Jay Robert Boberg was born on in 1958 and is an American music, entertainment and viticulture executive.
13 Facts About Jay Boberg
Jay Boberg is the founder of the entertainment company Liberation Entertainment and is chairman of the Isolation Entertainment board of directors.
Jay Boberg is a fourth-generation Californian, born in San Francisco to Richard and Shirley Jay Boberg.
Jay Boberg attended Miraleste High School in Rancho Palos Verdes, graduating in 1976 and was an avid classical guitar musician starting at age 7.
Always listening to and creating music, Jay Boberg played guitar in local bands in his youth but he soon embarked into the business side of music, producing two major talent concerts at Miraleste High School: one with seminal surf band, HONK, and another with '70s folk artists Kenny Rankin and Tim Weisberg.
Records to EMI, and Jay Boberg headed off to Cambridge, Mass.
Late in 1993 Jay Boberg was named president of MCA Music Publishing, overseeing all music publishing operations worldwide.
In late 1995, Jay Boberg was named President of MCA Records.
Records, Boberg had success with releases by artists Sublime, Mary J Blige, Blink-182, Live, The Roots, New Radicals and others.
In 2010 Jay Boberg joined the board of Isolation Network, an independent digital music distributor.
Jay Boberg continued as chairman of the INgrooves board until overseeing the sale of the company to Universal Music Group in March 2019.
Jay Boberg started by buying a Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard in California's Napa Valley in 1989 while running his label businesses.
Jay Boberg married Alison Cooper in 1989, and they have two children, Sebastian in 1992 and Juliette in 1994.