ABOUT US

Founder/Executive Producer: Michael Gliksman

Conservatory trained opera singer, and American Film Institute Producing Fellow, Mr. Gliksman is celebrating 40 years as an Entertainment Industry professional. In the first ten years of his career, he sang, acted, wrote, produced, and/or directed dozens of stage, film, radio, and television projects. This portion of Michael's life culminated with his performance in the World Premiere of Tennessee Williams' "The Red Devil Battery Sign" with Mr. Williams supervising.

As a son of two concentration camp survivors from Poland, with the mentoring of famed Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, Michael focused his energies toward creating media projects to teach children lessons of the Holocaust. He established a new school of Human Rights Media Education appropriate for younger children. His film, "Hope Out of the Ashes", starring Liv Ullmann, has been studied by millions in the United States and China.

Mr. Gliksman has spent most of his Entertainment career as an executive and Executive Producer specializing in Development. He was one of three Executive Producers, the others being Dennis Dreith and Shari Hoffman, that helped to establish the Environment of People Foundation-an Entertainment Industry based organization established to raise monies for children’s charities including UNICEF Japan and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation. He wrote fundraising material and was considered for Director of Development and continued to present Human Rights oriented projects to the Speilberg Shoah Foundation. Was counseled by Associate Dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. The center also collaborated on the Teacher’s Guide for Gliksman’s film, “Hope Out of the Ashes”. He developed numerous projects presented to Turner Broadcasting President, Roger Mayer.

Michael is an Artist/Producer of the Taylor and Martin Guitar Companies. As a performing artist and musician Michael has appeared throughout Europe and in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Nashville at such legendary venues as The Top of the Mark, The Troubadour, The Bluebird Cafe, and Douglas Corner.

Mr. Gliksman is a sought-after expert and consultant in the professional and consumer audio/visual industries and a member of the National Academy of Recording Artists (Grammy); the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association (CEDIA); and the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Gliksman is currently developing Luckyman Records as a financially unprecedented vehicle for the Music Industry to channel monies to any charity wishing to participate.

CFO: Joseph Paternoster

Mr. Paternoster has substantial experience in business, investments, tax planning, and in building companies. Mr. Paternoster was a leader of the team that acquired controlling interest in DriWater, Inc. in November 1995. During that time the company has grown its technology and sales around the world. Mr. Paternoster has two issued patents, with three pending, involving water conservation technologies. Mr. Paternoster has spent much time in the Middle East and North Africa perfecting water technologies for arid regions.

He has owned Paternoster & Associates since 1983, a firm that advises businesses and individuals in tax, investments and financial planning. He owns a trademark for a line of clothing distributed to retailers such as Longs Drugs, Pier 39 and many wineries across the United States. Mr. Paternoster was the owner of Wolfard Co., one of the top 100 art galleries in the United States.

Mr. Paternoster studied Finance at Butte College in Chico, California, is a registered Principle holding a Series 24 and Series 7 Securities License.

Pianist/Production Consultant: Lincoln Mayorga:

LINCOLN MAYORGA went on after his initial success with the Four Preps to establish himself as a world renowned Classical Concert Artist performing in over 250 cities across America, throughout Europe and in Russia as guest Soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic in a Tribute to Gershwin as well as at prestigious venues from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl – Lincoln Center to The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Often cited as one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood, he was staff pianist at Disney Studios for 20 years and contributed to the soundtrack of such film classics as “Chinatown”, “The Rose”, “The Competition”, “Pete’s Dragon”, “Ragtime”, “The Way We Were”, and “Funny Lady” as well as TV classics like “Bonanza”, “Dallas”, “Fame” “Little House on the Prairie” “Highway to Heaven” and “Touched by an Angel”.
His legendary pianistic versatility runs the stylistic gamut from 18th century pieces to Ragtime, Pop to Jazz and even includes Rock as attested to by the fact that he was Co-Creator, Arranger, Conductor and Producer of “The Piltdown Men” a Capitol Records rock fusion band of the 60s that has sold millions of records and become an on-going cult favorite around the world.

On the Pop side, he was Co-Producer, Arranger and Conductor of Ketty Lester’s classic million selling recording of “Love Letters” and a recording studio stalwart as Pianist, Arranger and Conductor for artists like Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme’, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Vicki Carr, Frank Zappa, Margaret Whiting, Ringo Starr, Phil Ochs and Quincy Jones.

He’s recorded a highly regarded series of Ragtime albums under the name Al “Spider” Dugan and his celebrated classical career encompasses concert collaborations with revered musical luminaries like Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tilson Thomas, Josef Suk, Arnold Steinhardt, Gerard Schwartz and numerous distinguished American Orchestras.
He was recently featured guest on National Public Radio’s “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland and re-joined Bruce and The Four Preps on the recent Award-winning PBS Special “Magic Moments.”

Music Industry Consultant: Dennis Dreith

Dennis Dreith has worked as a musician in the film music industry and eventually worked with the Recording Musicians' Association (RMA), becoming its president, a post he held for over 15 years.

Dreith has been the composer for such films as Purple People Eater (1988), The Punisher (1989), and Gag (2005) and his work can be heard in the soundtracks of Jurassic Park, Misery, Braveheart, Addams Family, Sleepless in Seattle, Heart and Souls, A League of Their Own and others.  He has orchestrated and/or conducted scores for such pictures as Misery, Addams Family, Heart and Souls and A League of Their Own, providing services for John Williams, Lalo Schifrin, Dominick Frontiere, Marc Shaiman, Hans Zimmer, Eliot Goldenthal, Mark Isham and Cliff Eidelman.

In addition, Dennis has served as Music Supervisor on several major motion pictures as well as Music Consultant on the legendary Barbra Streisand New Year’s Las Vegas Concert. He has also composed numerous works for the concert stage. For several years, Dreith has owned his own publishing company "Magic Closet Music" and is a partner in "Maverick Music", a music production company for films and commercials.

Dennis is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Film Musicians Secondary Markets Fund (www.fmsmf.org) as well as the Independent Administrator of the AFM & AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund, overseeing the Japanese Record Rental Royalty Fund, the AHRA Fund (Audio Home Recording Act), and Digital Performance Royalties on behalf of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA); See www.dennisdreith.com.

Dreith is on the board of directors for the charity "Environment of People Foundation, Inc.", which "strives to ensure that music remain a central part of our children's lives and growth". www.eopf.org

Production and Mastering Consultant: Doug Sax

Doug Sax has crafted sounds for the icons of the music industry for over forty years. Helping to define the sound of all genres of popular and classical music, Doug has been awarded technical achievement and artistic Grammys, the honorary lifetime Audio Engineering Society membership, and worked with legendary acts such as: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Miles Davis, George Benson, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss and the list goes on...

On December 27, 1967 Doug Sax opened the doors to The Mastering Lab Hollywood, founding one of the first independent facilities in the world, as well as the most recognizable name in mastering. Now located in Ojai California, The Mastering Lab remains a revolutionary state-of-the-art company, utilizing unique concepts of signal flow and electronics pioneered by Doug's brother, Sherwood Sax. Indeed all of our custom-electronics from the tape machines to the equalizers, compressors / limiters, A/D - D/A converters, monitoring amplifiers, and console are all purpose designed and handcrafted. The musical use of this peerless equipment has earned The Mastering Lab more Grammy nominations for engineering than any other mastering facility.

With Lincoln Mayorga, Doug was co-founder and co-owner of the first ultra high quality record label, Sheffield Lab Records. Their landmark recordings continue to be sought after and cherished.

Executive Producer/Producer/Director, David Hoffman:

David Hoffman is one of America's premier documentary filmmakers. For more than 35 years, he has roamed the world finding and recording unusual and provocative stories. His 125 reality films have appeared on primetime PBS, Turner Broadcasting, The Discovery Channel, and Arts & Entertainment. He has produced specials for Nova, The American Experience, and National Geographic. His films have won every major national and international documentary award including: the Emmy®, the Cannes Film Festival Critics Prize, the George Foster Peabody Award, etc.

Mr. Hoffman has produced hundreds of network television commercials, five documentary-style features and eighty-eight prime time PBS® specials and series, including specials for Nova® and The American Experience™. His 125 reality films have appeared on The History Channel®, PBS®, TBS®, HBO®, and The Discovery™ Channel.

Hoffman is known for finding ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. He is a consummate storyteller who uses re-enactments, original music, and never before seen vintage footage, to enhance the drama of his stories. Several of Hoffman's public television documentary specials were among the highest rated television programs of the year that they aired. 

Director of Public Relations: Monica Matulich

Monica Matulich is managing partner and founder of PR Hollywood, a boutique and public relations firm that has served a variety of industries internationally since 1991. Her vast experience with the Entertainment Industry, Governments, the Internet, Consumer Products, Defense Contractors, Retailers, Hospitality, Travel and tourism has generated over $2 billion in client sales.

Spanning a career of nearly twenty years, Ms. Matulich’s senior marketing and PR skills have won government private Request for Proposal bids with such organizations as the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Southern California Rideshare, the Wilshire Chamber of Commerce, Wilshire Wildlife Concerts For Lunch, Brentwood Chamber of Commerce, the Turkish Ministry of Cutlure & Tourism, the Sino-American Cultural Consortium and United Technologies/Sikorsky Helicopter, among others.

While living overseas, Monica became the first Foreign woman to consult with the Turkish government when she created a turnaround marketing strategy that included print, documentary films and television to boost tourism revenues for the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism that resulted in a 60% increase, despite a volatile Middle East climate.

Ms. Matulich has created communications programs in the Consumer and Entertainment Industries for such products as the five time award winning children’s home video program The Adventures of Dave & Becky, (produced by the stars of the WB home video series that sold over $50 million) and she handled the press for the Dual Disc release of Book of Shadows: Blaire Witch 2 that sold over 500,000 copies.

Her vast experience includes working with such brand name companies as: GoodYear, Sprint, Southwest Airlines, WineStyles (138 Franchises), Hansen’s Natural Juices, House of Blues, Cocoa Cola, Intel, HP, Healthshop.com, iCrete, LLC, InsideTrac, The Osteoprosis Institute, Blu Ray Rechnologies, The Latin Divas of Comedy, Global Crossing, Sorenson Media, Globix, E-prise, The Buffalo Saloon in Bejing, China, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The International Society for the Preservation of The Rainforest, the Wildlife Waystation, Ed Asner, Daryl Hall and John Oates, LA Cellular, Disney Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Brother’s Studios, to name a few.

Cinematographer/Producer: Eli Adler

Eli Adler has been shooting film and video professionally since 1980. He has photographed numerous local and national award-winning programs for broadcast, corporate and educational markets including two National Emmys for his cinematography. 

A specialty has been Music Industry projects working on many occasions for MTV, VH1, HBO and Live at the Filmore. He has produced and/or shot artists including Bette Midler, The Rolling stones, The Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, Pat Benetar, Chris Isaac, Metallica, Bonnie Raitt, Train and Gwen Stefani.

Eli has a tremendous amount of international filming experience, having worked in Russia, Egypt, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Australia, Zimbabwe, India, Niger, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Bali, Japan, Scotland, Mexico, Canada, England, Cuba, Iran, and Papua New Guinea.

Some of the Fortune 500 companies he has done work for include Apple, Oracle, The Gap, AT&T, Charles Schwab, IBM, Visa, Sun Microsystems,  Hewlett Packard, Adobe and Cisco Systems.

Director of Corporate Sustainability and Design: Daniel Cook

Daniel Cook has worked in marketing and information design for 22 years. Upon graduation from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Daniel worked in boutique to internationally recognized design firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco before founding his own company, Daniel Cook Design Inc in 1992. His broad experience encompasses all areas of marketing design from print, retail, tradeshow, packaging, and advertising to Internet, Web and social networking.

In the past few years, Daniel Cook Design has incorporated a long-held vision for sustainability into the company where the “triple bottom line” or People, Planet, Profit plays a key role. This includes not only green practices and materials to help the environment, but consideration of the impact on and support of humanity as equal parts of company profit. This commitment, along with years of nonprofit client experience, assures that Daniel will be a valuable member of the Luckyman Records team.

Past and current clients include: BEA Systems, Inc.; California Association of Nonprofits; California Institute of Technology; Kensington, Inc; Lexia Institute (educational software); Oxford Molecular Group (genetic/pharmaceutical modeling software); Plantronics, Inc; Santa Cruz Area Transportation Management Assoc. Schwab Foundation for Learning (nonprofit/dyslexia educational outreach); ShoreTel Inc; Soquel Vineyards; UC Santa Cruz Extension

www.danielcookdesign.com

Production and Mastering Quality Consultant, Doug Sax:

Doug Sax has crafted sounds for the icons of the music industry for over forty years. Helping to define the sound of all genres of popular and classical music, Doug has been awarded technical achievement and artistic Grammys, the honorary lifetime Audio Engineering Society membership, and worked with legendary acts such as: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Miles Davis, George Benson, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss and the list goes on...

On December 27, 1967 Doug Sax opened the doors to The Mastering Lab Hollywood, founding one of the first independent facilities in the world, as well as the most recognizable name in mastering. Now located in Ojai California, The Mastering Lab remains a revolutionary state-of-the-art company, utilizing unique concepts of signal flow and electronics pioneered by Doug's brother, Sherwood Sax. Indeed all of our custom-electronics from the tape machines to the equalizers, compressors / limiters, A/D - D/A converters, monitoring amplifiers, and console are all purpose designed and handcrafted. The musical use of this peerless equipment has earned The Mastering Lab more Grammy nominations for engineering than any other mastering facility.

References

 1. Dennis Dreith: 818-755-7777
 2. Shari Hoffman: 818-755-7777
 3. Joseph Paternoster: 707-588-1440
 4. Rabbi Abraham Cooper: 310-553-9036
 5. Francis Kaminer: 510-655-8640
 6. Ed Asner: 323-863-9052
 7. Brad O’Toole: 207-284-1100
 8. Daniel Cook: 831-459-7335
 9. Jerry Steckling: 707-280-2146