Gabe Benveniste
CEO, SonicLiving
www.sonicliving.com
Gabe Benveniste founded SonicLiving in order to bring people closer to the events they care about. By bridging social actions across the Internet, SonicLiving fuels discovery, engagement, and transactions amongst fans and their friends. Labels, studios and companies such as Pandora, Live Nation, Universal Music Group, Facebook, Twitter and The Weinstein Company are all a part of the SonicLiving platform.
Prior to SonicLiving, Gabe was at Pixar Animation Studios where he built a particular expertise creating collaborative websites that streamlined the work-flow for many of the acclaimed studio’s critical functions. During his six-year tenure there he also was at the forefront in development of Macintosh OS X maintenance and deployment, a process that was subsequently adopted by firms such Genentech and others.
Gabe has spoken on behalf of Pixar at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and O'Reilly's OS X Conference. Gabe competed in the 2003 World Beard and Mustache Championship, where his prodigious chops propelled him to sixth place (out of six) in the first-ever sideburn contest. His work has been featured in Playboy, MTV and Wired.