Bob Ezrin

BKE Vice President

BKE Vice President Bob Ezrin first attained fame in the 1970s, producing classic albums for Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, and Kiss. Perhaps the most well-known work Bob produced is Pink Floyd's The Wall.

He is noted as an innovator and technical groundbreaker, having been one of the earliest adopters of multi-machine recording, computer sequencing, sampling, and editing. In 1993, he co-founded a computer software company called 7th Level which developed and published educational and entertainment CD-ROMs including a highly popular and groundbreaking series of Monty Python games. In 1999, he co-founded Enigma Digital, an internet radio provider. Enigma was eventually sold to Clear Channel, where he became vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive.

Ezrin also co-produced the documentary film Fade to Black, starring Jay-Z, which was released in November 2004. Ezrin was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in March, 2006. Ezrin is a trustee of NARAS, Vice President of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a member of MusiCan, CARAS' music education initiative and, along with U2's the Edge and Henry Juszkiewicz the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, a co-founder of Music Rising (www.musicrising.org), an initiative to replace the musical instruments that were destroyed or lost in the gulf coast region due to the hurricanes and flooding of 2005.