| Member Since | 2/28/2006 | | Band Website | www.coolplanetentertainment.com | | Band Members | Who are we you ask.......
Todd Arkell | Chief Entertainment Officer
The founder of Cool Planet Entertainment, Todd brings over fifteen years of sales and marketing experience in the corporate world. Armed with a lifelong passion for music and a talent for building relationships, Todd's experience, drive and energy have built an artist-focused company that helps musicians develop their talents while managing for their immediate and long-term success.
Beginning as a small management company focused on Canadian clients, Cool Planet has quickly grown to be an entertainment company that does not recognize borders. Working with artists in Canada and abroad, Todd manages a wide variety needs, including booking tours, event planning, creating PR and marketing campaigns as well as working with music supervisors to secure song placements in hit television shows such as MTV's Laguna Beach, The Hills, Charmed and more.
Recognizing the need to invest in infrastructure to support Cool Planet's meteoric growth, 2007 saw Todd articulate his unique vision and ideas to key industry people, resulting in an astounding evolution of the company. Hand-in-hand with the success of its talented stable of artists, Todd is extremely pleased to announce the creation of a newly formed Cool Planet Entertainment with his highly talented business partners
Cameron Carpenter and Dawn Dwyer.
Cameron Carpenter | VP of Fortune
Cameron Carpenter brings to Cool Planet Entertainment close to thirty years experience in the Canadian music industry. Most recently Cameron was at XM Satellite Radio where he was Director of Canadian Talent Development. He was instrumental in the initial launch of the service in November 2005 and acted as an Ambassador for Canadian music at their U.S. headquarters. Prior to XM Cameron ran the successful Prick Publicity & Management company whose clients included XM Satellite Radio, The Edge, Goldfinger, D.O.A., Tara Slone, Triumph, Down With Webster and a host of others.
Cameron has also held positions at Sony Music Canada (Director, International), BMG Canada (Director of Artist & Media Relations), Universal Music (Director of A&R), Quality Records (Publicity) as well Director Of Marketing for the Hard Rock Cafe chain in Canada. In 1998 and again in 1999 Cameron was awarded "Publicist of the Year" at the prestigious Canada Music Industry Awards. Artists he has worked directly with include: Celine Dion, Stevie Wonder, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, The Foo Fighters, Kenny Chesney, Sloan, The Tragically Hip, Dave Matthews, Motley Crew and literally hundreds of others.
Dawn Dwyer | VP of Fame
A versatile and hands-on communicator, Dawn has more than two decades of marketing, corporate communications, strategic planning and public relations experience and has cultivated and maintained an extensive list of media and business contacts, across several beats and multiple formats. Dawn has held progressively senior positions with entertainment giants World Wrestling Entertainment, Canada Inc., BMG Music Canada and Sony Music Canada over the length of her career. While working at WWE, one of the world's most well known brands, Dawn was instrumental in expanding the company's media coverage in a positive and profound way, securing several significant placements with mainstream media, as well as guiding the Canadian launch of WWE's ECW brand extension. In music, Dawn helped launch and guide the careers of dozens of high profile artists, including Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, Our Lady Peace, N'SYNC, Deborah Cox, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Santana, David Gray and many more.
In addition, Dawn is a featured speaker for Federated Press at their annual Media Relations conferences.
| | Influences | My musical taste is so varied it would be hard to explain. I grew up with my parents listening to Mowtown, Jazz and Blues music...As I entered my teens, I worshipped Heavy Rock...but a strange thing happened when I was 15. I went to a Billy Joel concert on a date (her choice) and man did he put on a show..it changed my one dimensional look at music. This launched my long time passion for music...how freakin' weird that Billy Joel opened my eyes to the entire spectrum of music .
Some Of My All Time Favs..to name a few
AC/DC, KISS, Billy Joel (told you), Queen, Max Webster, early RUSH...nothing much after Farewell To Kings. Van Halen before Sammy, Saga, Triumph..probably the best Canadian band ever, Guess Who, Joe Cocker, Miles Davis, Teenage Head, Goddo, Thelonious Monk, The Who, Joe Jackson, The English Beat, Ray Charles and the Sex Pistols.
What's In My iPOD -
Danielle McKee - Canadian Pop Rocker who is up and coming, Yurko, CherryFix, Say When,Charlie Sexton, Franz Ferdinand, Blink 182, Simple Plan, Green Day, Bowling For Soup, Weezer, Sloan...I love that three chord rock. Three Days Grace, Nickleback, John Mayer, James Blunt, Isle Of Thieves, The Free Press, Gordie Sampson, Diana Krall, Walter Mitty And The Realists, Jay Sparrow, Colin James, Ella Fitzgerald, Eminem and Tupac...the only two rappers I can stomach. They have something to say.
I guess that kinds of defines me...when I think of it. I like artists who have something to say..but I am still a sucker for a hard beat.
| | Record Label | 45 Records - Indie |
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