Brian Witkin

Brian Witkin
Born
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEntrepreneur
Websitewww.brianwitkin.com

Brian Witkin is an entertainment attorney[1] and entrepreneur from Del Mar, California as well as founder and CEO of Pacific Records, an independent record label based in San Diego, California.[2] He is also a founding member of Hawaiian themed group, Slack Key Ohana.[3] In 2005, at the age of 19, Witkin was featured in San Diego Magazine for young people to watch[4] and in Feb. 2015 was named “Kickass Entrepreneur” in the San Diego Union Tribune [5] Witkin is the son of Joe Witkin the original pianist for the band Sha Na Na, and the grandson of Evelyn M. Witkin an American geneticist who was awarded the National Medal of Science by President George W. Bush in 2002 for her work on DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair [6] and the grandson of Herman Witkin, an internationally known American psychologist and senior research scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.[7] Witkin is also the nephew of computer scientist Andrew Witkin

  1. ^ "A Conversation, Questions, and Reviews | San Diego Troubadour". February 2021.
  2. ^ "San Diego Reader: Want to play the Arena?".
  3. ^ "Slack Key Ohana".
  4. ^ "San Diego Magazine: Young People To Watch".
  5. ^ Discover SD Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  6. ^ "National Science Foundation".
  7. ^ "New York Times: Dr. Herman Witkin Pioneered in Studies of Learning Process". The New York Times. 11 July 1979.