George Feldstein, 73, founder and chairman of Crestron Electronics, died Tuesday after a year-long battle with brain cancer. "His passion and love for our industry was evident in everything that he did,” said the company in a written statement. Feldstein…
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started Crestron in 1969, working out of a small room above a delicatessen in New Jersey. His first products, controllers for slide projectors, were followed by a wireless remote for commercial AV systems. The company is known as one of the main players in automation. Feldstein received a lifetime achievement award from U.K.-based AV Magazine in October, as editor Clive Couldwell cited Feldstein’s “passion about high-quality engineering.” Couldwell recounted the tribute of a former staffer who called Feldstein “the smartest engineer I have ever met -- absolutely brilliant -- and he never sleeps.” Feldstein was a “force of nature, and he expects everyone around him to be as driven as he is," Couldwell recounted the ex-staffer said.