Brian Ratliff spent more than fifteen years as a specialist in Event Production Technology before founding Event AVL. During those years Brian developed his philosophy of Event Production, which is based on excellence, quality, and expertise. His unique perspective and experience has allowed him to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in the traditional event production management approach. These insights have become the foundational principles of Event AVL so clients are assured of top-notch service that guarantees superb events.

Elaine Shih's background spans over 10 years of theatre administration and management. She has found that no matter where you work, be it Box Office Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival or Event Coordinator of four nationally touring children's shows, customer service is the cornerstone of a successful company.

The Event AVL team consists of local and contract employees hired nationwide whom we have personally worked with in the past in successful event engagements.

We do this for three reasons: Cost, Manpower & Equipment

1. It keeps our overhead low resulting in cost savings for our clients.
2. It allows us to choose people we know who are experienced in the areas specific to our client’s event needs.
3. It allows us to have access to wide variety of AV and other equipment that is up-to-date.


But the primary reason we do it this way is for our clients


Cost, manpower and equipment are the three biggest hurdles both the client and the Event Provider must face in staging an event. Our experience is that when manpower and equipment are compromised in terms of experience, expertise and quality—costs increase as well as the number of unforeseeable problems. One way we cut costs is by hiring only experienced personnel. A less-is-more approach applies in avoiding unnecessary hires where one experienced employee can do the work of four lesser trained or less experienced staff members.

Our guarantee to you is that your event will be manned not only with experienced event personnel who will project a clean and professional uniformed appearance at all times, but also that they will be equipped with only the best equipment to ensure a safe and successful event.