HeadCount Board Members Doing Lunch With Supporters
By Andy Kahn Nov 19, 2015 • 8:45 am PST

Have you ever wanted to sit down and break bread with musicians such as Bob Weir and Marc Brownstein or impresario Peter Shapiro or our co- founder Andy Gadiel? All four are among members of the board of directors of the non- profit voter registration organization HeadCount, and they’ll be sitting down for private lunches with supporters of the cause.
HeadCount board members are participating in the CharityBuzz.com “Executive Lunch” series, which lets anyone bid on having lunch with a top leader in business or – in this case – politics and music. Andrew Dreskin (founder of the ticketing service Ticketfly), former White House aide and current VICE Media COO Alyssa Mastromonaco, SiriusXM DJ and Warren Haynes manager Stef Scamardo, Bonnaroo co-founder Rich Goodstone CAKE frontman John McCrea are among the others taking part in the series. Head to Headcount.org/lunch for more information or to place a bid.
The bidding runs through December 2nd and starts at just $200 for each auction. “HeadCount is lucky to have a board filled with successful people from all walks of life, be it music, or finance, or politics” said HeadCount Executive Director Andy Bernstein. “Every time I meet with our board I am blown away at their knowledge, insight and most of all, their warmth. We felt like this would be a great opportunity to share their expertise with the world, and raise a little dough.”
Below is the complete list of HeadCount’s board members participating in the lunch series:
- Peter Bahouth – Stereoscopic Photographer, Environmentalist
- Diane Blagman – Senior Director of Governmental Affairs, Greenberg Traurig
- Nicole Boxer – Emmy Award Winning Documentarian
- Marc Brownstein – Bassist, The Disco Biscuits
- Andrew Dreskin – Co-Founder of Ticketfly
- Andy Gadiel – JamBase.com Co-Founder
- Rich Goodstone – Co-Founder of Superfly Presents and Bonnaroo
- Gordon H. Hensley – DC-Based Communications Strategist
- Patrick Jordan – Day-to-Day Manager of Phish and Dave Matthews Band
- Ben Levin – Manager of Wilco and Lucius
- Jonathan Levine – Head of Nashville Office, Paradigm Agency
- David Margulies – Co-Producer of High Sierra Festival
- Alyssa Mastromonaco – COO of VICE Media
- John McCrea – Founding member of CAKE
- Nadia Prescher – Co-Founder of Madison House
- Peter Rouse – Perkins Coie LLP, former White House Chief-of-Staff
- Stef Scamardo – DJ at SiriusXM JamOn, Manager of Warren Haynes, The Revivalists
- Jonathan Schwartz – DJ at SiriusXM JamOn
- Peter Shapiro – Independent Music and Film Entrepreneur
- Steve Simon – Simon Equity Partners
- Ami Spishock – Manager of Grizzly Bear, The War on Drugs and Beirut
- Don Strasburg – VP & Senior Talent Buyer for AEG Rocky Mountains
- Jessy Tolkan – Director, Campaign for Global Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
- Bob Weir – Guitarist, Grateful Dead/RatDog/Dead & Company
- Stephen Yalof – CEO of Simon Premium Outlets
The funds raised from these lunches will go toward HeadCount’s 2016 voter registration campaign, spanning over 1,000 live music events next year.