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ILDA Founding Members


ILDA Founding Members are the original laserists who attended the first organizational meeting in Lake Tahoe in August 1986. (We also have a list of members who attended the second meeting, an East Coast organizational meeting in Boston in November 1986.)

Founding Members who are still active in ILDA as of 2006 include:

  • Tom Harman of Laser Production Network (now LaserNet)

  • Jim Martin of Peachtree Laser

  • Walt Meador of Laser Rentals, Inc.

  • Todd Rogers of Beamin' Lasers

  • Tim Walsh of Laser Spectacles

 

ILDA Founding Members                     

Name   Company
Len De Benedictis

Norman Kelly

Tom Gaule

Mitch Hartmann
John Tilp

Scott Blake

Paul Rosenberg
Dick Collier
Kevin Ostler

Robert Falbo
Craig Cherboneau
Emely Wilson

Floyd Rollefstad

Tom McWilliams
Mike Klein

Bill Smith

Clay Davis

Ron Goldstein
Seiji Inatsugu
Barbara Inatsugu

Tom Harman
Fred Read

Tim Walsh

Pat Bishoff
Pat Dugan

Joe Gerlach

Ron Polloch

Walt Meador

Jim Martin

Dr. Richard Iacobucci

Dick Sandhaus

Mike Scott

Todd Rogers

Martin Poettgen

Frank Gibeau

Mike Werner

 

  Coherent

Entertainment Technologies, Inc.

Evergreen Company

Foresight Visuals
Foresight Visuals

Image Engineering

Ion Laser Technology
Ion Laser Technology
Ion Laser Technology

Laser Dreams
Laser Dreams
Laser Dreams

Laser Fantasy

Laser FX
Laser FX

Laser Ionics

Laser Light Systems

Laser Media, Inc.
Laser Media, Inc.
Laser Media, Inc.

Laser Productions [now LaserNet]
Laser Productions

Laser Spectacles

Laser Rays, Inc.
Laser Rays, Inc.

Laserama

Laseron Lighting

Lone Star Lasers

Peachtree Laser

Roctronics Lighting & Special Effects

Science Faction (SFC)

Spectra Physics

Stage Sound

tarm SLL Technik GmbH

Visulux

Werner Communications

 


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