MANAGEMENT CONTACT INFO

HOWARD POLLACK
President
405-364-3700
howard@pmgroupar.com

While attending Brooklyn College in the early 1970's, Howard Pollack started in the music industry as a high profile rock concert photographer whose photos appeared in many of the popular magazines of the decade. From there, he was introduced into the concert promotion business and started his own company in Colorado in 1972. For the past 23 years, Howard Pollack has been a name synonymous with successful, large venue rock and popular music concerts throughout the U.S. and more than 15 foreign countries.

In 1978, Howard helped to start the Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheater and to convert a totally obsolete amphitheater, into a 9000 seat modern outdoor arena. Howard not only helped to renovate and updated the amphitheater, he was also instrumental in getting many of the city's civic-minded and growth-oriented companies and individuals to contribute a large portion of their time, money and energy towards the renovation project. Such a broad and extensive collaboration for renovation of a facility for the arts was unheard of in this region until this time. Since Howard's innovative use of this obsolete city amphitheater, many other spin-off projects were initiated to renovate obsolete city structures. The resulting renovation was a world class 9,000 seat amphitheater which presented such acts as the Grateful Dead, Dire Straits, Sting, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell to name a few. Howard worked this amphitheater, promoting concerts and bringing acts into the Oklahoma City area for 7 years following its inception.

In conjunction with this project, Howard started his own ticket agency; New Dawn Tickets, which sold tickets to all major events in this particular market. In addition to this, he expanded his business to include an advertising agency called Red Sky Advertising, which handled the advertising and public relations for his concerts and promotions throughout the Mid-West. Howard also began an entertainment newspaper by the name of Stagepass Magazine. The magazine became so successful; it evolved into the still popular Jam Magazine.

By 1985, Howard Pollack's reputation had reached the point where he was approached by the world-renowned heart specialist, Dr. Christian Barnard, to spearhead a series of benefits for the Heart Foundation. Howard was asked to book and produce these concerts featuring some of the most successful artists in the world, including Frank Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, Pavarotti, and Bill Cosby. This star-filled benefit series became the prototype for many of the other charitable organizations as well.



CESAR MORALES
Vice President
405-364-3700
cesar@pmgroupar.com

Cesar Morales has a diverse and impressive background as a producer of live music and concerts and other international events. He also has academic training in architecture and successful practical experience in venue construction and event logistics. He is bilingual (English and Spanish), and has focused most of his career activities on the Americas.

Cesar began his career in his native Bolivia where, at the early age of sixteen, he supervised a crew of approximately 240, providing logistical support and coordination for the production of the official documentary video of the 1975 Pan American Games. In that year, he was also in charge of the production crew, as well as certain aspects of publicity for the three-day Festival del Tawantinsuyo, which to this day, stands as the largest international music festival ever held in Bolivia.

From 1976 through 1979, Cesar studied architecture at the Catholic University of Cordoba in Argentina, and San Andres University in La Paz, Bolivia. His design projects include several public facilities, including a competitive swimming venue and a state fair.

Cesar moved to the United States in 1982, and for the next 15 years, based his operations primarily out of Norman, Oklahoma, and Bolivia. In 1985, he received his degree in Business Management. His entertainment activities included production of a two-hour radio program, fashion shows, and two TV shows in Bolivia - one a national show and the other a successful La Paz primetime multicultural show, Doble Fondo. He co-produced CD projects involving top Bolivian artists, as well as managed internationally the Fusion Jazz and Andean music group, Altiplano, for nine years, producing U.S. and European tours and a No. 1 CD in Bolivia, Rebeldia de los Condores. Cesar was also a principal developer of a major motorcycle-racing venue in Bolivia, which has been host to the Latin American Championship and other international events. Cesar is well known, highly respected, and has excellent contacts in the entertainment industry.

Cesar's home is in Norman, Oklahoma, where he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Norman Arts & Humanities Council's Jazz in June Festival. He is married and has two children.

 

TOM SCHADEGG
Chief Financial Officer
359-6550
tom@pmgroupar.com

Tom graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1975, passed the CPA exam the same year and went to work for one of the Big Eight accounting firms at that time. He worked for the same firm for 13 years in offices in St. Paul, Minnesota, New York City and then to Oklahoma City where he left the firm in 1988 to work as chief financial officer for one of his clients who was in the government contracting business. After three years he left that company to start his own accounting practice specializing in small business accounting and taxation. Since that time he has built a thriving accounting business and become part owner in a number of small businesses in the cable installation market in various cities across the southwest. In 2004 along with two partners, he became an investor in the operation of the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre and gained valuable experience in the operation of outdoor concerts and the ticketing business.

 

DAVID BEERLEY
Promotions Director
405-203-0015
david@pmgroupar.com