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Joey Avino
Joey Avino (born July 10, 1984) is an Italian-American new-media entrepreneur. He is the founder of the web development and strategic interactive new-media agency Amedia Creative, Inc., which builds Internet, viral and social media campaigns around websites and web applications that are highly scalable and feature rich.

Biography
A native New Yorker, from 1998-2002 Avino attended and earned his high school diploma from Don Bosco Preparatory School in Ramsey, New Jersey. In 2006 he graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University with a degree in graphic design and advertising art.

Business career
Avino founded Amedia Creative in 2006. In 2009 Amedia was hired by Cisco Systems to build educational portals for the company in Saudi Arabia, which allowed students to log in and submit ideas to Cisco to win prizes through the company's "Most Competitive Youth" program. In 2010, Amedia was hired by Gabriels Technology Solution (GTS) in New York, New York, to build web site functionality for worldwide real estate, automotive and employment websites. Avino has said that in 2011, after building a solid East coast client base, he relocated Amedia Creative to Las Vegas, Nevada, because it was "time to make a solid move to expand in a more modern work environment." . Described as executing his business and personal activities with a "calculated objective," Amedia Creative's move to Las Vegas's tax-free and international environment has contributed to the company's success: From 2011-2012 Amedia Creative's profits increased by 25 percent, and hired 40 percent more staff to accommodate a growing client list including continued work with national companies like Cisco, HGTV and National Geographic, as well as local Las Vegas companies like Exotics Racing, and others.

Interior design background
In recent years Avino's proclivity toward interior design has been publicized by Las Vegas media--specifically, for the design acumen and sweat equity he put into his condo at the The Martin, a luxury high-rise located near CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip. Avino's style has been described as "retro-theatrical," and features pops of the rustic, the colorful, and the unexpected as an homage to his favorite designers Kelly Wearstler and Phillippe Starck. Avino's condo balances beauty and technology: he controls all lighting and sound from his iPhone or iPad, and the condo's heating and cooling system adjusts by itself thanks to Avino's Nest thermostat, which has learned Avino's schedule and turns on and off automatically. “I don’t do anything unless it is 100 percent,” he's said.

Personal life
Described as a "computer geek" whose could cause female attendance in computer science classes to "skyrocket", in 2011 Avino was named by Bombay Sapphire and SPYON Vegas one of Las Vegas's "Best Men" in the 2011 category "Best Man-Capitalist." In 2012 he was named among the "2012 Most Beautiful People in Vegas," and in the February 2012 issue of Vegas Rated magazine he was featured as "The Capitalist" again for being "career focused" and "impeccably dressed."

Avino founded Joey Avino Male Modeling, a team of professional online video gamers that competed in online gaming leagues such as Cyberathlete Amateur League and Cyberevolution(CEVO). The team competed at Counter-Strike and went undefeated in its final online season of the Cyber-Athlete Amateur League.

When asked of his perception of what is beautiful, he has answered "cars, art, spaces, food, technology, a life."