Music Producer, Composer & Supervisor /
Entertainment Lawyer & Educator

Jeff is a music  composer, producer and supervisor with credits on numerous critically-acclaimed recordings including projects delivered to Warner, Universal, CBC, CTV, NBC, Global and the Knowledge Network. He is affiliated with a prominent US music supervisor with Oscar and Grammy award-winning credits.  Jeff has been a guest panelist at Music West – in 2001 as a speaker on the topic of "Your Band is Your Business", and a few years earlier as the moderator for the topic, "Music for Film and Television". In 2002, Jeff had an opportunity to work with the New York based Grammy nominated R&B recording group, City High. Jeff was a juror for the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2004.

Jeff was also the music mix engineer for two of Vivendi Universal & Radical Entertainment's most prestigious video games: Dark Angel, The Hulk and The Simpson's Hit and Run, considered by many critics to be "the best Simpsons Game ever".

As a post-secondary educator, Jeff currently teaches Film Law and New Media Law in the School of Business / New Media Department at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is the Head of the Entertainment Business Management Diploma Program at the Vancouver Film School. Guests of Jeff's classes have included executives from multi-national record companies, Nirvana's producer, Jack Endino, and legendary Canadian songwriter, Jim Vallance and his students of have landed exciting positions with organizations such as SOCAN, Canada's Musical Performing Rights Collective, Orca Bay Sports & Entertainment (the Vancouver Canucks), Nettwerk Records, and Warner Music (Canada).  Jeff was also formerly  the head instructor of the Public Speaking program at the UBC Faculty of Commerce and taught and wrote adjunct curriculum for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. 

Jeff received his Bachelor of Law degree from the University of British Columbia, where he also studied Commerce, before beginning his 18-year legal career which started in corporate and real estate law, and ultimately focused on intellectual property and entertainment, particularly in film/TV and music. During his successful legal career, Jeff has negotiated with major labels and corporations including Qwest Records (Quincy Jones), Virgin Records, BMG, Disney, Sony and Warner/Chappell. He has acted for and advised a Grammy winning artist, and was a managing partner of an entertainment law boutique that represented international, local major, and independent film and TV clients. Companies that have received his legal work include Fox Family Channel and Shavick Entertainment. 

Jeff has acted as lead counsel on one of the largest business immigration cases in Canada. and has also been the Vice-President of  a medium-sized Vancouver-based media company as its executive business development advisor.

Jeff is based in Vancouver, Canada and is married with one daughter. His hobbies are snowboarding, attending concerts with the Vancouver Symphony and attending hockey games.