Career
A veteran of the music and film entertainment industries, Jordan Schur has garnered a reputation for creating and overseeing innovative and highly profitable ventures. Schur"s first major success was Flip Records, a music label he created in 1994 that launched the careers of world-renowned artists such as Limp Bizkit and Staind. Under Schur"s guidance, Flip Records went on to sell over 70M records as the company became a legendary brand in music
In 1999, Schur began his successful tenure of almost a decade as President of Geffen Records at Universal Music Group where he merged the original Geffen Records with Master of Computer Applications Records and DreamWorks Records – the newly expanded company went on to become the market share leader in the industry generating over 2B in sales.
Schur has worked with some of the world"s most successful chart-topping artists ranging from Nirvana, Guns North’ Roses, Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige, Rob Zombie, Ashlee Simpson, Sigur Ros, Common, The Roots, Sonic Youth, Blink 182, Enrique Iglesias, Beck, Nelly Furtado, and Counting Crows, to name a few. Suretone Entertainment, which Schur founded in 2006 as Suretone Records as the home where artists such as The Cure, Weezer, Chris Cornell, Angels & Airwaves, and Shwayze all found great success, has grown into a broader company over the last 8 years as the company dove into film development, financing, and production, as well as music artist management.
Schur also produced the critically acclaimed Henry"s Crime, starring Keanu Reeves, James Caan, and Vera Farmiga, and as well produced and financed with Lionsgate the film Rapture-Palooza, the youth based comedy starring Craig Robinson and Anna Kendrick, which was released last summer. Schur in 2012 founded Suretone Pictures, where he has since released several notable films, including last summer"s Pawn Shop Chronicles, which starred Paul Walker in one of his last films before his unfortunate passing, as well as Elijah Wood, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon and others
