Steve Gottlieb

Steve Gottlieb is an American entrepreneur, music industry pioneer, and new media executive. He is founder and CEO of Shindig, a platform for large scale online video chat events. Prior to Shindig, Gottlieb founded the independent record label TVT Records and its publishing arm TVT Music, discovered the recording artists Nine Inch Nails, Pitbull, Sevendust, and Ja Rule, produced the "Television's Greatest Hits" series, helped to found the independent music organization A2IM, and served on the boards of Musicmatch (sold to Yahoo! in 2008), Napster, and Tune Up Media.

Gottlieb was born in 1957 in New Rochelle, New York.

Gottlieb graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1980 with a B.A. in comparative literature. In 1984, he earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Gottlieb was selected in 1996 as one of the "40 Under Forty", a listing of leading New York executives, by Crain's New York Business. In 2001, he was featured in a commercial for Credit Suisse during the Super Bowl, where he was cited as a successful and visionary media/technology entrepreneur. Later in the year, he appeared as a witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled "Online Entertainment And Copyright Law: Coming Soon To A Digital Device Near You".

In 2005, he was named to the Hip Hop Power 30 by The Source magazine. In the same year, he delivered the keynote address at the In The City Urban Music Summit, which is the UK's top international music convention and Europe's largest city-based music festival.

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