Name: Benjamin Delgrosso
Nickname: Cake Boss
With Certified Radio since: 2007
Title: Store Manager
Hobbies: Designing sub boxes, buying all types of cell phones, building his own cars sound systems, and playing soccer on an Edmonton team.
Accomplishments: Benjamin went to the United States and achieved 8th place at the DB Drag Race finals in Unlimited SPL (Sound Pressure Level). His vehicle hit 161.8 decibels with 2 subwoofers and 8 amplifiers.
Name: Lyle Makokis
Nickname: Mako
With Certified Radio since: 2009
Title: Assistant Manager
Hobbies: Skidooing, truck building, playing with his Son, mountain biking, and roller blading
Accomplishments: Lyle has been in management at other retail car audio stores and brings his expertise to Certified West to help our team succeed.
Name: Darryl Dahl
Nickname: Dr. D
With Certified Radio since: 1997
Title: Sales and Marketing Manager
Hobbies: Hunting, fishing, playing drums, skiing, drifting, and guiding hunts for APOS (Alberta Professional Outfitter Society)
Accomplishments: Darryl has been in the car audio scene competing for over 17 years in IASCA (the International Auto Sound Challenge Association) and has been on the Certified team for 14 years. He has received 4 invites to the IASCA World Finals in Car audio competition the U.S. He is the designer of the Certified Radio Sound Team and has led them to over 350 trophies over the years. His unique personality adds an undeniable element of fun to anything he organizes. He was first trained as a car starter specialist. Since then he has perfected designing car audio systems. At the stores you’ll find him organizing our advertizing and training sales staff, planning our events, controlling our social media. He also does Pro Drift Car Marketing and is a member of Shawn Hawley’s pit crew team. Darryl is an IASCA Certified judge for sound quality and installation and he also is a Certified Ski instructor.
Name: Marc Hambrook
With Certified Radio since: 1999
Title: Installation Shop Foreman
Hobbies: Playing Drums, Pro Music sound engineering
Accomplishments: Marc is a Certified MECP installer and does Professional sound mixing for many local bands.
Name: Anders MacPherson
Nickname: Dkoi
With Certified Radio since: 2007
Title: Car Starter Specialist and System Designer
Hobbies: Professional DJ, snowboarding, and music production
Accomplishments: Was a DJ at Boonstock music festival two times and appears at various night clubs in Edmonton. Anders is also a Registered EMR (Emergency Medical Response)
Name: Shawn Hawley
Nickname: Shawley
With Certified Radio since: 2007
Title: Car Audio System Desiner/Car Starter Specialist
Hobbies: Shawn is a Pro DMCC Drift mania Drift car Driver and his car is sponsored by Clarion of Canada and Certified Radio.
Accomplishments: Got rookie of the year at DMCC in 2009 and was part of the Edmonton Indy Drift demonstration for the last two years in front of thousands of people. In 2011 Shawn achieved 5th place in Western Canada DMCC Drift circuit. Shawn also enjoys going to the lake and boating and working on his car and snowboarding.
Name: Kaleigh
Nickname: Kay
With Certified Radio since: 2011
Title: Receptionist
Hobbies: Plays Soccer, likes to travel, loves the outdoors.
Accomplishments: Has danced for many years and has danced all over North America and Europe.
Name: Clarence Leung
With Certified Radio since: 2002
Title: Car audio and car starter specialist - Part Time
Hobbies: Clarence enjoys Muay Thai kick boxing and being a DJ. Also enjoys Motorcycling and Neuroscience. Holds 2 volunteer jobs, 1 at the U of A hospital and 1 with students Union.
Accomplishments: Volunteer of the year at U of A student’s union program, Advanced open water scuba certification, Coaches amateur adult Muay Thai and judges beginner tournaments also.
Name: Ryan Storr
Nickname: Superstorr
With Certified Radio since: 2005
Title: Car audio and car starter specialist - Part Time
Hobbies: All sports and especially Hockey. Movies and music.
Accomplishments: Skydiving, Volunteers as Adult Literacy tutor at Edmonton John Howard society. Ryan has 4 scholarships in school. Ryan has been appointed a member of the Golden Key international honor society for his outstanding marks at school achieving top 15% in his class!
Name: Gary Hartford
With Certified Radio since: 2007
Title: Car audio and car starter specialist
Hobbies: Gary is a Professional Golfer and teaches at Riverside golf course all summer and in the fall and winter works here with us. He is also into building cars and has 2 cool rides. Snowboarding and skateboarding he also finds fun
Accomplishments: Achieved 3 rd place in Alberta PGA Championship in 2011.
Gary has first aid training, and he helps organize and run the Alberta handicapped Jr golf program.
