Jay Rifkin

Jay Rifkin

Audio

Jay Rifkin brings more than 25 years of building entertainment, technology and marketing companies that have successfully envisioned and capitalized on media and consumer trends.

He was a principal founder and CEO of Media Ventures, a creative entertainment cooperative that has produced more than two hundred major motion picture and television soundtracks.

Jay Rifkin’s writing and producing work on Disney’s “The Lion King” drove soundtrack sales to more than 30 million copies worldwide and earned him a Grammy Award, two American Music Awards and an Ivor Novello.

Jay Rifkin brings more than 25 years of building entertainment, technology and marketing companies that have successfully envisioned and capitalized on media and consumer trends.

He was a principal founder and CEO of Media Ventures, a creative entertainment cooperative that has produced more than two hundred major motion picture and television soundtracks.

Jay Rifkin’s writing and producing work on Disney’s “The Lion King” drove soundtrack sales to more than 30 million copies worldwide and earned him a Grammy Award, two American Music Awards and an Ivor Novello.

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Jay’s long and varied career as a producer, mixer and engineered has ranged from Pop to Classical and almost everything in between.

His credits include Whitney Houston, Roberta Flack, Jimmy Buffett, John Denver, Chaka Khan, Placido Domingo, Nina Simone, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Béla Fleck, Jennifer Rush and many more.

In 1995, Jay Rifkin founded Mojo Records, a multi-platinum joint venture with Universal that he sold to Zomba/BMG in 2001. Mojo’s Platinum and Gold selling artists included Goldfinger, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and Reel Big Fish.

Jay Rifkin began his corporate career by building the audio electronics company Xonex, which he took public at the age of 27. He is also a founder of the innovative audio mastering company Sana360.

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