Rick Garson brings to MPIX over 20 years experience as a top-flight Executive Producer whose credits include creation of the Billboard Music Awards, the Blockbuster Awards, America's Party Live from Las Vegas, World Music Awards, NFL Jams, The International Day of Peace Concert & Global Peace awareness campaign, Super Bowl TV Specials, and the Global Harmony Concert Series which launched with Divas in Beijing – "the premiere cultural event of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games." To date Rick has managed to build an award winning team that has been involved in producing and directing some of the world's largest entertainment events, such as Academy Awards (Oscars), Grammy Awards, Super Bowl, Olympics, Live Aid, MTV Awards, Live Earth, and more. Rick's expertise in entertainment, multi-media development, sales, marketing and distribution allows ZZYX to go past script to screen production to provide total solutions and fully monetize media properties. He is renowned for creating highly original groundbreaking multi-media concepts, and implementing brand integration into TV shows and corporate media-driven sponsorship packages for world tours, aligning the music industry's most prestigious acts with Fortune 500 companies.
German Gonzalez brings to MPIX over eighteen years experience and working relationships developed in Latin Music concert production, promotions and corporate advertisers and sponsors. German has produced and promoted concerts that have presented the music artists: Cabas, Tito Rojas , Tito Nieves , Gilberto Santa Rosa , Victor Manuele , Grupo Niche, Puerto Rican Power, Elvis Crespo , Willy Colon , La Makina and Daddy Yankee, Don Omar , Wisin y Yandel, Hector y Tito, Ivi Queen , Luni Tunes and Tego Calderon . German Gonzalez became one of the main event producers in Los Angeles, CA producing major events such as: L.A. Latin Music Festival, L.A. Colombian Festival, Whittier Narrows Summer Fest. Hansen Dam Park 4th of July Event, Fiesta Broadway and more than five different stages at Fiesta Broadway. Based on this track record and success media companies like Telemundo, La Opinion, L.A. Times came together to be the media partners at his events. German has worked with sponsors such as Samsung, Subway, MAC Cosmetics, Inter-Continental Hotels and Copa Airlines and Western Union, Coca-Cola, Ford, Red Bull , Budweiser and Miller Lite.
Julius John brings to MPIX over twenty years experience as a specialist in the diverse areas of musical theatre, theatrical education, acting, directing, theater management, and theatre development. Julius John is currently an Associate Professor and The Director of Theatre at Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. To accompany Julius' theatrical talents and experience he is also involved in the world of fashion; having served as the Vice President for Fashion News Live, from now owning his own boutique to regularly attending Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and been seen on MTV's, The Real World as a fashion consultant. MPIX welcomes Julius' many talents. As a person who has directed, acted and produced over hundreds of shows in both the U.S. and Europe, we know Julius will function well at MPIX.
