Len Wallis
Managing Director
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Len was born in Queensland, and grew up in country NSW.

He gained his secondary education at a Sydney boarding school, and has lived in the city ever since (although Len is a keen participant in the Variety Club Bash – revelling in the chance to drive in outback Australia).

Len began his career in Hi-Fi working for the now defunct MS Sound in St Peters in 1970. He then worked for, also now defunct, (do we see a pattern emerging here?) Allied Hi-Fi in Crows Nest, prior to opening Len Wallis Audio in 1978.

Len has always had a love of music; even as a kid he would carry a transistor radio wherever he went. While over the years musical tastes may have changed somewhat (currently listening to jazz and classical), this love of music has worked to form the basis of our business philosophy – our appreciation of the products that we sell and support stems from their ability to accurately reproduce the music we are playing at the time, rather than an appreciation of electronics for the sake of electronics.

Trevor Rooney
Company Manager
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Trevor was born in Dublin, Ireland.
During his teenage years he developed an interest in music and played bass guitar in a number of local bands.
A family business provided the door to short career in the home improvement sector but having the travel bug since he was a small child the lure of overseas travel became too much to ignore and Trevor ventured to the United States in 1987 to seek his fortune !!. This became an on and off occurrence for a number of years.

Returning to Dublin permanently in early 1993 he began working as manager of one of Europe’s top Hifi retailer, Richer Sounds.
This provided a solid training ground in customer service and is something that he still refers to nowadays.
The lure of travel once again came back and in 1994 Trevor decided to visit Australia for a short time before returning to America.
This was to prove a turning point as within a couple of months he met his wife.
Joining the Len Wallis Audio in April 1995 in a sales role he went onto become Company Manager in 1997.

Interests include Touch Football,Snow Boarding, the TV show LOST , Movies and writing.
Currently writing for Audio & Video Lifestyle Magazine reviewing the latest DVD releases.
As a keen writer he hopes to have his first novel published within the next few years.

Celebrated ten years with the company in April 2005


Employee of the year 2004
Employee of the year 2005

Rob McCaffery
Custom Divison Manager
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After finishing school, Rob started work with a major telecommunications company as a Technician and followed on this line of work for a private company in a senior position overseeing major cabling works managing both staff and contractors. Rob then decided to venture into his own business for a couple of years before accepting a position at Len Wallis Audio as a custom installer achieving ‘installer of the year’ two years running. He also won the Rotary Pride of Workmanship award in 2005.

Rob’s hobbies include Golf (only when playing well), Cars, Fishing, Boats and just getting out of the hustle and bustle of Sydney to enjoy the countryside.

Wim de Hertogh
Service Manager
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Born and raised in Sydney, Wim started his career as an electrician in the 70’s.

After travelling overseas as most young men do, he undertook an electronics course. In 1982 he became a technician, and progressed into sales. Wim joined the team at Len Wallis Audio in a sales role in 1989.
As of February 2007 Wim has moved to co ordinating the service section of the company.

Interests: Tennis, Motorbikes and World Of Warcraft

Tony Breen
Custom Sales
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Tony was born in England. However he has spent a couple of years in Africa running a Safari lodge.

Tony has always been passionate about music and therefore started out in this industry in 1979. Joining the team at Len Wallis Audio some 12 years ago. He spent time working with the sales team, before enhancing his skills in the custom audio department. He now is part of the sales/design section of the Custom division.

Interests: Travel, Mountain climbing and Hiking

Peter Greentree
Custom Sales
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Alberto Vangi
Custom Sales
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Born and raised in Sydney. Alberto finished study in metallurgy at UNSW in 1998.

Having always had an interest in audio/visual, Alberto decided that this was the career path that he wanted to take, and joined the sales team at Len Wallis Audio in 1999.

Juan Leon
Custom Sales
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Juan was born in Santiago, Chile. In his youthful days, he quenched his love for music, being a key member of his band, he wrote many songs, played guitar and performed vocals.

Although Juan enjoyed performing, the time had come to get serious. After a short period (one year) studying pharmacy, he ventured into the world of topography. Four years and many entertaining topographic drawings later, he accepted an attractive job offer and moved into Sales.

In one year, he became the youngest Sales Manager in the countries largest chain of retail stores “Audicol” at the San Diego branch.

In Australia, Juan continues his career on what he knows best. He worked at another A/V store in Sydney. Until in 1995, Juan became a proud member of the Len Wallis Audio team. After 8 years with Len selling our great products on the sales floor here in Lane Cove, he became part of our Custom Division, his duties being: sales, system design and project management.

Interests: Music (still enjoy playing guitar and singing…. as long the wife and friends permit), books, jogging, and lately bushwalking.

Chris Ceci
Project Manager
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Born in New York City, raised in Texas, Christopher came to Sydney in August 2006 and joined Len Wallis Audio as a senior installer in September 2006. He started off in the A/V business in 1992 working for a top high-end retailer in New York City. He then took a video editing position for 4 years before going back to the retail A/V business as an installer/project manager for a custom A/V company in New York City. In 2000 he took 3 years off and moved to Madrid where he taught English and enjoyed the Spanish lifestyle. Moving back to New York City in 2003 he resumed his previous position as installer/project manager until he moved to Australia. He has been a project manager with Len Wallis Audio since March 2007.

Interests: Food and wine, travel, music.

Michael Dreyer
Project Manager
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Michael has been a Sydneysider since birth. He started with Len Wallis Audio in the Storeroom and went on to join the installation team as a junior installer, then senior installer, before being promoted to Project Manager.
His hobby interests are Music, Movies and Sport.

Finlay Curror
Project Manager
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Fin was born in London, England. After leaving school, he travelled and worked extensively across the UK and the USA in various industries. Upon his return he joined the Royal Marines where he spent 2 years as an Infantryman and 2 years specialising in Digital Communications. Next Fin began working for a Systems Integration Company in London. He managed the Security Department and worked on developing Security Integration throughout the modern Automated Home, looking after celebrity clients such as Mick Jagger, Jude Law and Alan Rickman. He now lives in Sydney with his fiancée and has been working for Len Wallis Audio since January 2008.

Paul Ponticello
Project Manager
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Paul joined Len Wallis Audio as an installer and worked for several years before going overseas for a year. He has returned to take up a Project Management role.

Dee Bubeck
Market Development
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Born in Germany and raised in the UK, Dee spent most of his youth and twenties trying to become a full-time musician. Real life got in the way and after a couple of sales and marketing positions outside of the industry, he began working for one of the UK's leading Systems Integration companies. During his 6 years there he undertook a number of roles including Sales, Project Management and finally Development Manager where his focus was on high end multi-dwelling developments. He also set up and maintained the company's ISO accreditation.

Dee moved to Australia in 2008 and joined Len Wallis Audio where his focus remains on the growing market of Home Automation within multi-dwelling developments. His passions include music, movies, reading, F1 and spending time with his fiancée and son.

Trevor Livingstone
IT Coordinator & Programmer
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Trevor was born in the Midlands, England. After obtaining a degree in Computer Science and a Diploma in Professional Studies from Loughborough University, he worked as a Software Developer and Application Consultant.
Aside from his interest in professional software development, Trevor has a great sense of adventure and loves travelling and snowboarding. His favorite (and more accessible) hobby is drumming. Of course, an interest in 2 channel audio led him to the door of Len Wallis Audio, so now two passions are met in one job; working with computers, plus a link to music and entertainment.

Geoff Forgie
Publishing & Marketing
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Geoff came to the Hi-Fi business as a result of an interest in classical music, but these days is into jazz as well. He works on the LWA website, writes the HiFi Headlines newsletters, and still does some sales. He also runs his own website from home: http://www.homeentertainment.com.au
Born and raised in the dusty far west of NSW (Nyngan) until High School (Hurlstone at Glenfield), then 27 years in Canberra, firstly in the Defence Department, and later in his own shop. He has been married to Barbara since 1972 and they have three children.
Geoff still has a love of music and has quite a few CDs and a collection of LPs. Hobby interests: "retro" stereo, radios and landscape photography.

Craig Leydon
Chief Installer
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After completing the HSC in 1995, Craig became an electrician. He then later joined the custom team at Len Wallis Audio in 1999 as an installer, and has now achieved the ranks of Chief Custom Installer. He was voted “Installer of the Year” and “Employee of the Year” in 2006. His interests are in music production.

Charl Du Plessis
Sales
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Born in France, grew up in South Africa and moved to Australia in 1996.

Charl originally studied human resources. However he worked in the HiFi industry part time in 1984 for a wholesale company. Charl began working with the sales team for Len Wallis Audio when he moved to Australia.

Interests: Rugby Union, Opera, Cycling and Golf.

Kiet Lequang
Sales
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Originally from Vietnam, Kiet moved to Australia in 1978.

He joined the sales team in 1996. He has always loved music and was actually looking to buy a quality Hi Fi system from Len Wallis Audio, Kiet saw a sales position available and decided to apply for the job.
Interests: Music, Travel

Dennis Nel
Sales
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Dennis was born in country NSW and grew up in Brisbane.

He then immigrated to South Africa in 1969. Dennis worked for 6 years in steel manufacturing. He moved into the hospitality industry for 7 years, then joined sales and marketing in the financial planning industry. He returned to Australia in 1985, and through the love of music, knowledge of Hi-Fi as a hobby and past sales experience, after a short stint with one of Sydney’s top audio stores he joined the sales team at Len Wallis Audio in 1990.

Dennis has a great depth of knowledge in two-channel stereo, turntables, speaker placement and room acoustics.

Interests: Long distance running (He has run the 100km Komrads marathon in South Africa), squash, cycling, audio equipment and music.

Rob Handley
Sales
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Born and raised in Sydney, Rob started his career as an electrical apprentice. In 1982 Rob joined the Navy and served his country proudly for eight years. Pursuing a change in lifestyle and career paths he joined Len Wallis Audio in May 1994 as a custom installer and then salesman.

Interests: Golf, Motor Racing, Fishing.

Employee Of The Year 2001

Tim Wallis
Sales
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Working his way up through our installation department was always the best way for Tim to gain the knowledge that is required here on a day to day basis.
Interests include two channel audio, vinyl and motor racing. Currently looking for sponsorship for the 2007/08 season.

Rory MacLeod
Sales
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Rory's background is varied City & Country, having been born in Sydney but living in Queensland and the Northern Territory during his school years.
He has also had quite a wide experience within the company, having started in Stores, then going into Custom Installation work before joining the Sales team. He enjoys the fast pace and variety of cases that Sales staff have to be across in any day.
He is also a consumer of music (all styles) and enjoys home theatre, thereby fitting the pattern we see in this industry quite a lot, which is that of user turned dealer.

Brendan O'Banion
Sales
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Brendan joined the company as Storeman, and has made the transition to Sales rather than to Installation. He has a keen interest in music and recording - has a studio set up at home - and is learning to play a very nice Fender guitar.