Gabriel McDowell, president & founder of 808 Media and 808 Music. Marketing, public relations and promotions for cutting edge products, movements and people; music performance, music & video production, writing and publishing. Mr. McDowell is an experienced and accomplished media professional, musician, DJ, producer and promoter. Mr. McDowell's experience has taken him from the corporate boardrooms of Silicon Valley, to the cold streets and hot music venues of the San Francisco Bay Area, to the glorious fields and mountains of Mendocino County. With a degree in Journalism from Humboldt State University, decades in the media industry, and a lifetime as a dedicated drummer, and music sojourner, Mr. McDowell has applied his dual love of media and music to great effect, having worked as senior account executive at top Silicon Valley boutique PR firm, JDS Group, and establishing his own firm, 808 Media, in 2001, and on to a full time career as a drummer, producer and DJ in the Bay Area. His group, The 808 Band (Winner, Bohemian Music Award 'Best Hip-Hop Group, 2011), has been performing steadily throughout the West Coast for upwards of 2 decades, keeping a steady schedule of regional gigs for the 808 Band, Big G the Drummer & DJ, and Mr. McDowell (aka ‘Big G’) being resident DJ for ‘Baby Loves Disco,’ America’s number one family dance party!”
Listed skills include Sound, Music, Entertainment, Composition, and 45 others.