Education
University of California, Berkeley.
executive Chief Executive Officer
University of California, Berkeley.
Vlad has produced and directed films. He is also Chief Executive Officer of VladTV.com - a video website that many refer to as "The TMZ of Hip-Hop."
A computer science graduate of University of California Berkeley, Vlad began his career as a computer programmer. He eventually started his own dot-com staffing company, GigaStaff.
In 2000, Vlad closed down GigaStaff and turned his attention to music
He moved to New York and helped create Rap Phenomenon along with DJ Dirty Harry. Vlad then turned his attention towards film.
He directed on the American Gangster television Series, as well as the documentary film Ghostride the Whip. DJ Vlad also produced and hosted Russell Simmons" and Stan Lathan"s Hip-Hop on Demand - a nationally syndicated, on-demand Hip-Hop lifestyle channel on Comcast.
In 2008, DJ Vlad started VladTV.com, a hip hop video news site becoming the Number.
10 news channel on YouTube. Shortly after launching the channel, DJ Vlad was allegedly assaulted by rapper Rick Ross" entourage after VladTV covered a story on the rapper"s former career as a corrections officer Vlad filed a $4 million lawsuit.
On April 15, 2010, a New York Federal Jury awarded DJ Vlad $300,000 in his civil suit, finding Ross liable for his crew breaking Vlad"s eye socket at the Ozone Awards in Houston, Texas, in 2008.
In April 2009, the Star & Buc Wild show joined the VladTV family to do a daily feature. In May 2010, DJ Vlad appeared on Adult Swim"s cartoon The Boondocks.