Social good is always on my mind.

Achieving 40 plus years as a successful record company executive in the niche and major music outlets for Jamaican Music, out of New York, London, Miami & Jamaica I have been focused in the last 20 years on the structural gap that exists between Jamaica and her international markets in the Creative Industry.  With lifestyle industry and digital technology being the leading drivers for music industry developments, the Intellectual Property assets of the music have been my focus to bridge the gap.  Branding and digital applications offers myriad opportunities, particularly fan based subscription models .

I am known in the Artist and Repertoire field, with and through establishing Coxsone’s Music City/Studio One with my uncle, Clement Dodd in New York, Sugar Minott and his Black Roots/Youth Promotion label, Kenneth Black & his Skengdon studios & label and VP Records with the Chin family..  My work at the Major international labels of Sony/Columbia and Universal/Island/Tuff Gong/Motown beginning in 1990, put me with the mainstream crossover dancehall and reggae artists, new and established, a virtual who is who of Jamaican music in collaboration with many current artist/business personalities in the Hip Hop Urban space.   The center of the emergence and international success of Reggaeton, my first major label album project being Dancehall ReggaeEspanol from which I signed my first Dancehall artist Super Cat.  My last major label project in 2001 was the reissue of the Bob Marley solo catalog on Island/Universal Records and label deal with Ghetto Youths/Motown with Stephen & Damian Marley.

Primarily domiciled in Jamaica since 2001 through a proposed joint venture deal with Virgin/EMI & Studio One that was shelved, it set me on the Legacy development/music museum pathway. I began collaborating with WIPO in the area of Intellectual Property Rights and related Holding Company, to attract and partner with the international entertainment industry of which I remain an active executive. The identification of the Rastafari Community as a major stakeholder led to me organizing and structuring their existing IP framework and began a decade long collaboration with the late Hon. Bunny Wailer in 2010 as the major philanthropist of the community that extended to his own IP and works as a solo artist, The Wailers group and the Ganja Industry.

Current Music Ventures

Ventures in Dancehall IP including Reggaeton & Afrobeats, reissue and new artists on the Skengdon label like Swnkah, the daughter of Sugar Minott & Maxine Stowe & The Wailers Trio Tribute Group along with the individual members solo careers.