Rockstar Team & Advisors
Brian A. Smith
Brian A. Smith is the Co-Founder and CEO of RedCrow™ Inc. direct investment and marketing platform presenting professionally vetted investment opportunities in innovative healthcare startups to an accredited crowd of investors. Backing a vision with social impact is at the heart of RedCrow™ investing.
Prior to RedCrow™ Brian was a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, advising high net worth families. During that time he and his wife experienced the tragic loss of their first child just after birth. It was at that pivotal moment when Brian decided to channel his investment career into meaningful work helping other families who experience complicated pregnancies. Brian left Morgan Stanley and adopted an active role in MindChild Medical, a pioneer in the development of non-invasive fetal heart monitoring. This experience and the writing of the 2012 JOBS Act had Brian began to envision a day when crowdfunding would evolve into an equity based model vs donation based . So in 2015, alongside Jerry Harrison, Brian founded RedCrow™ with a mission to democratize the investment process for people otherwise shut out of early-stage investing opportunities. He resides in Mill Valley, CA with his wife and two daughters.
Aishlin Harrison
Aishlin Harrison is musician, visual artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco. As the Creative Director and Chief of Staff of RedCrow she oversees all of RedCrow’s media and production assets.
Aishlin graduated from NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2011 where she studied audio engineering and production as well as music business and marketing.
Adam LaRue - Advisor
Adam LaRue - A 23-year veteran of the music industry who has marketed the global album launches of Rancid, Mavis Staples, Glen Hansard, Dr. Dog, Plain White T's, At The Drive-in, Sugarcult, Portugal The Man, Parkway Drive, and Bring Me The Horizon, among many others while at prominent labels Epitaph, Anti-, and Fearless Records. As head of marketing at the southern California indie labels, Adam was responsible for the Publicity, digital, Video, advertising, tour marketing, street level marketing efforts and radio campaigns for the aforementioned artists. As a result of his hard work Adam has been awarded platinum and gold records for Plain White T's, and Tom Waits.
While at IndieClick Media Group/Demand Media, Adam has consulted major, and indie record labels with the marketing development and online advertising strategy for artists such as Eminem, Blink 182, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, and Neon Trees, major music festivals The Vans Warped Tour, and Rockstar Mayhem Fest, , book publishers such as Random House, and Harper Collins, and popular consumer brands Vans, and Beats By Dre.
Currently, Adam’s management firm, LaRue Artists, currently represents artists Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads and Modern Lovers, The Homeless Gospel Choir, and Dregg.
Furthermore, he’s an adjunct professor at UCLA and the LA College of Music. He has been a featured speaker in the areas of artist development at distinguished artist level conferences such as CMJ, SXSW, and Music Biz.
Kevin Martin - Advisor
Kevin Martin is an American hard rock singer who is best known as lead vocalist of the band Candlebox. He also provides lead vocals for the bands The Gracious Few and The Hiwatts.
Jerry Harrison
Jerry Harrison is the Co-Founder and Chairman of RedCrow™ Inc. a direct investment platform presenting professionally vetted investment opportunities in innovative healthcare startups to an accredited crowd of investors. Jerry is also a Co-Founder of Orphirex, Inc. a pioneer in the treatment of snakebites. Prior to RedCrow, Jerry was a Co-Founder of Garage Band, a record label which was a pioneer in using crowd-sourcing and the internet in general to identify promising artists to be signed and then released. Garageband became iLike and was sold to Myspace in 2009. Jerry has served on the Board of Directors for a number of other companies including MicroUnity, IODA and Carbon Gold.
Admired for his work as a musician Jerry performed as the keyboard player for The Modern Lovers. Their album recorded in 1972 but released in 1976 was an inspiration to the burgeoning punk rock movement. Also, In 1976, while a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Jerry met David Byrne, Chris Franz, and Tina Weymouth and left school to join the Talking Heads in January 1977, with whom he remained until the band’s break up in 1991. In 2002, The Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Jerry has also released several solo albums as well as worked as an active music producer for some of rock and roll’s best-known bands including Live, The Fine Young Cannibals, Violent Femmes, Bodeans, Crash Test Dummies, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Verb Pipe and the Von Bondies. A father of three children, he resides in Marin County, California with his wife of 31 years.
Mike Walsh - Advisor
Mike has designed robots and missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was an early angel investor in Salesforce.com in 1999. After a decade of software sales and sales management, Mike successfully founded and sold one of the earliest enterprise social networking companies, while attending business school at Haas and Columbia University.
Following the sale of Leverage, Mike focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber in 2010. Leveraging his early investment success and love for helping early stage companies, Mike launched Structure Capital in June of 2013, which has invested in more than 100 companies since inception.
Jessica Smith - Advisor
Jessica Smith has spent the past several decades forging her career in commercial real estate working with the RMR Group, Westcore Properties, and most recently, Westlake Realty Group, a Silicon Valley based family office and its affiliate companies. She currently serves as COO and is responsible for executing and contributing to the successful financial and organizational health of the companies that she oversees. Jessica has held key senior managerial positions in the Boston, Seattle and San Francisco markets and has been a thoughtful supporter and mentor of female advancement in executive leadership roles.
Jessica resides in Mill Valley, CA with her husband, Brian, and daughters, Taylor and Olivia. In her spare time she enjoys working on her creative writing projects and spending time with her family.
Bradford C. Auerbach - Advisor
Brad is a seasoned attorney with extensive and unique global expertise in business development, marketing, sales, Intellectual Property law and licensing. He is currently Partner at the law firm Outside GC. Previously, he handled Hewlett-Packard’s global media licensing agreements. Brad has successfully structured groundbreaking agreements with global companies as diverse as NFL, NBA, NHL, HBO, ESPN, Live Nation, Apple, Marvel Entertainment, International Olympic Committee, every Hollywood studio, each record label and a variety of technology companies.
He has held senior legal counsel positions at Qualcomm, Philips Media (Philips Electronics, Netherlands), Astro/ MEASAT (Malaysia), Starz/Encore, and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
Brad has published and/or presented at dozens of entertainment forums worldwide and helped form the Digital Entertainment Group (which drove the adoption of DVD).
Brad teaches at University of California San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy, and at Berklee College of Music. As an expert in merchandising, he represents George Clinton (Parliament | Funkadelic) as well as the estates of Frank Zappa and Keith Moon.
Brad holds a patent with Qualcomm relating to mobile phone media technology. He is a graduate of Hamilton College, holds a JD from Boston College, and is a member of the California Bar Association. Brad lives in Solana Beach, CA with his wife and two daughters.