Zenbu Media is a vertically-integrated media company with four core divisions; Print, Digital, Events and Records. - Relix Magazine, an award winning music magazine founded in 1974 focused on improvisational live music and recently accepted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - Global Rhythm Magazine, the defining World Music magazine and the only one published in the United States. - Metal Edge and Metal Maniacs magazines, two of the leading heavy metal magazines in the U.S. published for 22 years and 17 years, respectively. - A custom publishing business that creates Festival newspapers such as the “Bonnaroo Beacon”, a newspaper distributed daily at the Bonnaroo Music Festival, and Tourzine, a fully customized “Playbill” targeted at concert audiences and branded for bands and music tours. Both publications are advertiser supported and distributed free at music venues. DIGITAL - Zendition, digital publishing software that replicates the page turning experience of print publications. - Eight websites create a significant digital footprint including Jambands.com, Jammys.com, Relix.com and Zendition.com, two highly rated music pod casts, growing mobile presence and a vast database of opt-in email addresses and cell phone numbers. EVENTS - The Jammy Awards, a music industry awards show, which, in its seventh year, has been successfully syndicated to leading television stations. - The Green Apple Music & Arts Festival, the largest Earth Day event in the country. RECORDS - Relix Records, a record company with a catalog of classic rock titles, including the rights to 75 master recordings from 25 recording artists. Relix Records had five new releases in 2006. THE RELIX BAND - “The Relix Band,” charity program making guitar string bracelets
with strings from famous artists as well as “Wear your music”
a for-profit retail bracelet program.
Steve Bernstein, Publisher, President Steve Bernstein is the President and vision behind Zenbu Media. Mr. Bernstein retired from Citigroup in March 2005 after a 23-year career in order to focus his full time and attention on his growing media company. He spent most of his career in fixed income sales and trading at Salomon Brothers, now Citigroup, in New York and Japan. In his most recent post, Mr. Bernstein served as Global Head of Securities Services and previously as Head of Business Continuity for Citigroup globally. Mr. Bernstein also served as Chief of Staff to Michael Carpenter during the latter’s tenure as Chairman and CEO of Salomon Smith Barney. After heading the division of Asian Fixed Income, he then became Chief Administrative Officer in Tokyo from 1994 to 1999. He has a B.A from Boston University. Mr. Bernstein has been profiled in Publishing Executive, Folio’s March 2007 Edition, Private Air magazine and Celebrityaccess.com. He recently spoke at Folio’s 2007 publishing conference on “Big Ideas Track.”
Kathryn Stoddard joined the company in 2001 as Associate Publisher. She has been Co-Executive Producer of the Jammys since 2002 and, in addition to being Chief Operating Officer, now currently also serves as Executive Director of the Green Apple Festival LLC. Prior to joining Zenbu Media, Ms. Stoddard was active in the magazine and newspaper business for over 20 years. From 1994 through 2000, she was a senior manager at New Mass. Media Inc. where she worked as Director of Web Publishing and Director of Corporate Development. From 1993 to 1995, Ms. Stoddard was Development Manager for the “50 Communities Program,” a non-governmental program to honor the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. As a journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, she was Managing Editor of New Mass. Media’s Literary Supplement. Ms. Stoddard was a staff reporter for the Valley Advocate (where she often interviewed rock musicians) and published articles in the Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Advocate Weekly Newspapers, Parents Magazine and many other periodicals. She was a non-profit grant writer attracting funders such as The Peace Development Fund and the Mass. Foundation for Arts & Humanities. Ms. Stoddard has a B.A. from New York University and a Masters degree from the University of Massachusetts.
Alecia J. Cohen joined Zenbu Media in 2005 and is the Associate Publisher for its current print and online titles: Relix, Global Rhythm, Metal Edge, Metal Maniacs and Jambands.com. Prior to becoming Associate Publisher, Ms. Cohen was Zenbu Media's Director of Sales & Business Development and designed multi-media sales programs for corporate, travel and entertainment advertisers. Ms. Cohen is also the founder of the trendsetting Global Rhythm magazine. In 1992, the then 21-year-old launched a print publication aimed at spotlighting emerging ethnic music trends, thereby helping American consumers expand their horiz ons and lifestyles through exposure to international culture, particularly world music, film, cuisine and travel. Today Global Rhythm is the leading publication in its field. Ms. Cohen has served as music consultant for filmmakers, Link Television, the Direct- TV network featuring world news, human rights issues and world music. She has served as a board member for several music labels and lectured at the World Bank's Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development in Africa. Ms. Cohen has been featured in various print and TV venues including CNN Financial News, Entrepreneurial Edge, in the August ‘04 issue of Entrepreneur and is a presenter at the 2007 Folio Conference.
Aeve Baldwin joined Zenbu Media in November, 2000. Previously, she was Editor of Tokyo Classified (now Metropolis), a weekly English-language magazine published in Tokyo, Japan, and a Contributing Editor to the Tokyo edition of Time Out’s international guidebook series. Ms. Baldwin was a frequent lecturer on the Tokyo circuit, including the Society of Writers, Editors and Translators (“SWET”), The American School in Japan and the University of Pennsylvania Teachers in Japan series. From 1990 – 1996, she was a Foreign Legal Consultant at an intellectual property firm in Tokyo. Ms. Baldwin holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Memberships include SWET and the American Society of Magazine Editors (“ASME”).
Jonathan Schwartz, VP Marketing Jonathan Schwartz has extensive experience in grassroots marketing, event production, music promotion and artist management. Mr. Schwartz is an on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio and a member of the Board of Directors of Head Count, a non-profit voter registration organization. He brings extensive experience in the live music promotion and venue marketing. Prior to Relix, Mr. Schwartz was Marketing Director for Phoenix Media (a jamgroove focused record label), where he ran the street teams and new media operations. Previously, Mr. Schwartz served as Promotions Director for the Wetlands Preserve, where he promoted hundreds of shows and coordinated grassroots marketing efforts, and Music Coordinator for the Makor cultural center in New York City, and he founded and operated Groove City Productions, a marketing consulting company for touring acts. Mr. Schwartz has a [B.A.] from University of Missouri.
Rachel Seiden, Vice President, Advertising & Integrated Sales Rachel Seiden joined Zenbu Media as the Integrated Sales Director from Condé Nast Media Group. Ms. Seiden worked in Condé Nast's interactive department for the preceding two years designing sales programs for corporate advertisers across media and entertainment, auto, consumer electronics, travel, food, techtelecom and consumer package goods. She has also worked extensively on the Condé Nast premiere event, Fashion Rocks, and spent 5 years at The New Yorker. Ms. Seiden brings great knowledge and experience of the print and online worlds. |
Kathy Stoddard, Chief Operating Officer
Alecia
J, Cohen, Senior Vice President, Business Development
Aeve Baldwin, Group Editor
