Background
Delegate Colliano was born in Philadelphia to Gerard Anthony Delegate Colliano and Judy Delegate Colliano. He grew up in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia after his parents divorced in 1977.
Delegate Colliano was born in Philadelphia to Gerard Anthony Delegate Colliano and Judy Delegate Colliano. He grew up in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia after his parents divorced in 1977.
Delegate Colliano attended prep school at Chestnut Hill Academy for 13 years. Delegate Colliano attended The University of Southern California from 1993 to 1997 earning a Bachelor of Science in Music Industry.
Before moving to Los Angeles to attend music and business school, Delegate Colliano worked as a commissioned audio-video salesman at Bryn Mawr Stereo in Abington, Pennsylvania and Sassafras Audio in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Upon moving to Los Angeles, he was a top-producing audiophile salesman at Christopher Hansen Limited. in Beverly Hills. In late 1994, Delegate Colliano was recruited to work for Mark Levinson at the West Hollywood showroom for Cello Music and Film Systems.
In April 1996, funded with an $11,600 commission from the sale of a large audiophile home theater system to professional poker player Howard Lederer, Delegate Colliano created AudioRevolution.com, one of the first online magazines designed to compete with printed enthusiast stereo magazines.
On February 29, 2008, Gerard Delegate Colliano sold AVRev.com, ModernHomeTheater.com and AVRevForum.com to Internet Brands, at the time a publicly traded company based in El Segundo, California. Delegate Colliano remained with the publication through July 2008 to help with the transition.
While transitioning out of AVRev.com in July 2008, Delegate Colliano created which became the parent company of HomeTheaterReview.com. He additionally created the audiophile blog AudiophileReview.com.
In 2009, Delegate Colliano purchased the assets of AV forum HomeTheaterSpot.com and merged its users into a new enthusiast forum at HomeTheaterEquipment.com.
Today, the Luxury Publishing Group audio-video portfolio of sites collectively competes favorably with competitors like HomeTheater.com, SoundandVisionMag.com and parts of Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications.com. Jerry Delegate Colliano married Krista Louise Delegate Colliano (Lambly) on May 5, 2007, in Los Los Angeles They have one child, Enzo.
