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BOARD OF ADVISORS:
Ariel Beery
Michael Dorf
Bob Goldfarb
Justin Korda
Rina Mizrahi-Varon
Matisyahu
Brice Rosenbloom
Gilat Weiman
Daniel Weinstock
Shemspeed’s STAFF might be cooler than you. check it out.
Erez Safar | Founder & CEO
@Diwon
 Erez Safar is the founder, director, and mastermind of Shemspeed, its sister label Modular Moods, and the producer of the wildly successful and annual Sephardic Music Festival. Safar began as a radio personality at WMUC (Maryland’s campus radio station) in 2003, alongside popular music insider Peter Rosenberg. Soon after, Erez created Modular Moods and his first signed artist debuted on the Top 40 CMJ Music Charts. He has since performed across the globe, negotiated deals with Warner Brothers and Sony, and continues to sign the most dynamic and emerging Jewish artists to Shemspeed Records. Safar has been selected by The Forward as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Jews and has been featured in countless publications and TV programs including the New York Times, CBS and BBC World News. His entrepreneurial venture has evolved into Shemspeed, a music production group that promotes Jewish identity, diversity and Israel involvement through recordings and dynamic programming. Shemspeed artists have performed with artists as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Through the arts and education, Safar aims to bring people together to celebrate both diversity and common ground.
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Nina Safar | Director of Operations
@NinaSafar
 Nina Safar is Shemspeed’s event programmer extraordinaire. She has seen the company rise from an tastemaker/hipster blog site to the multifaceted global label that it is today. Safar is one of the founders of our “40 Days 40 Nights” tour – an interactive, live music festival stopping at 30 colleges nationwide, exposing college students to the breadth and depth of Jewish music through educational workshops during the day and concerts and parties at night. Safar plays hostess at a slew of our clubbed out events. When not crazed with the clubs, Nina devotes her time to Shemspeed Tikkun by running “Project one C” which produces inter-faith, inter-generational, and inter-racial events and concerts to bring communities together by promoting dialogue and co-existence through the arts. You might find Nina satisfying her and others’ foodie cravings via her wildly successful Kosher food site, Kosher in the Kitch (kosherinthekitch.com).
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Yishai Mizrahi-Varon | Assoc. Marketing Director/A&R
@MizrahiVaron
 Yishai joined Shemspeed in 2008 as an intern and quickly began working his magic on the marketing and promotions front, getting the Kosha Dillz/C-Rayz Walz release Freestyles Vs. Written in over 100 blogs and websites in just over two months time. A graduate from Baruch College, Yishai left with a degree in Advertising and Marketing Communications and became Assoc. Marketing Director/A&R for Shemspeed during the summer of 2010. He was a participant in the 2010 PresenTense Global Fellowship for Jewish social entrepreneurs in Jerusalem, and was integral in the establishment of the Shemspeed Foundation, Shemspeed’s not-for-profit arm. Yishai’s pulse on current trends and ear for music ensure that the tracks Shemspeed produces not only provide bold boundary-defying Jewish content, but also hold the crossover potential to make it big on popular radio and MTV.
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Brossard Wellington | CFO
@_Brossard
Brossard Wellington is a venture capitalist, stock broker, Pres. of Gentleman’s Row, and lover of 50′s war art. Wellington was one of the first to adapt ‘clean & green’ into the music industry, he started his own green corp which focused on venture investments in various technology sectors, most notably clean technology. Born in Quebec, Wellington, at the age of 15, purchased three shares of Cities Service Preferred at $38 per share. Shortly after buying the stock, it fell to just over $27 per share. A frightened but resilient Wellington held his shares until they rebounded to $40 and soon after shot up to $200. The experience taught him one of the basic lessons of investing: patience is a virtue.…Tabarnak
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Aubrey Sherman | Research & Development Asst.
 Aubrey has always been involved with music – from writing and recording to promoting local bands in her native New Jersey. She became an instant fan of Shemspeed’s blend of music and social activism. Currently studying Communication at Rutgers University, Aubrey draws on her background in journalism, promotion and public relations to get Shemspeed’s unifying message out to the world. Aubrey loves working with Shemspeed’s diverse artists who are using their talents to bring positive change. Viva la revolution!
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Ben Chaidell | Associate Public Relations Coordinator
 Ben Chaidell brings to Shemspeed a keen eye for the written word and a passion for the revolution in Jewish music that Shemspeed is leading. With his experience in public relations and media affairs, Ben highlights the exciting work of Shemspeed artists. He especially admires the social consciousness of the label and its efforts to bring different groups together through the arts. Ben graduated from Yale in 2011 with a degree in religious studies and currently works as an Education Fellow at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi. He looks forward to building a Shemspeed fan base in the South!
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Guy Emanuel | Shemspeed Daily Contributor
 Guy Emanuel, the foremost ethnomusicologist in Belize, has been a huge fan of Modular Moods for decades, in fact he was the person responsible for resurecting the Juez opus from near sonic extinction. Years later Guy found Elsewhere, John Cusack and K. Ross inside a huge loft in the city of Belmopan. Emanuel was never able to make it inside, but with the help of his trusty pair of gold-plated binoculars (passed down to him by his mentor, the late Dr. Reggie Quartz), he saw through a window that the loft was empty, save the two DJs and Cusack. With a Solaris microphone and a styrofoam cup to the door, Guy recorded and released “Play Anything” which became one of the most influental genre defeying mixtapes of the past century. Following his love of diversity and discovery, Guy took on the important role of Shemspeed’s sonic scribe.
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Ben Mogerman | Intern
@bmogerman
 Ben is a Psychology student at Drake University. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a self-employed musician and plays with several groups in the Des Moines area. Ben first discovered Shemspeed in high school and instantly became obsessed. He is excited to actively help the hippest, most diverse Jewish organization around and can’t wait to spread the word about Shemspeed with all that it has to offer.”
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 Laura is a third year student at Drake University, studying International Relations and Public Relations. Laura has lived all over the Midwest, and currently resides in Michigan. Besides her love for boots she has a love for the culture and music of Shemspeed and is excited to bring her Public Relations skills to the Shemspeed team as a new intern this fall.
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Jason Bernstein | Intern
@Jay_Berns
 Jason is a third year student at the University of Florida, studying Sport Management and Business. He currently works for the University of Florida Hillel and shares a deep passion for hip-hop culture with Shemspeed, where he became an intern this Summer. Originally from Plantation, Florida, Jason has a knack for developing marketing initiatives and throwing bangin’ parties.
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Daniel Azneer | Intern
@Dazneer
 Daniel Azneer is a second year Sociology student at the University of Florida. Daniel is from Tampa, Florida and is involved heavily in the music scene at the university. He loves the chutzpah Shemspeed is bringing to the music scene. He joined Shemspeed this summer as an Intern and is excited to spread positive vibes and jams..
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