Dan Schneider, Chairman
May 19th, 2009 | By dcrites | Category: Staff
Daniel was a founding member of the non-profit group SF Urban Riders in 2007, and is currently acting as its Chairman.
Daniel is a fourth generation San Franciscan who has been mountain biking for over 20 years. He participated in many early classic bike races among them, the Lemurian, Revenge of the Siskiyous, Downieville, and others that shaped his appreciation for the sport in the early 1990’s. Daniel continues to ride an Ibis hard tail by choice.
In 1996 he experienced trail building for the first time by working with the Bicycle Trails Council of Marin on the Camp Tamarancho project. Daniel has continued working on other trail projects with Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay, the Trail Center, V-O-CAL, and the National Forest Service. On National Trail Day in June of 2004 he volunteered on Mount Sutro for the first time, and became a founding member of the Mount Sutro Stewards. In 2007 the UCSF and Mount Sutro Stewards were recognized with a San Francisco Beautiful Award for their unique stewardship project.
Professionally, Daniel has over 20 years experience in alternative distribution and marketing, as well as traditional retail sales and event promotions having worked for Caroline Distribution, Relativity Entertainment Distribution, and Tower Records. Daniel has been responsible for managing over 300 music labels where success was results based. Clients have included Tower Records, Virgin Records, Amoeba Records, Rasputin’s Records, Valley One Stop and Apple ITunes. Represented artists have included Smashing Pumpkins, AIR, Chemical Brothers, Lyrics Born, and In Flames on record labels as diverse as Astralwerks, Ninja Tune, Real World, and Century Media.
