LUCKYMAN RECORDS TEAM BIOGRAPHIES

Senior Founding Consultant/Producer: Michael Gliksman
Conservatory trained opera singer, and American Film Institute Producing Fellow, Mr. Gliksman is celebrating 40 years as an Entertainment Industry professional. As a son of two concentration camp survivors from Poland, with the mentoring of famed Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, Michael focused his energies toward creating media projects to teach children lessons of the Holocaust. He established a new school of Human Rights Media Education appropriate for younger children. His film, "Hope Out of the Ashes", starring Liv Ullmann, has been studied by millions in the United States and China.

Mr. Gliksman has spent most of his Entertainment career as an executive and Executive Producer specializing in Development and Charity. He has affiliated with the Simon Weisenthal Center, The Speilberg Shoah Foundation, Turner Broadcastin. He has performed as a singer/songwriter at such world renowned venues as the Top of the Mark in San Francisco, the Troubadour in Los Angeles and the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and is an endorsed artist/producer with the Martin and Taylor Guitar Companies.

Working in the Charitable World for most of his career, Gliksman has become expert in developing projects within the Entertainment Industry for charitable purposes. As a devout Jew, he lives his life for the betterment of the world.

Gliksman, mentored and inspired by such great champions for justice and human rights as Simon Weisenthal, Liv Ullmann and Ted Turner, has committed much of his current life to shepherding Luckyman Records to fruition. Gliksman’s goal is to establish Luckyman Records as obligatory for any musical artist reaching the required level of popularity.

CFO: Joseph Paternoster
Mr. Paternoster has substantial experience in business, investments, tax planning, and in building companies. Mr. Paternoster has two issued patents, with three pending, involving water conservation technologies. Mr. Paternoster has spent much time in the Middle East and North Africa perfecting water technologies for arid regions.

He has owned Paternoster & Associates since 1983, a firm that advises businesses and individuals in tax, investments and financial planning.

Pianist/Production Consultant: Lincoln Mayorga
Often cited as one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood, he was staff pianist at Disney Studios for 20 years and contributed to the soundtrack of such film classics as “Chinatown”, “The Rose”, “The Competition”, “Pete’s Dragon”, “Ragtime”, “The Way We Were”, and “Funny Lady” as well as TV classics like “Bonanza”, “Dallas”, “Fame” “Little House on the Prairie” “Highway to Heaven” and “Touched by an Angel”.

On the Pop side, he was Co-Producer, Arranger and Conductor of Ketty Lester’s classic million selling recording of “Love Letters” and a recording studio stalwart as Pianist, Arranger and Conductor for artists like Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme’, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Vicki Carr, Frank Zappa, Margaret Whiting, Ringo Starr, Phil Ochs and Quincy Jones.

With Doug Sax, Lincoln was co-founder and co-owner of the first ultra high quality record label, Sheffield Lab Records. Their landmark recordings continue to be sought after and cherished.

Production and Mastering Consultant: Doug Sax
Doug Sax has crafted sounds for the icons of the music industry for over forty years. Helping to define the sound of all genres of popular and classical music, Doug has been awarded technical achievement and artistic Grammys, the honorary lifetime Audio Engineering Society membership, and worked with legendary acts such as: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Eagles, Sheryl Crow, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart, Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power, Miles Davis, George Benson, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss and the list goes on...

Doug was co-founder and co-owner of the first ultra high quality record label, Sheffield Lab Records. Sheffield products command high prices today and their original master recordings are frequently reissued under other labels.

Music Industry Consultant: Dennis Dreith
Dennis Dreith has worked as a musician in the film music industry and eventually worked with the Recording Musicians' Association (RMA), becoming its president, a post he held for over 15 years.

Dreith has been the composer for such films as Purple People Eater (1988), The Punisher (1989), and Gag (2005) and his work can be heard in the soundtracks of Jurassic Park, Misery, Braveheart, Addams Family, Sleepless in Seattle, Heart and Souls, A League of Their Own and others. He has orchestrated and/or conducted scores for such pictures as Misery, Addams Family, Heart and Souls and A League of Their Own, providing services for John Williams, Lalo Schifrin, Dominick Frontiere, Marc Shaiman, Hans Zimmer, Eliot Goldenthal, Mark Isham and Cliff Eidelman.

In addition, Dennis has served as Music Supervisor on several major motion pictures as well as Music Consultant on the legendary Barbra Streisand New Year’s Las Vegas Concert.

Executive Producer/Producer/Director: David Hoffman
David Hoffman is one of America's premier documentary filmmakers. For more than 35 years, he has roamed the world finding and recording unusual and provocative stories.

He has produced specials for Nova, The American Experience, and National Geographic. His films have won every major national and international documentary award including: the Emmy®, the Cannes Film Festival Critics Prize, the George Foster Peabody Award, etc.

Mr. Hoffman has produced hundreds of network television commercials, five documentary-style features and eighty-eight prime time PBS® specials and series, including specials for Nova® and The American Experience™. His 125 reality films have appeared on The History Channel®, PBS®, TBS®, HBO®, and The Discovery™ Channel.

His expertise is in television productions involving real people (reality) and these days, especially in web production. David is currently considered by YouTube to be the most successful at the production and distribution of video clips to target and general audiences.

Cinematographer/Producer/Director: Eli Adler
Eli Adler has been shooting film and video professionally since 1980. He has photographed numerous local and national award-winning programs for broadcast, corporate and educational markets including two National Emmys® for his cinematography.

A specialty has been Music Industry projects working on many occasions for MTV, VH1, HBO and Live at the Filmore. He has produced and/or shot artists including Bette Midler, The Rolling stones, The Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, Pat Benetar, Chris Isaac, Metallica, Bonnie Raitt, Train and Gwen Stefani.

Mike Gliksman, Senior Founding Consultant, Luckyman Records
mike@lmanmedia.com
831-423-5523