Mike Teolis is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal Canada with a BA in Economics. He subsequently obtained a brokerage/ trading license. He started a sales career in the audio visual industry in ’92, ascending to a VP sales/marketing position leading the growth a small regional audio visual company to Canada’s largest integrator with 11 offices and 225 employees. In 2008, Mike Founded with partner Maurice Gaudio GAV MGMT a Montreal based Residential integration company that in 2012 brought to market a low voltage lighting solution that would complement other audio/video low voltage technologies offered by the company. In 2016, Teolis and Gaudio launch Colorbeam Lighting to bring low voltage lighting solutions to the North American AV channel.