b, US
Rock and Pop
American attorney, label executive, manager and musician. Passed away 2012 in age of 58. Mintz began his career in 1986 at Ziffren Brittenham, LLP, where he worked with Nirvana, Sheryl Crow, Aerosmith, Poison, Jane's Addiction and others, and was the tour attorney for Michael Jackson's Bad tour. In 1992, he went to Sony Music, where he was West Coast GM for Epic Records and SVP of A&R for Columbia. Mintz was with Sony until the end of 1996, then spent six years as a Senior Partner at Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, where he worked with Van Halen, Motley Crue, and The Black Crowes, Marcy Playground and others. Over the following years, he started his own management company -- working extensively with Herbie Hancock, co-producing his Grammy-nominated Possibilities -- and then spent two years as the head of A&R in the entertainment division of Starbucks. From 2008 through 2010, he worked as a manager and producer at Red Light Entertainment, continuing his work with Herbie Hancock as well as Carly Simon.