The author is the president of Classical California. He is former president and CEO of Lakeshore Public Media in Merrillville, Ind., where he grew the organization into a nationally recognized media operation. He began his career as an intern at Alabama Public Radio in Tuscaloosa, where he later became one of America’s youngest classical announcers. He has a B.A. in mass communications from Stillman College, where he attended on a choral music scholarship, and an M.B.A. from Valparaiso University, where he sits on the national council for the College of Business.