PAUL WHITEHEAD

Paul Whitehead is a highly motivated entertainment industry veteran with extraordinary ties in the financial funds community and corporate sponsorship world.

With over 30 individual million selling productions, including 9 multi-platinum albums, Whitehead is

recognized as a premier producer of high end entertainment (orchestras, superstars, recorded products,

television.) Whitehead’s efforts go beyond the creative content and include raising major capital, organizing sponsorships, managing operations, and conceptualizing the delivery mechanisms, be it on compact disc, DVD, download, mobile, web access, retail distribution, or cable and network television airings. He has extensive experience in creating and repurposing assets into new and unique revenue streams delivering immediate measurable results for Fortune 500 clients. Recognized as a creative problem solver, Whitehead brings over 35 years of practical experience in dramatically heightening results of corporate marketing initiatives utilizing entertainment.

Skill sets: 

Communications > Excellent Writer, Presenter, and Deal Closer

Entertainment Production > In-studio and On-location Expertise - Record and TV

Entertainment Execution > Packaging, Promotional, and Retail Sales Strategies

Finance > Design, Solicitation, Secure Funding, and Manage Monies

Corporate Sponsorships > Design, Placement, and Execute Activation Strategies

Whitehead has been producing original concept, corporate sponsored specialty entertainment programs

since 1971. Sales of over 180 million eight track, LP, cassette, CD, and DVD units include 3 triple-platinum,

6 double-platinum, 21 platinum, and 17 gold albums.  Whitehead has produced multi-platinum recordings in each of the past four decades, worked on records and live television on six continents, and negotiated well over a thousand entertainment agreements.

Career highlights:

 Audio for film and television credits include, works for Columbia Pictures, NBC, Miramax,

Columbia Tri-Star, Disney, ABC, VH-1, Fox, PAX, and PBS.

 The PBS credit includes 1999 Cinema Audio Society’s “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing”

for Ray Charles In Concert live in Miami with Ray’s rhythm section and symphony orchestra.

 The VH-1 credit includes an Emmy nomination for “Best Sound Mixing” of the The One and Only

Aretha Franklin - Divas Live 2001.

 Developed four distinct $100 million revenue streams at Hallmark Cards (2,) Victoria’s Secret, and

Walt Disney

 Produced the Number 3 and 4 best selling classical albums of all time. Of the twenty true classical

albums to achieve platinum status, Whitehead produced nine.

 Conceptualized, produced from scratch, and sold over 15 million units of classical music at

Victoria’s Secret (88-97)

 Conceptualized and delivered the Hallmark Cards Christmas music program undertaken in 1985

and averages 2mm units per year.

 Produced Placido Domingo’s first platinum album (‘86)

 First producer to have platinum record albums with the three premier English orchestras: London

Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and London Philharmonic

 Produced the title track and three additional selections on Kodak’s Atlanta Olympic ‘96 album (1.4

mm sales)

 Two Disney albums (cumulative sales of over 5 mm) remained at the top of Billboard Kids Charts

for over 28 years, the only multi-platinum productions on the Kids Chart in 23 of those years

 Produced the first platinum performance of Tchaikovsky‘s “The Nutcracker” with the Royal

Philharmonic (‘86) and followed with the London Symphony (‘94) triple platinum performance

 Conceptualized and produced Disney’s Mickey Mouse Disco at over 3.6 million sales, largest

children’s (non soundtrack) album of all time

 Sampling of artists with whom Whitehead has produced, recorded and/or filmed and provided

studio services to in the country genre include Willie Nelson, Wynonna, Ray Price, Vince Gill, Asleep

at the Wheel, Merle Haggard, Colin Raye, Michael Martin Murphey, Johnny Paycheck, Cross

Canadian Ragweed, Lonestar, Faron Young, Donna Fargo, and Larry Gatlin among many others.

 Other pop, r&b, and jazz artists with whom Whitehead has worked on records or television of merit

include Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Kid Rock, Tiny Tim, 4 Tops,

Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin, Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Cissy and Whitney Houston, Carla

Thomas, Sam and Dave, Little Richard, Ben E. King.

Clients have included

National Geographic Society

General Motors

Hallmark Cards

Walt Disney

Sony

BMG

Warner Bros

EMI Capitol Records

Bank of America

Merrill Lynch

American Express

Anheuser Busch

House of Seagram

Sydney Frank Importers / Grey Goose Vodka

W. A. Taylor Importers / Drambuie / Courvoisier

Coca Cola Company

HBO

PBS

NBC

Victoria’s Secret