Howie Abrams

New York City native Howie Abrams has spent nearly half of his life working in the music industry. Beginning in 1987 as a salesperson for Important Record Distributors (now RED Distribution), Howie made enough of an impression within his first 6 months at the company that they decided to allow him to start his own label In-Effect Records. During his time with In-Effect, Howie signed and negotiated deals for releases by groups such as 24-7 Spyz, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Prong and Scatterbrain among others.

After 6 years running In-Effect, Howie moved over to Roadrunner Records as Director of A&R and Product Management and worked with the likes of Type O Negative, Sepultura, Biohazard, Fear Factory, Shelter, Vision of Disorder, Madball, Front Line Assembly and Dog Eat Dog.

Currently in his 8th year of service at Jive Records/Zomba Music Publishing, Howieís current roster includes: Bowling For Soup, Mudvayne, the Misfits, Rhys Fulber (Delerium, Josh Groban, Fear Factory, P.O.D.), Carlos Bess (Wu-Tang Clan), Josh Joplin, One True Thing and Torontoís own Reason Disappears.