WAR: The Afterparty

Brian Gruber has been creating, innovating and marketing new forms of media for thirty years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he earned a B.A. from Queens College and an M.A. from Pepperdine University studying interactive media and broadcast management. Gruber was the first head of marketing for the C-SPAN public affairs network, where he hosted two weekly live call-in shows with politically prominent guests, and for FOXTEL, Australia’s leading national cable television system. He was the founder of FORA.tv, which brought premiere public forums to the web, and ShowGo.tv, a project streaming hundreds of live concerts from elite music clubs around the world. Gruber has served as media consultant to several dozen global clients from San Francisco’s World Affairs Council to the European Journalism Centre. He is the author of one novel, "Dauphin, Dorian and Dead" and "Six Days at Ronnie Scott's: Billy Cobham on Jazz Fusion and the Act of Creation." The father of two daughters, Jennie and Andrea, Gruber currently resides in Southeast Asia, where he completed his trip around the world for the Afterparty project.