The flagship VAAV-direct case study. Owner’s-rep enterprise AV architecture across NYC, Florida, and Connecticut for one of the world’s most prominent activist hedge funds — reporting directly to the Director of Infrastructure.
Elliott Management is one of the most prominent activist hedge funds in the world. The infrastructure team there hires independent enterprise AV architects who operate as part of the firm — not as a billable line item routed through a national integrator’s account-management layer. That seat reports to the Director of Infrastructure and owns the full lifecycle: design, vendor selection, install, commissioning, and ongoing support.
That seat is Vincent.
This is the engagement category Cliff Alberti, EVP at TriTech Communications, defined as contract CTO: the technology architecture, platform decision, and invention seat. Elliott is what that seat looks like when the client is a Tier-1 hedge fund and the work spans three states.
The engagement covers NYC HQ install and commissioning directly, plus multi-state owner’s-rep oversight across the Florida and Connecticut sites. VAAV operates as the client-side architect of record. Vendors deliver. VAAV holds the design, the spec, and the accountability.
Three integrators delivering. One named human accountable for the architecture. That’s the seat.
Most enterprise AV at this scale gets delivered by a national integrator with a named account team. The integrator owns the architecture and the install and the support contract. The client gets one throat to choke. Per the 2026 NY tristate competitive census, this is the dominant model across the field — AVI-SPL, Diversified, Cenero, Pavion, FORTÉ, Yorktel all operate this way.
The Elliott seat inverts that. VAAV holds the architecture and design. Multiple integrators bid and deliver against that spec. The client owns the relationship with the architect; the integrators serve the architect’s plan.
This is the model the largest banks have always used for their physical infrastructure (architects of record, then GCs). It’s rare in enterprise AV. It’s where VAAV operates.
VAAV-direct project lead · reports to Director of Infrastructure · no staffing intermediary · ongoing 2020 — Present
NYC HQ (install + commissioning) · Florida site (managed) · Connecticut site (managed)
AVI-SPL (FL delivery) · Diversified (CT delivery) · MGE Unified Technologies (multi-site) · VAAV as owner’s rep
Enterprise AV design · integrator selection · commissioning · ongoing technical authority
Elliott is one of 15 Tier-1 financial institutions VAAV has touched across the 31-year arc — alongside Millennium, JPMC, Lazard, Blackstone, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, BNY Mellon, Citadel, Fortress, MUFG, Aristeia, and Metropolitan Commercial Bank.
The full Tier-1 finance roster — with engagement vehicle for each — is on the credits page. For VAAV-direct enterprise architecture inquiries: book a call.