Jay Faires

Jay Faires (born 1963) is an entertainment executive. Faires is an investor and board member of MindBodyGreen , the leading platform in digital media for wellness . He is on the Advisory Board for Women at the Frontier created by Susan Fonseca one of the founding architects of Singularity University as well as a crowd funding & crowd building site for TV & film. Jay is also on the Advisory Board for Invisible Children and the board of My Friend's Place for at risk homeless youth in LA. He is an investor in the Renaissance Fund designed to build digital companies around the GIG; the fastest wireless in North America by an avg. of 200x . Faires is also a surfer and yogi.
As Executive Producer
Faires executive produced Live 2012 the Coldplay concert event premier for EPIX with an aggressive marketing strategy, and the Electric Daisy Carnival Experience featuring Will.I.Am, Moby, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and several other artists. Faires has also executive produced with the Beastie Boys the Free Tibet Documentary Film featuring the aforementioned Beasties, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Bjork, & Tribe Called Quest among others .
Music
Previous companies included BNY Music, a publishing company Jay renamed Lionsgate,where he collaborated closely with artists such as Mary J Blige and U2 while overseeing the music for Emmy & Oscar winning hits such as Mad Men, Weeds, & Crash while overseeing as President of Music the doubling in value of their music assets. Prior to selling to Lionsgate, the company was built on the foundation of artist publishing from roster, adding the acquisitions of the blues catalog Black Top along with later copyrights from David Bowie.
Before that he created and built Mammoth Records which sold for 65 times its initial investment, placing numerous acts in the top reaches of MTV’s charts while being the first independent label to have 2 platinum acts. The Squirrel Nut Zippers enjoyed platinum and gold success off their #1 hit "Hell" and prior to that Seven Mary Three had the #1 hit "Cumbersome" from their platinum selling release. The label was built outside the industry centers of Los Angeles, New York and Nashville in Chapel Hill, NC. Building off the early indie success of The Blake Babies and Juliana Hatfield, the company placed Frente near gold sales before launching the success of Seven Mary Three the following year leading to the swing phenomenon the Zippers created as they went on to sell nearly 2 million records worldwide .
During this time, he also funded and owned Hi Frequency, an early lifestyle marketing company instrumental in helping take numerous alternative acts gold & platinum including A Tribe Called Quest.
Album Credits
* Californication: Season 2 (Executive in Charge of Music)
* Precious (Executive in Charge of Music, Soundtrack Executive)
* Weeds: Music From the Series Vol. 4 (Executive in Charge of Music, Soundtrack Executive Producer)
* Mad Men: Music from the Series Vol. 1 (Executive in Charge of Music, Soundtrack Executive Producer)
* Iron Man: Original Motion Picture Album]] (Executive in Charge of Music)
* Crash: Original Motion Picture Album (Executive in Charge of Music)
* Daybreakers: Original Motion Picture Album (Executive in Charge of Music)
* Rambo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Executive in Charge of Music)
* 3:10 to Yuma: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Executive in Charge of Music, Soundtrack Producer)
* Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Executive in Charge of Music)
* MTV’s Best of the Buzz Bin, Vol. 2 (Executive Producer)
* KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic (multiple volumes) (Executive Producer)
* Squirrel Nut Zippers (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
* Jason & the Scorchers (Clear Impetuous Morning) (Executive Producer)
* Juliana Hatfield (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
* Dash Rip Rock (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
* Joe Henry (multiple albums (Executive Producer)
* Blake Babies (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
* Dillon Fence (Executive Producer)
* Vanilla Trainwreck (Executive Producer)
* Kill Creek (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
* Machines of Loving Grace (Executive Producer)
* Antenna (Executive Producer)
* Chainsaw Kittens (multiple albums) (Executive Producer)
Awards
Faires received the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding . He has also been featured in the New York Times and in the Hollywood Reporter's "40 under 40."
Education
Jay Faires received a BA with Honors from The University of the South where he has served on the Board of Trustees and an MBA from Duke where he has repeatedly guest lectured.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu