DAVE BERGES

Currently, Dave is Vice President of Operations at Compost Productions with over three decades of experience with all kinds of media as a producer, technician, and performer. He started his career in radio, producing and voicing national commercials and was a disc jockey in the 1970’s. (As a consequence, he still suffers involuntary muscle spasms whenever anyone mentions Barry Manilow!) For more than 25 years, he worked as technical manager/line producer for the ABC Radio Network where he coordinated coverage of breaking news and special events and designed studios and systems used by Tom Snyder, Sam Donaldson, and many others. In 2004, Dave co-produced and edited critically acclaimed music videos for the Spanish pop rock band The Mockers. These videos for the songs The Emperor Strikes Back and Mola Guay, OK are still receiving airplay on MTV in Spain. Along with partner Bill Holmes, Dave has produced short films, industrial narrations, motivational videos, and hundreds of radio commercials for Compost Productions. He designed the technical systems used to produce the feature length film Stump The Band and was the go-to guy for all aspects of post-production on this project. The quality of Dave’s work was recognized with a Best Sound award for Stump The Band from the Microcinema film festival in Chicago. With his rhythm and blues band The Pheromones, he's performed for the past fifteen years at venues throughout Southern California and on the Las Vegas strip and written dozens of songs. His work as a producer, songwriter, drummer, and singer can be heard on the song She’s Gone on the Stump The Band soundtrack.