What Happened?
Valhalla, NY-based Turtle Beach has Appointed Richard Kulavik as a Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
"Turtle Beach is a designs, manufactures and markets high quality, competitively-priced audio peripherals for video game consoles and personal computers. Turtle Beach was founded in 1985 as "Turtle Beach Softworks" by co-founders Roy Smith and Robert Hoke. The company's first product was a graphical editing system that supported the breakthrough Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard. The Mirage was the first low cost sampling device that allowed musicians to play realistic choirs, pianos, horns, and other instruments in their performances. The software, called "Vision", connected the Mirage to a PC and used the PC's screen and graphics to make the programming and editing of sounds much easier. Ensoniq decided to resell Vision through their dealer network and Turtle Beach Softworks became a profitable company. Over the following years, the company developed a few other programs that supported Ensoniq equipment but realized that they needed to develop more generalized products. Turtle Beach designs and markets premium audio peripherals for video game, personal computer, and mobile platforms, including its acclaimed line of Ear Force gaming headphones and headsets crafted for Xbox 360 and PS3 game consoles and PC games."
About the Person
Richard Kulavik is serving as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), where he defines Turtle Beach’s technical vision as the company continues through a period of explosive growth. On a day-to-day basis, Kulavik will be leveraging Turtle Beach’s innovative technology to advance new product concepts, as well as drive into expanding markets for the game audio industry. Prior to joining Turtle Beach, Kulavik spent more than 15 years working with top-tier suppliers in the consumer audio industry and most recently was with Sony Computer Entertainment America where he led the peripheral products for PlayStation. He was previously Director of Marketing and Applications Engineering at AKM Semiconductor, providing audio and navigation technology to a number of gaming companies.
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