SIOUX FALLS, S.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 20, 2024--
AVPro Global Holdings LLC, parent company of AVPro Edge, AudioControl Pro, Bullet Train, Murideo, and Thenaudio audio/video distribution products, today announced the appointment of Kevin (Jinghui) Wang as Vice President of the MXnet Systems Group, a newly formed specialty design and development business unit dedicated to expanding the AVPro Edge brand’s MXnet AV over IP product portfolio to address the growing need for AV over IP in market segments encompassing business & corporate, education, government, hospitality & retail, house of worship, medical, and high-end residential systems. The new division represents an evolution intended to better address the unique needs of these market verticals. Wang will report to Matt Murray, AVPro co-owner and CTO, and oversee MXnet development initiatives, including the integration of AI-driven network optimization and cybersecurity into the already popular MXnet AV over IP ecosystem.
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“Kevin is both a visionary and an accomplished implementer with the technical knowledge, marketing skills, and cross-functional leadership capability to accelerate our AV over IP expansion initiatives through the MXnet Systems Group,” said Jeff Murray, AVPro’s CEO and Founder. “We are delighted to promote Kevin to lead the MXnet Systems Group team and are certain he will be instrumental in growing our AV over IP commercial results worldwide,” Murray added.
About Kevin (Jinghui) Wang
A seasoned expert in professional audio/video, IT, and network technologies, Kevin Wang joined AVPro Global in 2020 as VP of Product Development, where he catapulted the MXnet ecosystem to a prominent AV over IP contender in the worldwide market. Previously, Wang was a product manager and a COO, and the co-founder of C2SEC, an AI-based cyber risk assessment SaaS platform. He has a bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University.
About AVPro Global Holdings LLC
AVPro Global is a privately held American company headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD, with satellite offices in St. Petersburg, FL, Seattle, WA, a European office in Bratislava, Slovakia, and an office in Shenzhen. The five AVPro Global audio/video-centric brands - AVPro Edge, AudioControl Pro, Bullet Train, Murideo, and Thenaudio – combine their respective strengths to create the fastest-growing AV signal distribution company in the residential and commercial systems integration spaces, perfectly complementing AVPro Global Founder and CEO Jeff Murray’s vision, “To be recognized as the best AV signal distribution and control products and services company on the planet.”
Kevin (Jinghui) Wang, VP, MXnet Systems Group (Photo: Business Wire)
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a final appeal to voters considering a path toward independence in his home province of Alberta on Friday, warning that a referendum is a dangerous gamble at a time of growing threats to Canada’s sovereignty.
With U.S. President Donald Trump waging a trade war and threatening to make Canada the 51st state, Carney warned that the referendum comes at the “worst possible time” and urged Albertans not to take the outcome for granted.
“Don’t let anyone tell you this is already decided. Turnout will determine the outcome,” Carney told a pro-Canada rally in Edmonton, where he grew up.
“This is not a game. This is not poker. A vote against Canada is a dangerous bluff that will lead to years of deep uncertainty and lost opportunities for Albertans and Canadians,” he said.
Monday’s vote is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, home to most of Canada’s proven oil reserves — the fourth largest in the world — will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation.
Carney’s closing appeal came after two days of campaigning against separation in the province. Earlier Friday, the Liberal prime minister joined Alberta’s conservative premier Danielle Smith in a show of unity against independence.
Smith praised Carney for improving relations with a province that frequently clashed with his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, over his carbon tax and other energy policies.
“I think what we can agree on is that we have had some real change in the last 18 months,” Smith said alongside Carney in Red Deer, Alberta.
Smith noted that Carney grew up in Alberta and remains an Edmonton Oilers fan.
“He can’t be all bad, right?” she joked.
“Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us. Never. Never,” Carney warned Friday in Edmonton, repeating a warning he made a day earlier in Calgary.
At Thursday’s Calgary rally, the crowd erupted in its loudest applause when Carney spoke about reducing Canada’s economic dependence on the United States.
Carney acknowledged Alberta’s longstanding resentment of federal energy policies.
“Growing up, I remember how Ottawa made Albertans feel like our resources weren’t our own,” he said.
But he also emphasized his deep ties to the province.
“Alberta is my home. I grew up here. This city, this province, this country have given me everything: my family, my education, my values,” he said.
Outside the Edmonton rally venue Friday, Alberta independence supporters waved flags and held a sign reading “Say no to Carney’s new world order.”
Smith called the referendum despite opposing independence herself. She recently cited a poll showing 22% of Albertans support separation, a figure she said was still too high.
Smith also faces pressure from separatists within her governing United Conservative Party. Former Premier Jason Kenney said the independence movement gained influence within the party as activists angry over COVID-19 restrictions, some influenced by conspiracy theories, embraced separatism.
But some Albertans who want to remain in Canada are angry with Smith for calling the vote.
“I think it’s a travesty really to be putting our province and our country through this when such a small portion of people are rabble rousing and saying they want to separate from Canada,” said Deb Lee, a retired Calgary resident who voted in advance to remain in Canada.
Smith said Carney had substantially addressed seven of nine federal laws Alberta opposed. She also cited cooperation on a proposed oil pipeline.
Independence advocate Tanya Clemens dismissed the agreements between Carney and Smith as “basically pinky promises” that came with too many conditions.
Carney’s chief political rival, federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, also urged Albertans Friday to remain in Canada.
“Don’t leave your fellow Canadians behind. Lock arms with them,” Poilievre said.
Despite their agreement on keeping Alberta in Canada, Carney and Smith remain divided over nine other questions on Monday’s ballot involving immigration and provincial powers. Smith wants voters to approve them, while Carney has urged their rejection.
“For the first time in a long time, Alberta and Canada are walking together,” Smith said.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney signs an autograph as he attends a national unity rally in Red Deer, Alberta, Friday Oct. 16, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a national unity rally in Red Deer, Alberta, alongside, from left, Monte Solberg, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and former Premier Ed Stelmach, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a national unity rally in Red Deer, on Friday Oct. 16, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a national unity rally in Red Deer, on Friday Oct. 16, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a national unity rally in Red Deer alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026.. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
