Jim Tyrrell is "now retired", widely experienced executive businessman, skilled in the marketing of consumer products and services, as well as corporate administration. He has been providing the benefit of his unique experience to entrepreneurs in the Black community for many years. He is still actively counseling firms and individuals involved in various enterprises. Through the years Mr. Tyrrell has been a full service management representative for recording artists who have achieved gold and platinum sales awards and/or significant critical acclaim.

In 1983, Tyrrell was selected by a longtime music industry friend to serve as Managing Director of the Kingston, Jamaica based Tuff Gong Records, LTD., thee enterprise founded by the late Bob Marley. This full service operation included recording labels, recording studies, retail and wholesale sales activity and disc pressing plants. Before departing Tuff Gong, Tyrell, in one year, successfully reversed the negative cash flow conditions.

For nearly ten years at CBS, Tyrell advanced to Senior Vice President of Epic & Associated Labels Group where he made a key contribution to the seven year growth of sales from $6 million to more than $190 million. More importantly, he was the first black record executive to handle both Urban and Pop music. The label broke more than seven artists in each of those years: Clint Holmes, Jeff Beck, Labelle, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Teddy Pendergrass, The O'Jays, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Paycheck, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Meatloaf, Charlie Rich, Ted Nugent, Englebert Humperdink Cheap Trick, and The Jacksons, to name few. He was responsible, held approval, authority and influence in all creative, administrative and budgetary areas; operations in sales, merchandising, advertising, artist development, product management, promotion, production and inventory coordination, personnel development, branch sales and key customer relations. And he served on all divisional executive groups.

Tyrell is a native New Yorker who was one of the founding members and officer of the fraternity of Recording Executives (FORE) and the Black Music Association (BMA). He conceived and founded the PACE Scholarship fund which for many years benefited New York City Public High School graduates on their way to college. In addition to cash grants, the students were mated with high achieving notables who would serve as life long mentors. In his words, "No one can do it entirely on their own."

A musician who began his studies at age 4, Tyrrell become a much in demand New York studio musician; one of the first to play the fender electric bass in live performance as well as recordings. Many of the hits of the top artists from the 50's and 60s have used Tyrells bass sound on their records, which includes several hits by the "Godfather of Soul" James Brown. In the mid 60's he left the Apollo Theatre house band and Broadway to become a pioneering end innovative executive in the new field of pre-recorded tape cartridges, better known as eight track and cassette.

Prior to his recent retirement, he served as Corporate Secretary, Member of the Board of Directors, executive Vice-President of Safe Waste Systems, Inc., a publicly held New Jersey firm, since it began operations as Lopat Enterprises, Inc. in I985. The firm manufactures and markets a unique industrial chemical to hazardous solid waste remediators around the world.

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