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Doug Goldstein (born 1961) is an American veteran in the music industry. Doug has learned that much of one’s success depends on equal parts talent, great management, and building core relationships. From this knowledge and well-developed business acumen, Doug has been blessed to work with and manage the careers of some of the world’s greatest talents, such as the world-wide phenomenon Guns-n-Roses



Career
Guns-n-Roses

From the release of their Guns-n-Roses single to selling over 150 million albums across the globe, Doug led the band through thick and thin touring 40 nations – even selling out the Tokyo Dome an unheard of five times. Other well-known ‘A’ listers Doug has had the honor of working with and managed their careers are Blind Melon, Danzig, Xzibit, Anthrax, and more.

Doug had the aspiration of retiring early in life, so after 17 years, Doug sold Big FD, Inc., in 2004. However, being as active as he is playing golf, skiing, and having a 5th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, Doug found himself not ready for “retirement life.”

Aside from other business ventures, Doug was introduced to various artists and decided to throw his hat back in the ring again to represent the very talented Living Dead Lights who has been signed with an Italian label and soon to be signed with another Japanese label. This caught notice of one of Doug’s close friends who recommended that if Doug was going to manage the careers of talent again, he should consider the extraordinary South Korean talent, YB as a client. Upon hearing their music the first time, Doug knew YB was ready for the next step in growth and world-wide recognition.

At Swagger Network, Doug is currently working as Executive Producer for an internet TV project called "Guitar Star". Contestants will upload videos of themselves playing existing material. The judging will be done based on views, and the judges discretion. Finalists will move in together in Los Angeles, and be asked to play all styles of music.

Now under the roof of When Pigs Fly Entertainment, Doug is once again on a roll with promoting and managing only two hot bands with tremendous potential to reach global success.

Early Career

Doug founded Big FD as a management company. Guns N’ Roses quickly promoted him as their manager, at which time he employed 8 full-time team members as the band began its exponential growth with Doug at the helm. In addition to Guns N’ Roses, he kept a small roster of bands — it was never his intent to have a large roster as it was more important to him to be selective in scouting talent. In addition to Guns N’ Roses’ fame, during the company’s 17-year tenure he nurtured Blind Melon from a start-up band to a multiple platinum-selling artist and, upon taking over management for Xzibit, he was able to generate buzz, visibility, and marketing to increase album sales from 375K of his first record to more than 4.25M copies of his second.

After selling Big FD in 2004, Doug pursued a long-time personal goal of starting up a publishing company. He handled music publishing, having a few artists on the publishing roster. He also had a literary division, which housed five authors and 3 screenwriters. The largest division handled artists whose work he distributed to Art galleries around the world. He had wood sculpters, Bronze artists, painters, all mediums of gallery quality artists.

Education
Doug attended Northern Arizona University from 1980-1983. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Marketing/Management and a minor in Accounting.