CALI Holdings, Inc.'s Gulf Coast Records Retains Bryan Switzer as Artist and Radio Consultant Wednesday April 20, 9:15 am ET
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2005--CALI Holdings, Inc. ("Company" or "CALI") (OTCBB:CALI - News), announced today that Bryan Switzer has been retained by Gulf Coast Records for artist and radio consulting. ADVERTISEMENT [Blocked Ads]
From grassroots record promotion to serving as Vice President and General Manager of a major record label, Mr. Bryan Switzer's career provides him with a unique grasp of virtually all aspects of the music industry.
During his ten-year tenure at Atlantic Records in Nashville, revenues for the country division jumped an astounding $9M over a two-year period. As Atlantic/Nashville's Vice President/General Manager, Mr. Switzer was responsible for all operations, including finance, sales, and product development, personnel and record promotion. His involvement in individual album projects often began at the A&R level and continued through album art, trade ads, retail merchandising, video production and Radio Promotion. Mr. Switzer joined the Time Warner Company in 1990 when the country division of Atlantic Records was launched. Beginning his label career as Regional Manager of Promotions, Mr. Switzer was elevated to Director of National Promotions a year later and was named Vice President of National Promotions in 1992. During his tenure as Vice President of National Promotions, Atlantic established the careers of many artists including John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Lawrence, Confederate Railroad and Neal McCoy. Mr. Switzer's department set the industry's record for the most-added debut record by a new artist and went on to score 17 chart-toping records for Tracy Lawrence.
As Vice President and General Manager, Mr. Switzer introduced innovative plans and strategies to establish artists by creating a system of teams to develop marketing plans for each project. With Atlantic Nashville achieving an 11% market share, Mr. Switzer's marketing teams implemented plans that developed four platinum artists and sales of almost 25 million records.
In 1999, after a two-year reprieve from the records industry, Mr. Switzer was recruited by Tim DuBois. Mr. DuBois, the former Arista Nashville President, was introducing a new label with partner Tony Brown, former president of MCA Nashville. Mr. Switzer was asked to assemble and head the promotion department for Universal South Label Group, a joint venture with Universal Music. As Senior Vice President National Promotion and Artist Development, Mr. Switzer was responsible for developing and implementing a marketing plan, which resulted in the labels debut artist, Joe Nichols, scoring back-to-back #1 records out-of-the-box and propelling Nichols to stardom. Mr. Switzer also spearheaded the efforts, which would gain Pat Green, a successful Texas performer, his first national Top 5 single and Platinum album.
With a degree in Business Management from Ohio State University, Mr. Switzer founded and operated his own independent record promotion company in 1988. He is a former member of the Country Radio Broadcasters' Board of Directors, an alumnus of Leadership Nashville and Leadership Music, and a member of the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science.
The CEO of CALI Holdings Inc., James E. Jenkins stated, "We're extremely honored and excited to have such a distinguished country music executive join the team at Gulf Coast Records. With Bryan's expertise in Artist Development and National Radio promotion, we look forward to bringing the label to the next level."
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: KMA Capital Partners, Ltd., Orlando Jack Craig, 407-370-4300 Fax: 407-226-3977 info@KMAcapital.com http://www.KMAcapital.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: CALI Holdings, Inc.
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