Jeff Gold

Jeff Gold (born 1956 in San Mateo, California) is an American record label executive who was executive vice president/general manager of Warner Bros. Records from 1995-1998. He had earlier won a Grammy an an art director, and later became a music historian and archivist, and a music memorabilia collector-dealer.
Career
Gold was the first employee of Rhino Records, producing the label's first release, Go To Rhino Records by Wildman Fischer.
In 1981 he joined A&M Records, where, as vice president of marketing and creative services, he worked with The Police, Janet Jackson, Bryan Adams, Soundgarden, Cat Stevens, and Iggy Pop, and art-directed album covers for Suzanne Vega (winning the 1991 "Best Recording Package" Grammy for her Days of Open Hand album), the Neville Brothers, Al Green, and John Hiatt.
In 1990, Gold joined Warner Bros. Records as senior vice president of creative services, working with Seal, R.E.M., and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; art directing album covers for Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Squeeze, and New Order; Gold was instrumental in music distributor decision to sell CDs without the much maligned "longbox", leading to an industry-wide phase-out. Gold was promoted to executive vice president/general manager of Warner Bros. in 1995, and left in 1998 in a management shakeup.
Recent projects
Since leaving Warners, Gold has worked as a music historian and archivist on projects for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and The Experience Music Project. He served as a curatorial consultant to museum exhibitions including American Journey: 1955-1966 and Beatlemania! "Regarded as one of the top five collector-dealers in the world", Gold operates the music memorabilia website Recordmecca and writes about music and memorabilia on Recordmecca's blog.
Gold has worked on archival and reissue projects for artists including Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, and Gram Parsons. and unreleased performances by the Velvet Underground and The Stooges. Gold was a featured appraiser on television show Rock Collectors and was profiled in the books Vinyl Junkies by Brett Milano and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds.
Rock the Vote
Gold formerly served as co-chairman of the youth voter registration organization Rock The Vote, which presented him (and his wife Jody Uttal) its Founder's Award in 1997.
Film and television appearances
Gold appeared in the David Bowie BBC documentary Cracked Actor, the Prince BBC Documentary Prince's Millions, and the Rhino Records documentary Rhino Resurrected.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

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