Partners

Matthew Gould
Partner

Matthew has had a distinguished career in both law and business. After several high level political appointments right out of law school, Matthew went on to establish his own law firm through which he practiced entertainment law for several years. During that time he represented numerous music artists, managers, labels and other related industry persons and entities. Gould also represented several film production companies and served as counsel for several independent film productions.

In the mid 90’s, Gould temporarily moved away from the entertainment scene and created several successful businesses with partner Louis Silberman. These included a highly successful multi-media marketing firm that has sold numerous products through all media including but not limited to television, radio, print and internet, Physicians Skin Institute a medical spa , National Laser Institute a cosmetic laser post secondary trade school, Arveo a multi-media based marketing company that for the past few years represented the Father of Six Sigma and Illuma Studios a state of the art film, video and recording studio.

With the opening of the Illuma Studios, Gould returned to the entertainment field and created The Holistic Television Network which had a year run on the Dish Network. Gould has recently partnered with well known music producer and former White Heart founder and member, Billy Smiley, on the creation of a Devotion Music which is distributed thru Universal Music. Gould also manages several music artists including 12 year old singing sensation, Lea Cappelli.

Billy Smiley
Partner

Billy started as performer/producer for the Bill Gaither organization and produced the 1st 4 Gaither Vocal band albums selling more than 1 million units. Out of that he formed the Grammy nominated Rock Group White Heart with Producer & Session Guitar extraordinaire Dann Huff (Faith Hill & Lonestar producer) & Mark Gersmehl in 1982. White Heart went on to tour worldwide through 1998, selling over 2.5 million records, with 17 #1 Singles*, 2 Grammy nominations, and 23 Dove nominations.

Billy has produced more than 40 albums, and 27 No. 1 songs. He has 5 Grammy Nominations, one producing the 1989 Grammy nominated song "Silent Night", recorded by BeBe & CeCe Winans. As a songwriter he has co-written 22 no. 1 songs, and over 50 top 10 songs.

In addition to White Heart, and as an independent producer for over 15 years while he was with White Heart, he has helped discover, develop, produce, A&R, and write for such artists as: The Newsboys, The Insyderz, White Heart, The Normals, Susan Ashton, Petra, Steven Curtis Chapman, Margaret Becker, Be Be & Ce Ce Winans, Rhonda Gunn, According to John, The Gaither Vocal Band, Rachel Rachel, Justifide, Sky Harbor, and now new artists “Charity Von”, “Kristina”, “Cape First Church”, and “Cambridge”, and “Mark Swayze”.

For the past 3 years Billy has also been developing a new Hymns and Worship project called ‘Worship Hymns” aimed to reach a new generation with the beauty and history of the past in a musical language they understand. He has gathered many worship leaders and songwriters from around the country to Re-write and Re-arrange and Record Hymns “For A New Generation”.

Louis Silberman
Partner

Louis J Silberman is an entrepreneur known for founding and leading Health4her.com, a women's health and beauty retailer. Louis launched Health4her out of his garage in 1998 and it quickly became one of the only profitable online retail health companies and the sixth most visited pharmacy site in the world. Louis later created and marketed Seven Day Smoke Away, an all natural stop smoking product, which became a Success via Internet, Television and DR marketing. Mr Silberman is the Author of Internet Business Dreams (Online marketing book) and "Make It Happen" (motivational DVD helping individuals turn their passions into a business). In 1997 Louis met Matt Gould and the partnership has flourished. Louis has been written up in Entrepreneur Magazine and Fortune Small Business. He lives in Scottsdale Arizona. He has two children.