SUCCESS ENTERTAINMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head
- EVP of Talent Scouting
As the head of our talent scouting department, Billy Rassel brings over 20 years of experience to the table, as a film, TV and music producer, working as a DJ and engineer, and an astute use of social media. His past and current participation with Johnny Depp, Christopher Walker, and Disney just to name a few, makes him uniquely and expertly suited to manage, curate and execute the creative vision of individual artists as well as large projects alike. He is a hands-on executive with a talent for discovering new faces and talents, and their development and management.
Job Titles:
- President of LIVE Events & Concerts
Our concerts and live events department is headed by Doug Ivanovich, a musician and producer who is a 30+-year veteran of the music industry. His professional career spans four decades in entertainment, production, broadcasting, marketing, PR and business development. He is the Chairman of the World Peace One group of companies and Executive Producer of Storm Aid, and a series of upcoming global concerts and broadcasts, which we are very privileged to support and participate in, not only with our talent, but also with our production sponsorship and network.
Doug was co-founder of World TV Productions, a joint venture with Dick Clark Productions, and a principal of SkyLink, a video / audio distribution service whose clients included Universal, Disney, Columbia, Paramount, Warner, Sony, MGM, plus 6,000 TV Stations and virtually every TV network on Earth. A pioneer of Humanitarian Broadcasting, his projects included Live Aid, Farm Aid I & II, the UN Earth Summit, the World Environment Day broadcast, and numerous Comic Relief Specials, Jerry Lewis Telethons, United Negro College Fund Telethons, and more. Doug has worked in concert production with Bill Graham Productions, Tom Moffatt Productions of Hawaii, Colorado's Barry Fey of Feyline Productions, and others. Doug is also an active Executive Producer on a variety of music recording projects and artists' musical careers. He is a long-time activist and strategist for the causes of Peace, Ecology, Human Rights and Citizen Diplomacy.
Job Titles:
- Co - President Music Production and Education
Caillat was the president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which has worked on albums for Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker and Alice Cooper as well as Christine McVie on her solo album In the Meantime, in addition to Fleetwood Mac, remastering several of their albums in 5.1 surround sound. He won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Rumours.
In addition to production, he has been a director, studio engineer, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences engineering the 1977 Rumours album, called Making Rumours. In 2013 Caillat co founded Sleeping Giant Music Group, LLC (a Sleeping Giant Media company) with Grammy nominated writer/producer Michael Hodges and writer/producer Kayla Morrison. In 2014, Sleeping Giant partnered with Alcon Entertainment to form ASG Music Group, Llc.
Marina is a true veteran of the business with over 28 years of experience, who specializes in managing models and transitioning them into the entertainment business through modeling agencies she herself built from the ground up. Her models have been placed in most of the world's top agencies including, IMG NY and Paris, NEXT Paris, London, NY and LA, ELITE worldwide and ELITE MODEL LOOK, Beatrice, Riccardo Gay, Fashion, Why Not - Milano, Premier, Storm, Models One - London, as well as agencies in Asia, Australia and the rest of the Europe. After 25 years of scouting models globally, and placing them into these top agencies, Marina's current focus is on scouting and identifying, preparing and transitioning top model talent from print media into Television and Film. Her main goal is to find the right projects so they can grow in the entertainment industry. Marina has developed great relations over the years in the movie, TV and music industry with directors, producers, writer, merchandisers, and is even an accomplished script writer in her own right. She is well-surrounded with her domestic and international business network.
Mikal Blue is an Grammy-winning, multi-platinum selling, English music producer, songwriter, engineer, mixer and instrumentalist best known for his work developing acts such as OneRepublic, Colbie Caillat, Jason Mraz and Five For Fighting. As an artist his band Opium was signed to A&M Records in the 90s. He is currently signed to SonyATV as a songwriter. As a producer Mikal Blue has worked with countless artists including Colbie Caillat, OneRepublic, Jason Mraz, James Blunt, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Glen Phillips, Hope, Toni Braxton, Augustana, Alex G, Angel Taylor, Jason Reeves, Brendan James, The Daylights, Kevin Hammond, Nikki Sixx, Don Felder, and Keaton Simons.
Job Titles:
- President of Music Production
Nate Lennox is a singer, songwriter, producer, studio engineer, mixer and multi-instrumentalist from Oxford, UK. He was the front man, principal songwriter and producer for British alternative indie band ‘A Silent Film'. Having toured for many years, headlining venues and festivals in Europe, North and Central America, the band also had singles playlisted with KROQ and Alt Nation SIRUS XM, coming 4th in the Alt Nation's end of year ‘Alt-18' and 1st for Alt Nation's ‘In-Studio performance of The Year' 2010.
Between touring and studio commitments with the band, Nate continued to write and produced music with artists from London and his hometown Oxford. In 2013 one such band ‘Fixers' signed a major record and publishing deal with Mercury, Universal. Unable to get satisfactory results in the studio without him the band hired Nate to produce their debut album ‘We'll Be The Moon', securing his first major label release as a producer. As of 2017 A Silent Film went on permanent hiatus, and Nate relocated to Los Angeles to work with Mikal Blue at Revolver Recordings, where he writes, produces and mixes with developing artists.
Job Titles:
- Co - President of Music Production and Education
Richard Rudolph started in the music business as a songwriter at Chicago's legendary Chess Recors in 1969. There he began a multi-song collaboration with Charles Stepney, the renowned producer of Earth, Wind and Fire fame. Rudolph's career as a record producer began when he and Stevie Wonder joined forces to produce Minnie Riperton's million-selling album, Perfect Angel. Included in this album was the song, "Lovin' You" written by Richard Rudolph and Minnie Riperton, which went on to become a #1 song around the world and has turned out to be one of the most performed songs of all time. Richard also has many music supervision credits for a host of feature films. He has overseen films for cable, mini series and movies made for television. Rudolph has also served as the exclusive music consultant to HBO Pictures, and was President of the Atlantic Records distributed label Third Stone Records, a company he co-founded with partner (actor/producer) Michael Douglas. Rudolph's various musical endeavors as a writer, producer, music supervisor and label executive have contributed to worldwide sales in excess of 30 million albums and countless song placements in film, television and commercials.
Job Titles:
- Department Director
- EVP of IT Department
Our IT department director Vadim Balakin is well-versed in the use of the latest technologies and programming, developing websites and the effective use of social media. He has over 20 years of experience in entertainment, government and medical program development and supervision of operations. With his market and administration experience we are confident in developing our in-house platform that will consist of all of our departments, talents, sub-contractors, sales, merchandising, and audience engagement, a system that will be alive 24/7. This will assure our best performance and maximize the reach of our marketing department and its cross-marketing strategies on multiple levels.