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Alex Ewen (CEO of RWE) was the co-founder and Senior Vice-President of Renegade Nation also known as Underground Garage, a production company that inspired the new Garage Rock revival that has brought Rock and Roll back to the mainstream. Alex has produced hundreds of concerts, including a major festival at Randall's Island, a live New Year's Eve television broadcast from Times Square for ESPN and MSN, a battle of the bands that was broadcast on MTV, national concert tours, more than 100 club shows, and two music channels on Sirius Satellite Radio. He has also acquired major sponsorship partnerships, including Dunkin' Donuts, Anheuser Busch, ATT, Muzak, Gibson, Klipsch, and others.

David Kenneth Eng's (President of RWE) music business career spans over three decades and three continents. He is responsible for selling over 20 million records worldwide and has earned 13 gold and platinum RIAA awards.

Michael "Eppy" Epstein is a legendary club owner, having owned the seminal rock club, My Father's Place in Long Island. At My Father's Place, Epstein nurtured some of Rock's most important bands including, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Billy Joel, The Police, The Go-Gos, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Blondie and The Talking Heads, as well as unknown comics such as Eddie Murphy, Andy Kaufman, and Billy Crystal. Epstein was the only major club owner in America to regularly incorporate reggae and booked virtually every important reggae act, helping to make it a mainstream phenomena. Eppy acquired WLIR in the early 1970's and turned it into one of the most important radio stations in the country, and his live broadcasts from My Father's Place are legendary. After My Father's Place closed, Epstein continued to book shows, recently working for the past seven years with Little Steven Van Zandt to help find new Garage Rock bands and put them on tour.

Denis McNamara began in the early days of FM radio at New York's WNYU-FM and WNEW-FM. In the late '70s, Denis became Program Director at WLIR, and turned it into the premiere Modern Rock station of the 1980's. Denis is unanimously credited with almost single-handedly creating the New Wave and alternative radio formats that defined a generation and swept the nation, introducing major new acts such as Depeche Mode, the Police, Midnight Oil, The Cure, U2, and many, many, others. Denis later became an International Vice President at Universal Music, heading their Polygram/Polydor labels. from there he helped to reignite Broadway's sagging fortunes by signing such hits as "Mama Mia" and "Wicked."

Jimmy Wee was formerly the President of Warner Music Singapore, and an executive at EMI and Pony/Canon. He currently promotes Singaporean musicians as the head of Springroll Creative Entertainment Agency. He also produces special events, concerts, film, TV, and print content in Singapore. One of Asia's most important and influential promoters,

Frank Takeshita was formerly the Vice President of Marketing for JVC Entertainment Networks, the General manager of Zomba (Jive) Records Japan and SonyBMG. He was also President of Horizon International and Deputy General Manager and Label manager for Atlantic, Interscope, Elektra and worldwide EastWest labels for EastWest Japan. Frank is currently the General Manager of Creative Man Productions and is one of the most accomplished executives in the Japanese music industry. Creative man Productions is the largest concert promoter in Japan, producing over 100 tours per year, including stars such as Eminem, Radiohead, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Lenny Kravitz, as well as up-and-coming unsigned bands. Creative Man Productions is best known for the Summer Sonic Festival, which takes place simultaneously in Japan's two largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka, and attracts over 200,000 fans.