About Josh Gumbert
Hi, I’m Josh Gumbert, founder of GainStage Solutions.
I help event-driven businesses replace operational chaos with systems that hold up under real pressure — busy weeks, changing timelines, moving parts, client expectations, labor coordination, and last-minute curveballs.
My background started in music, moved through live production and AV, and eventually became a career in operations, systems, sales, and event technology.
Built in Real Event Environments
I came up through music first.
I grew up playing in bands, served as a U.S. Army Musician, studied business at Purdue University Fort Wayne, and studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I’ve also spent years as a freelance audio engineer, supporting church services, weddings, corporate events, and live productions for audiences ranging from small rooms to thousands of people.
Music taught me execution under pressure: timing, listening, leadership, preparation, and knowing how to adjust when something goes wrong in real time.
That mindset still shapes how I work.
Music Led Me Into AV. AV Led Me Into Operations.
Once you become the person who can make the sound work, you often become the person who runs the rehearsal, builds the rig, solves the client problem, manages the room, and keeps the event moving.
Over the last fifteen-plus years, I’ve worked across audio engineering, live production, AV systems design, sales engineering, regional integration sales, church technical direction, and in-house event technology at the hotel and venue level.
Along the way, I earned credentials including AVIXA CTS, Dante Level III, Crestron Core, and Q-SYS Sales Professional.
But the most valuable experience came from real-world problems: vendors who disappear, rooms that fight you, schedules that change at the last minute, teams that need structure, and businesses that need systems strong enough to support growth.
Why GainStage Exists
Most growing businesses do not have a tools problem.
They have a system problem.
The booking lives in one place. The proposal lives somewhere else. The labor schedule is separate. Notes are scattered. Follow-up depends on memory. The owner becomes the integration layer holding everything together with urgency, experience, and adrenaline.
That works until it doesn’t.
GainStage Solutions exists to help fix the operating system underneath the work — so calendars make sense, handoffs are clean, teams know what to do, and owners can stop carrying the entire business in their head.
Why I’m Different
There are not many people who have stood on stage, run the board, designed the AV system, sold the solution, managed the client, and defended the business case afterward.
That full-stack view — performer, engineer, operator, salesperson, and business owner — is the lens I bring to every engagement.
If your business is growing faster than your systems, I can help you create the structure, workflows, and technology needed to support the next stage of growth.