User:Stephen Zelenka

Stephen Zelenka has over 30 years of extensive experience in, artist management, marketing, music publishing, music supervision,placement for television and film, and executive management.

Mr. Zelenka has worked directly with such artists as The Who, Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis, Bob Marley & many others. He has been appointed to the Anglo American Arena Association. A body that was put together to implement American style entertainment facilities in the United Kingdom. He has been hired as a consultant and or designer for such centers as Sun City in South Africa, The Osaka Dome in Japan, and The Dockland Arena in London. His responsibilities included working closely with the building architects and developers to insure that the facility design can be flexible and accommodate the staging of a variety of different entertainment events.

Stephen has designed and supervised the installation of media systems for The Universal, Pacific Amphitheater, Greek Theatre, Wiltern Theatre and Anaheim Stadium in Los Angeles. Other facilities included Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater CO, Camden Yards, MD and Shark Arena San Jose, CA.

Zelenka was chief audio engineer and head of production for The Pope’s visit to Los Angeles, music consultant and designer to the 1992 Olympic Committee in Barcelona, and consultant to Roger Water’s The Wall in Berlin. With partner Joseph Finneran, media/ event and technical producers for The Los Angeles 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, Boston and John Kerry Campaign. He has also supervised large-scale productions such as Tommy at The Queen’s Theatre in London, and design and installation of The Miami Vice, ET, Back To The Future and Backdraft themed rides at Universal Studios.

During the past twenty years Stephen Zelenka managed Eel Pie Productions in London a company owned by the Who’s Pete Townshend. Zelenka later became Director of West Coast Operations for MSI / Britannia Row one of the world’s largest contractors for events. Zelenka’s clients included, The National Democratic Committee Roland Corporation, the NFL, NBC, ABC, Dick Clark Productions, IBM, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and many others. Stephen served with partner Joseph Finneran as the executive creative director of the Universal Studios City Walk Hollywood Expansion project 2000 His team was also responsible for establishing the permanent content pipeline to acquire video and audio media from all labels within the Universal Music Group, as well as integrate with Universal Pictures for the promotion marketing of movie premiere at Universal. His company continues to provide on-going creative direction with music and video programming; ongoing media content management and consultation.

Not content to rest on his laurels, Steve was music supervisor on the feature films “Keys To Tulsa” with James Spader and Eric Stoltz, and “Flypaper” with Robert Logia. The television shows he’s supervised and helped manufacture and distribute soundtracks for “Route 66” (CBS), “Moon Over Miami” (ABC), “The National In Line Skate Board Series” (FOX) and “L.A. Firefighters” (FOX)

Platform Music a copyright administration and publishing company was formed specifically with partner Gregg Brock to cater for the publishing requirements of clients Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Brian Auger, and producers Bill Laswell & Michael Bienhorn (Hole, Marilyn Manson, Ozzie Osbourne). The company was the first to use and beta-test the M2 royalty tracking software, which is now used by BMG, Warner’s and Universal. Steve has also been very active helping his artists set up new business ventures such as Hancock Records through Universal and Bill Laswell’s Black Arc Records through Ryko. The company’s catalogue of music has been placed in many TV and Film productions.

In September 2006 Zelenka was brought aboard as joint CEO of U.K. media company Coherent Media and its joint venture with Big Café of China. Big Café is the largest premium Internet café network in China; with an estate of 1,000 cafes BC receives a daily footfall of around 700,000 people. An aggressive expansion over the next year will provide access to 7,500 cafes by April ‘09, giving an average of 5 Million visitors every day.

Coherent Media and its joint venture with Big Café formed Big Café Media in October of ’07. Big Café Media is a fully functional media house that has a technology division, in house media sales and TV production and programming. As well as running operations for its Shanghai operations Zelenka was also responsible for heading content acquisitions and overseeing production and installation of its digital TV channel across the Big Café estate. Big Café TV, has its own unique branded programming, that includes music, fashion, extreme sports, entertainment news & sports segments, as well as the LCD TV network, the cafes are linked together as a community with a web portal, PC advertising, posters, consumer events, merchandising, sponsorship, product placement direct and email marketing, mobile marketing, competitions, promotions, and sophisticated bespoke consumer research programmes.

Currently Zelenka serves as creative director / consultant to Universal Studios, as well as CEO of Arcspirit & Bluestar / Sirius, Sirius is the Pan Asian partner of Bluestar international Bluestar / Sirius is a marketing and sponsorship agency, in the field of television, moving pictures and sports specializing in sponsorship for venues, events, teams and celebrities, TV & radio networks as well as the production and distribution of content. The company also specializes building its own brand events and as well as investment brokerage.

Zelenka together with his Platform TV & Film Music entity has also just reformed his artist management company, which just signed its first client recently, Matt Grant star of ABC TV’s hit series the “Bachelor”