AESLA & AESSF Present: Evolving Your Audio Career

Evolving Your Audio Career with John Krivit, Jonathan Ruest, Rachel Ludeman and Brad Delava

This is a co-presentation with the San Francisco and Los Angeles AES Sections.

AES Past President John Krivit shares 15 important strategies for anyone at any age to advance and evolve their audio career.  He’ll be joined by three experts who will comment on their own personal experiences evolving from student to professional.

Rachel Ludeman * Employment Coordinator at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences
Jonathan Ruest * Head of Sales & Business Development, Neumann
Brad Delava * Founder/CEO of Clique Digital Marketing

Join us on Tuesday June 29th at 7:00p PDT (10:00p EDT)!

Sign up in advance here. The Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees through Eventbrite.

Speaker Bios:

Brad Delava
While attending The New England Institute of Art from 2008 until 2011, Brad led the school’s AES Student Chapter, organized local AES events, and won the student recording competition at the 2010 AES show in San Francisco, CA. Prior to graduating, Brad began working with Apogee Electronics – where he would eventually spend the first 9 years of his professional career. While he started as an intern – packing boxes in the warehouse and fulfilling other various tasks – Brad joined the marketing team soon after graduating and moving back to Los Angeles full time. Over those years, Brad was responsible for all of Apogee’s PR, Artist Relations, Advertising, Events, Product Launches, Copywriting and managing a variety of partnerships. The small and scrappy Apogee team as well as his broadly defined responsibilities allowed him to have his hand in virtually every aspect of the business and sharpen his skills in a multitude of areas. Working with artists such as Foo Fighters, Diplo, Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Beyonce and Justin Timberlake as well as strategically coordinating Apogee’s partnerships with Apple, AVID, Sennheiser, The Recording Academy and KCRW are among his proudest accomplishments in this role.

In 2018, Brad left Apogee to start his own digital advertising and media agency — a far departure from the world of audio he had known up until that point. Since then, his agency (Clique Digital Marketing) has run campaigns for clients such as SanDisk, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chevrolet, Quiznos, Yale Locks and many others. His agency is a trusted partner of The Trade Desk – one of the largest platforms for programmatic digital advertising and this has afforded him the opportunity to consult for some of the top agencies in the country as well as hedge funds looking to invest in the highly-lucrative advertising industry. He and his company are currently responsible for directly managing roughly $50-million in annual advertising spend for their clients and partners.

John Krivit
John Krivit has been teaching audio technology classes at colleges in Massachusetts since 1996. He is a Past-President of the international Audio Engineering Society serving 2015-2016. He was the Chair of the AES Education Committee from 2010 to 2015 where he built a vibrant global community of educators, students and institutions. His work as an educator has been defined by an unrelenting passion for connecting his students to gainful and rewarding careers in all facets of the audio industry. John served as Chair of the 2018 AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration at the US Library of Congress and was Chair of the 2018 and 2019 AES High School Audio Educators Conferences. Currently, he is Director of Education at Professional Audio Design of Hanover, Massachusetts and does consulting with other manufacturers of audio technology. John chronicles the events and opportunities available to audio students of all ages through his “Hey Audio Student” Facebook group. John Krivit lives at the intersection of audio, education and industry and continues to speak at audio events around the world.

AES Awards
In 2019, John Krivit was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of chairing the 2018 International AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration.

In 2019, John Krivit was presented with the AES Fellowship Award for conspicuous commitment to audio student education and mentorship.

Non-AES Awards & Award Nominations
2002 Inabeth Miller Outstanding Teacher Award
2008 Norm Prescott Outstanding Teacher Award
2014 Certificate of Merit from the Boston AES Section for dedicated service to the Audio Engineering Society and valuable contributions to Audio Education throughout the world.
2018 Board of Governors Award for Chairing the 2017 AES Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration at the US Library of Congress

Rachel Ludeman
Employment Coordinator at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. CRAS is a premiere, top rated technical school specializing in audio engineering and music production. Her work involves aiding alumni of the program, preparing and guiding them in obtaining work in the audio industry.
Rachel takes pride in the strong connections and relationships she has cultivated in the industry over the past 11 years.
Joining forces with employers and facility owners across the United States, she loves connecting the dots and linking them up with their newest qualified employees.

Jonathan Rues
From an early age Jonathan had a passion for all things audio. After interning at a local recording studio during his high school years, he went on to study Audio at Emerson College in Boston, MA. It is here he began to become intrigued in the business of audio through working with various manufacturers to host events with the campus AES student section he was a member of. Shortly after college, now living in Los Angeles, Jonathan began working in sales for Apogee Electronics Corporation. For the last six years, Jonathan has been working for the Sennheiser Electronics organization. Having started as an Area Sales Manager in the professional division, Jonathan is now tasked with heading up the sales and business development for Neumann in the Americas.