Kevin Stein

Kevin Stein brings to his work a history of successful business development and content production in advent technology, digital media, and traditional entertainment with specialization in web3, augmented reality, social analytics, and neuromarketing as well as documentary film. 

Previously, Stein served as SVP of Social Business at Strategic Partners, GM at DMI Media and Marketing Solutions, and CSO for Buzztone, a digital and experiential marketing firm with clients including AARP, BP, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson, Bacardi, Subway, The Gap, and Starz.

His entertainment background includes network, cable, and syndicated television and film as a producer for Paramount, Columbia Pictures, and VH1, along with senior management experience at HBO as VP, Original Programs, CBS as Director of Late Night Programs and Interim VP, Specials, (where he supervised “The Country Music Awards”) and VP of Development, King World Productions, where he was a member of the team that launched “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and a series co-production with Motown.

Stein Company consulting clients have included Disney, Dreamworks, Saatchi & Saatchi, Wavefront Technologies, Hollywood Records, AOL, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Music, Time, and Microsoft. He authored a classic history of rock and roll for Rolling Stone Press/Dell Publishing, and his numerous music documentary and feature productions include work for HBO (“When The Music’s Over”), Warner Bros. (Woodstock 25th Anniversary), MTV, VH1, The Who (“The Kids Are Alright”), PBS, the Jimi Hendrix Estate (“Jimi Plays Monterey”), NBC Sports, CBS News (“Music, Madness and The Sixties”), Public Radio International, the Frank Zappa Family Trust, and Columbia Pictures, where he produced “Rock and Roll: The Early Years” and “The British Invasion.” He also cleared rights on “Monterey Pop” and “Don’t Look Back” for D.A. Pennebaker, and Bob Dylan.

His non-profit work includes helping to launch NASA's Challenger Center For Space Science Education and co-founding the Jimi Hendrix Foundation, which he ran for its initial two years, as well as co-founding The Bridge Program at Antioch University, which for over two decades has furnished a tuition-free college education in the humanities to marginalized adults living in Los Angeles. He also continues to serve as a marketing consultant to the Les Paul Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to music education.