Stephen Dessau — Stephen Dessau has devoted his entire 35 year music marketing career to building brands, both for individual artists/bands, as well as for a long list of Fortune 500 companies. He spent 10 years in the record industry in senior marketing positions with Epic Records (a division of Sony) and Arista Records before founding Track Entertainment, a groundbreaking and highly successful music marketing company in 1986.
In 1992, Stephen sold Track to the Warner Music Group, marking the first sale of an independent music marketing company to a major entertainment corporation.He is widely respected as a pioneer in creating and implementing fully integrated music and entertainment marketing strategies for major clients and their agencies.
Stephen led all new business development for Track Entertainment and developed an array of successful music programs for clients including:
PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, McDonalds, Jim Beam, Hershey’s, Quaker Oats, Levi- Strauss, JC Penney, L’Oreal, 7-UP, Seagram’s, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Exxon-Mobil, MasterCard, Discover Card, Tropicana, Federated Stores, HP/Compaq, Taco Bell and others
Stephen formed Revolver Marketing Group alongside Larry Stessel in January of 2006.
Larry Stessel — Larry Stessel has been a widely respected and successful senior music executive for over 25 years and has been responsible for marketing some of the biggest selling albums in music history. He has served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of three major music companies (Epic/Sony, Mercury/Universal and EMI Records) and President of an independent distribution company directing label development and acquisition, sales, artist relations and marketing. In addition, Larry has produced and directed highly rated television specials for Michael Jackson and Gloria Estefan receiving the Cable Ace Award for Showtime’s Gloria Estefan Homecoming Special.
Larry’s client list has included some of the biggest companies and artists in the music business including Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, EMI Records, the NFL, Sting, The Who, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Pearl Jam and Michael Jackson. Stessel is one of those rare individuals with the savvy, knowledge, relationships and vision to help clients navigate a music universe that may be unfamiliar to them. In 1998, Stessel formed Trillium Entertainment, a marketing consulting firm for the music industry with clients ranging from Diana Ross to Sting.
Stessel created Revolver Marketing Group in 2006 with Stephen Dessau in order to combine their knowledge and background in the music business with the world of event marketing for artists and consumer brands.
Mr. Stessel is an Associate Member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), a graduate and Board Member of Leadership Music in Nashville (2009), a Board Member of the TennesseePerformingArtsCenter and a voting member of the Country Music Association (CMA).
