The first day we sent out the invitations, more than 140 people had responded,” adds Rein.
The latest episode of the AV Trade Talk Podcast focuses on the topic of stereo and the growing trend of analog rooms in the design community. To check out the discussion with Paul Bochner from AHT New York Metro and Joseph Cali from Gryphon Audio LA, click here.
by Bob Archer | Jun 5, 2026 | Blog, KMB Communications
Unlike the past few weeks, the first week of June 2026 was filled with noteworthy items worth coverage in KMB Comm’s weekly tech industry recap.
Included in the barrage of news from this week’s media cycle, we will shamelessly self-promote ourselves for a moment and point out that KMB started the week out with a blog that provides some helpful information on AVIXA’s move into the domestic residential technology event space.
Looking at this week’s news and the residential technology market, the KMB Comm technology review has items from The Listening Chair and Future Audiophile.
Expanding our coverage to a national level, Connected Design, LinkedIn, and Yahoo also had coverage of the global brands Samsung and Apple. Wrapping up our look at the week’s news will conclude with how the latest “Star Wars” movie is performing at the box office.
KMB Comm is Enthralled with the State of Home Audio
Stereo or 2-channel audio is back, and the home technology integration market is in a good position to offer homeowners a range of solutions that spans everything from entry level turntables to exotic audiophile loudspeakers.
With stereo’s revival in full swing let’s look back for a moment with The Listening Chair with its retro audio column. In a column written by the Md.-based dealer Just Audio, the website revisits the Onkyo M-510 amplifier.
In the column Just Audio says, the M-510 is, “a prime example of a vintage Japanese ‘monster’ component [that] is so legendary that it is often spoken about in the same breath as classic amps from high-end brands like Krell, Mark Levinson, and Accuphase.”
Just Audio also points out was sold between the years of 1984 to 1992 for $3,800 at launch, which is equivalent to about $10,000 today.
Staying in home audio, The Future Audiophile has an opinion column that focuses on the hotly debated topic of taking your time when making thoughtful decisions related to home audio.
The author, Jerry Del Colliano, offers some reasonable advice to anyone thinking about getting into the audiophile hobby or maybe reinvesting into an older system. He says first to take your time and limit the variables with any change to your home audio system. He says that each new upgrade could be impactful to the performance of a system. He continues by noting that if you have a component on loan from a dealer to take your time in evaluating the product and the changes in your system.
Del Colliano also underscores that price doesn’t always equate into performance, so he says don’t be swayed into a decision based on the price of a component.
The Week in National Technology News
The first global technology market item in this week’s KMB Comm Tech Week in Review comes from Connected Design.
In the story, Connected Design reports that less than a year after moving into a facility in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., the company is interested in moving its U.S. headquarters to Plano, Texas.
The story adds that currently there are about 1,000 employees in the N.J. location and most of that staff will be reassigned to the new location in Texas.
The next two stories come from LinkedIn.
The first LinkedIn story covers the release of the new Microsoft quantum chip that was developed with AI.
LinkedIn states the new Majorana 2 is said to offer higher levels of performance, including a 1,000-fold improvement in reliability.
Staying on the LinkedIn website, Apple is preparing to compete against Meta by release its version of smart glasses.
Picking up a report form Bloomberg, the LinkedIn post says that Apple plans to release the glasses in late 2027 with the goal of capturing a piece of the $200 billion eyewear market. The only issue the story continues, is that any delay could provide Meta the opportunity to larger foothold in the category.
Closing out the KMB Comm Technology Week in Review is some bad news for fans of Grogu.
Yahoo posted a story on the massive drop at the box office Disney’s “Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu” experienced this past weekend. According to Yahoo, the film’s box-office revenues dropped nearly 70% from its $81.6 million opening weekend to $25 million in its second weekend.
The story goes on to point out that going forward competition at the box office will only increase to make it more difficult for Disney with the movie to match previous levels of box office success like past titles from the movie franchise.
That competition by-the-way includes “Masters of the Universe,” “Disclosure Day,” and “Supergirl.”
For more content from KMB Communications, check out this blog on the innovative WOW!house 2026 exhibit in London. Included in the blog is a link for a podcast Katye McGregor Bennett did with Andrea Harvey that provides more detail on this exhibit’s combination of design and technology.
by Bob Archer | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog, KMB Communications
Design friends, AV friends, and everyone living somewhere in the wonderfully messy middle—WOW!house 2026 is officially on our radar, and it should be on yours, too.
Opening this week at Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, WOW!house brings together extraordinary interiors, exceptional design talent, and full-sized rooms that show what happens when creativity, craft, collaboration, and vision are allowed to run wild—in the best possible way.
What has us especially excited? Technology is part of the story.
The Nucleus Immersive Room by Russell Sage Studio is a beautiful example of how expertly specified and thoughtfully integrated technology can enhance the way a space feels, functions, supports comfort, and creates a more immersive, intuitive experience. Not as an afterthought. Not as “the tech stuff.” As part of the design itself. Imagine that.
WOW!house Brings the Biggest Names in the Design Community Together
At KMB Communications, this is the kind of alignment we’ve been championing for years: A thoughtful way of bringing integrators, designers, architects, brands, media, and clients into more meaningful conversations earlier, more often, and with mutual respect for what each discipline brings to the home.
We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we do keep a close eye on where the important conversations are happening. And this is one of them.
The integration channel belongs in design-led rooms like these. The design community benefits when technology is represented well. And the best outcomes happen when both communities are invited to the same table—preferably before the walls are closed and someone says, “Wait… where are you putting that keypad?”
Bravo to WOW!house, Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, Russell Sage Studio, and integrators like Nucleus for showing what’s possible when technology and design are treated as partners in the experience.
The exhibit runs from June 2 to July 2, 2026, and exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information and tickets visit: WOW!house 2026: https://www.dcch.co.uk/wowhouse/
To learn more about WOW!house, check out the latest Connecting Tech + Design Podcast hosted by KMB Communications‘ Katye McGregor Bennett. In this episode, Andrea Harvey, director of Design and Build Outreach for CEDIA, discusses the role of technology in creating immersive design experiences. The new episode of the Connecting Tech + Design, is available here.
by Bob Archer | Jun 2, 2026 | KMB Communications, News, Nice
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Nice Expands Western U.S. Representation with Thomasson Marketing Group
New partnership strengthens dealer support and drives growth for 2GIG solutions across key regional markets.
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 1, 2026 — Nice, a leading provider of Smart Home and Business Solutions, has announced a new partnership with Thomasson Marketing Group, Inc. (TMG), further strengthening Nice North America’s regional representation and support for 2GIG solutions across the Pacific Western United States. Working closely with Nice’s Regional Sales Managers (RSMs), TMG will provide local dealers and distribution partners with an additional layer of field support, resources, and expertise.
This strategic partnership reinforces Nice North America’s ongoing commitment to expanding localized sales expertise, dealer engagement, and market development within the security and smart home channel.
“Regional representation plays a critical role in how we support our partners and drive growth in key markets,” says Donnie McVicker, Chief Sales Officer, Nice North America. “Thomasson Marketing Group brings strong relationships, deep industry knowledge, and a proven ability to execute at the local level. Their focus on dealer engagement and sell-through initiatives will help expand the reach of our 2GIG portfolio and support our partners’ success across this important region.”
With this partnership, Thomasson Marketing Group will represent 2GIG solutions across Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Led by President Jordan R. Thomasson, TMG has built a strong reputation for delivering strategic sales representation and channel development within the security and low voltage electronics industries. Through this relationship, Nice North America continues to invest in its regional representation strategy, ensuring dealers and distributors have access to the resources, expertise, and support needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive market.
“We’re excited to partner with Nice North America and represent the 2GIG portfolio across such a dynamic region,” says Thomasson. “2GIG continues to be a trusted name in the security and smart home space, and we look forward to helping dealers grow their businesses through strong local support and market development.”
For more information about Nice North America products and dealer programs, visit www.niceforyou.com.
About Nice
Founded in the early 1990s, Nice is a global leader in Smart Living Solutions, offering a complete range of integrated solutions for gate automation, garage doors, solar shading systems, parking systems, wireless alarm systems and home security, for residential, commercial and industrial applications; smart and connected systems for residential and commercial applications, for the security, access control, AI (Artificial Intelligence), comfort & wellness, control and power/AV sectors. Nice has embarked on a strategic path of expansion and extension of its portfolio of connected solutions and platforms to offer a wide choice of customizable solutions and ease of use for the end user. This is complemented by strengthening and expanding in markets with high growth potential, as well as a renewed branding activity to compete in new market segments. Today Nice can rely on an organization of over 2,000 people on 5 continents, boasting a wealth of different skills and cultures, as well as 14 R&D centers and 13 production plants serving its partners and customers in over 100 countries worldwide.
About Nice North America
Nice North America, LLC, a subsidiary of Nice, is one of the largest manufacturers of smart residential, commercial, and industrial solutions in the world, providing integrated smart living experiences. They offer seamless and easy-to-install technology for smart home control, security & automation, perimeter access and protection, including hostile vehicle mitigation, sunshade solutions, power management, and entertainment. Based in Carlsbad, CA, at the heart of Southern California’s innovation corridor, the company drives innovation through a network of advanced R&D and manufacturing centers across the region, with major operations in Kent, Olive Branch, and Montreal, Canada. Supporting professional integrators, dealers, and distribution partners, the company offers award-winning programs, hands-on technical support, field training, and CEU-certified education initiatives designed to help accelerate business growth. Nice North America lives out their mission of creating environments where individuals truly feel unbounded, safe, and free through smart solutions – an impact exemplified by its support of the Gary Sinise Foundation R.I.S.E. program for wounded veterans – and strives toward building a brighter and more sustainable future.
About Thomasson Marketing Group, Inc.
Specializing in Sales & Marketing Services to the Electronic Security, Systems Integration & Low Voltage Electronics Industries, TMG is a sales & marketing firm providing manufacturers representation and consulting services to manufacturers while delivering innovative quality products in the Pacific Western States. www.TMGRepGroup.com
Nice North America Media Contacts
Nice North America Agency Contact: Katye McGregor Bennett of KMB Communications at (406) 446-1283 or katye@kmbcomm.com.
Nice North America Corporate Contact: Anggie O’Farrell, Marketing Communications Specialist, (619) 761-0623, anggie.ofarrell@niceforyou.com.
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