The Twin Towers Management team is owned and operated by Lazaro “Laz” Ruiz and Mario “Rio” Ruiz, twin brothers born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents. Influenced by their musical heritage, the two young boys were involved in many music ventures, including bands. As they grew older, the Ruiz twins would switch their concentration from performing music to marketing, promotions and event planning for themselves and other bands. After establishing relationships with venues, promoters, producers, artist, and songwriters, they began working and assisting Blake Jones while he was at Chubby Greens Entertainment in the marketing and promotion department. From there, they started promoting events and hosting with Mike B from BMB Events and Fire and Ice and Nightlife Entertainment. Soon after, they were hired by producer/songwriter Blake Jones of Igknyteable and Essom Jweinat of Mohip Production. Twin Towers Management is also affiliated with Step It Up Entertainment. In 2007, they opened Twin Towers Management Publishing with the mission to give the San Francisco Bay Area a viable entertainment entity by developing, educating, and exploiting undiscovered talent. Once Twin Towers Management Publishing began, Laz decided to attend San Francisco State University’s Music Recording Industry (MRI) program. This program allowed Laz to be guided by industry professionals such as; Gian Fiero, a consultant who is best known for writing commercial music reviews and producing the renowned Muse’s Muse Awards; Larry Batiste, songwriter and board member of the Grammy’s; Kerry Fiero, owner of Strive Management and director of NARIP; and Marc Greenberg, an entertainment attorney who has had, among many others, clients such as 2Pac and AeroSmith. The company has also recruited amazing talent such as Kristin Ray who joined Twin Towers Management in 2007 as the Executive Administrative Assistant and Event Planning Manager. Rio bring his financial and consulting expertise from a heavy Real Estate and Credit Consulting business In which he was the investment consultant and Branch Manager at California Credit Solutions. Kristin has many years of organizational, administrative and entertainment event planning experience along with extensive knowledge in writing professional business plans, copywriting, and publishing. She attended the University of Hawaii to pursue her Bachelor’s of Science in Sociology. While continuing to expand her knowledge and skill set, Kristin most recently completed a certification program from San Francisco’s Women’s Initiative in January 2008. In 2008, Twin Towers Management went into partnership to start up The Beat Doctors, which is a music hub for established and up incoming Beat Makers and Producers to exploit their catalogs. Now it’s 2011 and Twin Towers Mgmt and Blakr Joneshave opened up a multimedia company name Junxtion 360 Multimedia which provides artist a "One Stop Shop" to AMP careers.


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