Ben Lazar: Photographer (www.benlazar.com) in Reno, NV

* Experienced commercial, fine art, landscape, wedding, fashion and family photographer in New York City and Reno, Nevada. * Photography instructor and mentor for individual clients and class at Action Camera in Reno, NV. * Photography in Burning Man permanent collection.

• Creator and writer for "A Deeper Shade Of Soul" music blog. • Featured on AOL's "Spinner" Homepage, Conde Nast, NPR, and other websites. • Writer of over 200 music biographies for major label and independent recording artists. • Consultant and on air talent for Sirius/XM's E Street Radio (Bruce Springsteen) channel.

• Created, built and ran the A&R Research department. • Responsible for finding emerging regional talent in all genres. Discovered, signed and developed two artists with top 10 records (Thursday & Blue Merle)

Created CMJ's Artist Services website, providing artists with promotional tools on the Internet.

Selected and booked 1000 bands over four nights for CMJ Music Marathon.

Secured recording agreements for new artists

• Scheduled all of Elektra's releases in all genres • Responsible for shipment of all promotional product to radio and staff • Created the first A&R Research department in Elektra history