His passion for music and technology began in the third grade when he received his first Fender electric guitar. He then proceeded to learn every Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, and Led Zeppelin song he could. In high school, his passion for music manifested with 4-track-recording improvisational jam sessions with his jazz bandmates. In Atlanta, at Emory University, he double majored in Computer Science and Economics, while his musical pursuits found new instruments, new recording technologies, and weekly DJ residencies in Buckhead and downtown Atlanta.

Immediately after college and before graduate school, Brad held an interim job at Stereo Exchange in Lower Manhattan, where he was first introduced to the world of high-end audio and home automation. He began installing and programming Crestron systems and racks of Meridian and McIntosh equipment. With a strong desire to work for the companies that created musical recording and production equipment — now all moving into the digital realm — Brad furthered his education at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research and Musical Acoustics, earning a Master’s in Music, Science, & Technology. The studies at Stanford included focuses on Digital Signal Processing, Recording, Electrical Engineering, and Human-Computer Interaction. In a program of fewer than 10 students, Brad was able to have close and personal interactions with professors that included Max Matthews, one of the founders of Digital Audio at Bell Labs, and Bill Verplank, who pioneered the invention of the computer mouse at the prestigious Palo Alto Research Center. Brad’s final thesis project included building a MIDI drum machine from scratch and using it to perform an original song on original software that allowed multi instrumental tracks (guitar, bass, and keyboard) to be recorded live, looped, and manipulated in real time while simultaneously performing a turntablist’s scratch track.

After graduation, Brad realized that everything he had learned both in college and in his hobby recording studios could be applied to this rapidly growing field of digital media technologies and automation systems. Working with the top companies in Palo Alto and Los Angeles, Brad programmed and managed the largest and most complex automation and theater systems for the highly discriminating clients. With guidance from a good friend who was both a supervisor and mentor, Brad returned to school to further his career beyond programming and project management and push himself into new challenges. Receiving a merit scholarship to attend USC’s Marshall School of Business made leaving his job that much easier, and he went back to school with the hopes that this move put him in the position where he could successfully run his own business doing what he most loved.

Brad used his business, technical, and musical knowledge to start his own company, and shortly after completing his full-time MBA program with Honors, Michael Silver and Bradley were introduced and decided to join forces in Los Angeles and create a branch of Audio High that could handle the most complex theater and automation systems from day one. And they did.