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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.
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