14 Facts About Lenny Beer

Lenny Beer is an American media executive and artist manager.

Lenny Beer is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of HITS Magazine, a co-founder and principal of the MGMT Company, and a theater producer and investor.

Lenny Beer's father, Morton, was a wholesale textiler and his mother Gloria a homemaker.

Lenny Beer grew up in the New York City suburbs of Kew Gardens, New Hyde Park and Great Neck.

Lenny Beer graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BA in business in 1971, and was awarded an MBA from New York University in 1973.

Lenny Beer was promoted to vice president at Record World before leaving in 1978 to accept a position as vice president of promotion at 20th Century Fox Records.

In late 1978, Lenny Beer partnered with Dennis Lavinthal, a record executive, to form MusicVision, an independent promotion and marketing company.

Lenny Beer co-founded the music industry trade magazine Hits in August 1986 as an irreverent alternative to Billboard.

Lenny Beer has served as editor-in-chief of Hits since its inception.

Lenny Beer co-founded The MGMT Company with Lavinthal in 2008.

Lenny Beer served as a producer on the 2015 Broadway musical based on the 1992 film Honeymoon in Vegas.

From 2003 until 2016, Lenny Beer was an instructor for the UCLA Extension course, The Music Business Now: How It Really Works.

Lenny Beer has been a guest speaker at USC and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU and served as a member of the Grammy screening committee for six years.

Lenny Beer was featured in a Frontline documentary on PBS titled The Way the Music Died.