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Tom Gimbel High Wire founder and President Tom Gimbel has over 17 years of experience in the music industry. Beginning in 1990 with Austin, TX based Amazing Records, Tom has seen all sides of the entertainment industry: as an artist manager, a project director for an independent marketing company, and as a major label executive holding senior posts in both sales and marketing. Following a two-year stint with Amazing Records, where he eventually rose to Director of Sales and Marketing, Mr. Gimbel moved to the Northeast to join Hard Core Marketing – the then start-up marketing arm of Alliance Entertainment, Inc. While at Hard Core, Mr. Gimbel worked with numerous major and independent label clients and received the NARM Award for “Best Overall Campaign” in the Retail Marketing category. In 1995, Tom joined Arista Records as Marketing Manager. In nine plus years at Arista Records, Mr. Gimbel held posts as Regional Director of Sales for both the Southwest and Northeast regions, as Senior Director of National Sales, and as Senior Director of National Marketing. While at Arista, Tom helped to develop the careers of numerous superstar artists including Outkast, Santana, Sarah McLachlan, Whitney Houston, Usher, Kenny G, Avril Lavigne, TLC, Pink, and many more. His greatest satisfaction however came from working with developing artists. The desire to work with new and developing talent was the motivation to form High Wire Music. Mr. Gimbel holds a BA in History from the University of Texas at Austin. His obsessive devotion to the Texas Longhorns is second only to his passion for music.
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