Gabe Sandler

Gabriel Paul Sandler (born September 5, 1979 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American activist, writer, and electronic musician. He is best known for his role as President & Chief Executive Officer of the investor relations firm Sandler Communications and is the largest single shareholder of the Spike TV reality show Reality Racing.
* Sandler is a Board Member of Reality Racing Incorporated and Organic Energy Consulting LLP . He is also a member of NIRI, ACG, PRSA, XBRL US , SBA, GTS , SmallCap Investors Alliance, Apple Computer Consultants' Network, PRMIA, NYSSA, TexChange, Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, and the BBB.
Background
Gabe Sandler once told Business Week magazine that "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 Gigabytes." This play on words from the famous quotation by pop artist Andy Warhol has shaped Sandler's philosophy both professionally and artistically. In 2006, Sandler popularized the concept of Investor Relations 2.0 , a modern approach to public company corporate communications designed for enhanced transparency and digital reputation management for the Digital Age. After graduating from the University of Michigan with honors in 2001, Sandler relocated to Houston, Texas, where he currently resides and manages Sandler Communications.
Sandler & Television
In September of 2007, Gabe Sandler purchased approximately 46.5% of the shares of the public company Reality Racing Incorporated, a holding company of reality television entertainment properties that focus on the racing industry. The company's first show, Reality Racing, premiered May 19th, 2007 on Spike TV , a division of Viacom's MTV Networks business unit. The show's first season, "Reality Racing -- The Rookie Challenge", was a vital part of Spike TV's Powerblock of programming, which also included the popular shows Bullrun and . The show was the market leader amongst male audiences 18 to 49 years of age, and achieved the highest ratings of any fully-distributed cable channel during that time period.
Sandler & Music
Gabe Sandler was introduced to electronic music in the late-1980's growing up in the Detroit, Michigan area, where innovative radio DJs like the Electrifyin' Mojo, the Wizard (Jeff Mills) and Gary Chandler took over the airwaves nightly to inspire the market with unconventional new sounds and artists. Inspired by the more electronic sounds and live-mixing styles of Mills and Chandler, and a rapidly-flourishing "alternative rock" movement in the early-1990s, Sandler produced his first track in 1992 as part of a school project. He took up DJing a year later by splicing mixtapes together, but a serendipitous discovery of a discarded record collection in a dumpster in the fall of 1993 launched him immediately into an obsessive career of vinyl DJing and live production. He is now most known for marathon sets meshing together hundreds of records, and layering influences of all genres, from gospel to country to metal to rap; all with a house, techno and electro groove. Sandler has performed all over the world, on several major Texas radio stations, and has been involved in several studio production projects in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan.
As a promoter, Sandler began producing concert events in the Fall of 1993, and has organized several University-sponsored academic events focusing on the origins of DJing, hip hop and electronic music.
 
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