Industry
Phil Sandhaus
Owner/Principal
Membrain LLC
Twenty five+ years of expertise in marketing and developing influential and successful artists, including The Beatles, Billy Joel, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Garth Brooks, and Frank Sinatra, through both traditional and groundbreaking non-traditional initiatives.
Prior management positions include Head of Strategic Marketing and Product Development for the $250 million dollar a year EMI-Capitol Group Entertainment Properties Division, overseeing projects such as The Beatles Anthology, Executive Producer - The Beatles' "The Making of Sgt. Pepper" educational initiative, including a televised program distributed by Channel One's Classroom Channel to over 8 million students in 12,000 middle and high schools across the U.S., The Beach Boys Pet Sounds Box Set which he executive produced, and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy release, amongst others, as well as senior marketing and artist development positions at Capitol Records and Columbia Records.
Creative Manager for David Bowie, handling all creative affairs for music, film and theatre, worldwide including The Glass Spider Tour and the Rykodisc catalog reissues.
Sandhaus owned and operated an artist management consultant (clients included Elvis Costello and Taylor Dayne), film production and soundtrack company.
He served as Executive Producer of "M. Butterfly", the feature film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, produced by The Geffen Company/Warner Bros. Pictures; and Executive Vice President, Tribeca Music, Robert De Niro's soundtrack label distributed by Sony Music, whose feature films soundtracks included, "A Bronx Tale" and "Amongst Friends" both of which he executive produced.
Sandhaus was General Manager of independent record label Beyond Music overseeing the Motley Crue Catalog reissues and the platinum selling Lucy Pearl release.
He most recently worked with Moir/Borman Entertainment as senior consultant on the worldwide album management of The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks CD release initiating strategic partnerships with the FOX Broadcasting Company, The Simpsons, and the NBA.
He is currently Executive Producer of an animated musical film version of L. Frank Baum's (The Wizard of Oz), A Patchwork Girl, with music by Mick Jones (The Clash) and lyrics by Robert Hunter (The Grateful Dead) and a Producer of an Eartha Kitt biopic.
He is currently a Managing Partner in Membrain, a strategic marketing and business/concept development company that services corporate and entertainment brands and creates revenue-generating opportunities.
Sandhaus serves on the Board of Directors of Tim Robbins' theatre company, The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles.
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