Jim Markunas

• Editor-In-Chief

  Chicks With Guns Magazine

• Business and Legal Affairs Analyst

  The Walt Disney Company

• Freelance Project Manager

  Killer Cali

• New Media Manager

  Gorgeous PR

• New Media and Publicity Coordinator

  Sabre Entertainment

• New Media Coordinator

  Minty Fresh

• Marketing Intern

  EIU Concert Board

No membership or affiliation information is available.

No certification information is available.

• BA, Integrated Marketing Communications

  Roosevelt University

• N/A, Marketing/General Business

  Eastern Illinois University

“Thinking Beyond The Cube…” it’s more than just a tag-line. For music industry professional, Jim Markunas, it’s a way of life.

An asset to any company, Jim will help ignite your projects; because Jim is an innovator. He is grounded. He stays on budget--a valuable tool for promoting artists in today's market.

A natural promoter, Jim got his start shamelessly promoting local bands at the age of 15.

His passion for music and knack for promotion made him a name on the college music scene, and landed him a gig working with SONOR, LLC on a state-wide advertising campaign for the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Gaining his own local buzz for promoting bands, shock-rock outfit, Skank, recruited Jim to handle their publicity and street marketing. The notoriety of Skank landed Jim an internship with the ADA-distributed Minty Fresh Records.

ternship with the ADA-distributed Minty Fresh Records.
After working New Media for roster artist, The Living Blue, Jim moved to Los Angeles, to get his start in the West-Coast music industry.

While making his mark in L.A., Jim handled personal appearances for music industry veterans Mick Fleetwood and Nicholas Gunn. He also promoted the late James Brown’s last concert appearance.

After the success of Nicholas Gunn’s “Beyond Grand Canyon Tour,” Jim was tapped by Gorgeous PR to head their New Media division.

Helping to create the department from scratch, Jim wasted no time in securing a weekly TV show for Myspace celebrity Metal Sanaz on MusicPlus TV, introducing the band Truckee Brothers to world-wide internet radio, and helping Airplay Direct with their second “All Things Digital” competition.

Having a desire to learn the back-end of the industry, Jim spent a year working in the Music Royalties Department at the The Walt Disney Company. Jim handled royalty accounting for Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records, Lyric Street Records, Miramax Pictures and Mammoth Records. In his time with the company, Jim helped reduce the royalty accrual by $10 million and helped implement several key work-flow processing solutions.

After a collection of great strides you might wonder what else is in store for Jim. Really this is only the beginning for a man who strives to live outside the cube.

Personal Web Links

• Jim Markunas - Official Website