NEW YORK, USA // Jason Menkes (Partner/Executive Producer) is a respected creative music producer who brings an unusually thoughtful approach dedicated to the strategy, creation and implementation of music for branding and advertising campaigns.

In 2009 Menkes became East Coast Chapter President for the Association of Music Producers (AMP) and the year prior was named the youngest member to the AMP National Executive Board. Menkes was also an Assistant Professor of Music Business at New York University, where he taught about the commercial music industry and the changing dynamic between bands and brands.

During the five years prior to launching COPILOT, Menkes advanced to Executive Producer at Sacred Noise, overseeing creative production on prestigious national advertising campaigns such as Coca-Cola, GE, L’Oreal, BMW Mini, Disney, Cadillac, Bluefly, HomeGoods, Burger King, ESPN, and Johnson & Johnson. Previously, he rose over two years to Executive Producer over two years for both the New York and Los Angeles offices of tomandandy, working on Canon, Target, and Diet Coke, as well as fashion shows, original art installations and the film scores to The Rules of Attraction and The Mothman Prophecies.

In the music departments of blue-chip advertising agencies Grey Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi, and BBDO, he added breadth to his career managing original musical composition, production, and strategic music licensing agreements for clients as varied as Oil of Olay, General Mills, Bank of America, and Chrysler.

Menkes has a Master’s degree in Music Business from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from The University of Rochester.

A musician in his own right, he has studied voice, percussion, piano, musicology, theory and composition, and maintains a collection of unusual instruments from his travels abroad.