· Design, develop, and deliver cost-effective, high-performance innovative solutions to meet challenging business demands for well-organized international corporations, including Lionsgate Entertainment, EMI Music Publishing, Sony Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records, Universal/NBC, Strang Communications, Nutech Solutions, The Inspirational Network, Virgin Records, and Virgin Music Publishing· Introduce out-of-the-box thinking and problem-solving analysis to improve current business processes and methodologies to exceed business goals and to perpetually delight shareholders and customers· Identify and capitalize upon new market opportunities to introduce new products/services, reposition existing ones and drive revenue/earnings growth in highly competitive markets· Utilize new technologies to enhance current revenue streams, create non-traditional revenue streams and help cost-effectively solve outdated publishing, record, film, and television business model processe· Turn around under-performing operations and start-up opportunities through team leadership, building key alliances, and implementation of quality-control management systems· Design and deliver innovative, bottom-line change management programs that have generated million of dollars in new revenues/cost-saving through the redesign/restructuring of internal operation production and business processes-consistent with short/long-term organizational objectives

• Begin publishing through a joint venture with MCA Records (now Universal Music Group) • Later sold Famous Music Publishing to Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom

• Discover and sign Chris Stokes, his production company, and Immature • Make history by lending his A&R talents to IMX, After 7 as well as Janet Jackson’s first self-titled album on the label, which sold 28 million copies and became Virgin’s first 100-million-dollar project in less than six (6) months • Use intraprenurship to discover producer Tricky Stewart and help develop Brandy and her brother Ray J as well as Little Tyrone (aka Ty Dolla Sign)

• First African American executive to be hired in a creative capacity (as a music publisher) at EMI Music Publishing• Become an “intrapeneur”, a term that had not yet become common at the time• Sign writers including Chante Moore, Dallas Austin (Boys II Men, TLC, producer of the movie “Drumline”) and Jermaine Dupri (Kris Kross, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige)• Work with writers such as Luther Vandross, Heavy D, Eric B. & Rakim, and Charlie Wilson• Found The Young Power Brokers, an executive mentorship program that produced dynamic, critically-acclaimed executives including Big Jon Platt (Chairman/CEO of Sony Music Publishing), LaRonda Sutton (Senior VP, Universal), and Tina Davis (President of Empire Distribution, Recordings and Publishing). • Help to move EMI from a 3rd market position in R&B/Rap music to #1 in six (6) months, generating millions of dollars in revenue

• First-ever independent record/production company in San Diego, California to sign with a major label – MCA Records (now Universal Music Group) – in 1988• Help organize a grassroots 28-city Greyhound Bus tour and manage the Vicious Beat Posse (i.e. DBX, MC Deb-B, Marvee V, Superslim & DJ Candy Man)• Hold a private party for Klymax’s album, “Maxx is back”, on MCA Records in 1989• Help sign Vicious Beat Recording to a major distribution deal with MCA records in 1988, and Tardy Music to Paramount Pictures's Famous Music Publishing in 1989 • Release the Vicious Beat Posse’s album, “Legalized Dope”, on MCA Records in 1989

• Create the first independent music publishing company in San Diego, California with Delton Dormer and Robert Bural Harris, Jr., which signed with Famous Music Publishing (then-owned by Paramount Pictures)• Release the record label’s first record, “On a Mission”, by rap duo Ace-Fly Duce/Fresh• Sign Chante Moore to SunTown Records, Inc / Tardy Music in 1986, then to Warner Bros Records in 1988, helping to discover, develop, and create her artistic direction • Production team, Tony Silva and Robert Harris, write and produce Howard Huntsberry’s MCA Records, “Sleepless Weekend” and “Married Men Get Lonely Too” as well as Howard Johnson’s A&M Records, “Don’t Take This Out of Me”, “Shot Gun”, “Jocking Me” and “Lock Stock & Bond” in 1988