Crestron's Feldstein, Monster's Lee Among Eight 2015 Inductees to CE Hall of Fame

CEA announced eight inductees into the 2015 CE Hall of Fame Wednesday: Robert Borchardt, CEO, Recoton, credited with elevating accessories to a profit center for retailers; Tom Campbell, CE retail executive and consultant, who helped retailers launch new technologies and products; Crestron founder George Feldstein, an early pioneer of the connected home market; Vic Hayes, "the Father of Wi-Fi," and founding chairman of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group for Wireless LANs; Monster founder Noel Lee, who established the high-end audio and video interconnection market and introduced the Beats headphone line; Bernie Mitchell, president, Pioneer America, who took the company from a $2 million seven-product firm to a $238 million company with 125 products; psychoacoustics engineer Floyd Toole, who changed the methodology used by generations of speaker manufacturers to test and measure high-quality sound; and Wilfred Schwartz, founder of the Federated Group, which grew from a single CE retail store in California to a 90-location chain in four states.