CSI Merging the Diverse Worlds of Law, Business & Creativity
Attorney, Entrepreneur, Educator & Artist Spans the Business & Creative Universe
Robert Gurrola is a highly successful Hispanic attorney, business consultant and entrepreneur with over 15 years experience in Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Computer Law, Business Enterprise & Corporate Law, and Corporate Governance, Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management.
Mr. Gurrola's extensive business management and organization skills include:
- Business & Legal Organization;
- Financial Planning & Budgeting;
- Corporate Investment Planning & Development;
- Board Development & Administration;
- For-profit/Nonprofit Governance, Risk Management & Regulatory Compliance;
- Infrastructure Design & Development;
- Human Resource Acquisition & Retention, Team-building;
- Operations and Process Management;
- Marketing & Promotion, Community Outreach, Stakeholder & Foundation Development;
- Academic & Educational Outreach.
Mr. Gurrola has been responsible for the successful design & build-out of numerous for-profit & nonprofit business projects, including $15+ million in corporate development financing & services, contract negotiations worth over $30 million in real estate investment, construction, leasing & acquisition, and $20+ million in investment and/or leasing agreements with Fortune 500 high-technology providers. Mr. Gurrola has also undertaken business negotiations with a wide variety of state & city officials, business chambers, private investors & corporate stakeholders.
Mr. Gurrola also retains significant expertise in Corporate Governance, Enterprise Risk Management & Regulatory Compliance program development (OCC, Fed, SEC, FFIEC, Basel II, SOX, COSO, state/federal law) and has consulted for major U.S. banks including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp.
Mr. Gurrola is firmly committed to education and lifelong learning, and has been an educator in many different academic settings, including teaching music to elementary schoolchildren in France, music instruction at Pomona & Scripps colleges (Claremont, CA), developing the film scoring program at McNally-Smith College (St. Paul, MN), and developing and teaching the Intellectual Property Law curriculum at Inver Hills College (MN).
In addition, Mr. Gurrola has established various internship and professional opportunity training programs for students through his business and arts-based enterprises, which include: Creative Music Services (Los Angeles, CA), Hybrid Studios (Hollywood, CA), Creative Sound & Image, Inc. and CSI Labs (Twin Cities), West's Legal News (Twin Cities), the Woodbury Youth Orchestra (Woodbury, MN), LGI Media Studios (Woodbury, MN), the Forensic Media Lab (Twin Cities), and Media Bridge Studios (Twin Cities).
Robert Gurrola's extensive creative background features high-level training, performance & teaching in Classical, Jazz and Popular music in a wide variety of settings, ensembles & orchestras in U.S. & Europe. His advanced academic credentials include studies with Nadia Boulanger, a Paris Conservatory music degree, studies in Motion Picture Business & Production at UCLA, studies in Entrepreneurship at the College of St. Thomas Center for Business Excellence (St. Paul, MN), and a law degree from Hamline University School of Law (St. Paul, MN). His global network of professional associations includes such artists, musicians and entertainers as Maurice Andre, Roger Delmotte, Cornelius Cardew, Pierre Boulez, Darius Milhaud, George Crumb, John Cage, Solange Arcona, Russell Harris, Karl Kohn, Gail Kubik, Naim Juin Paik, Julie Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Dominic Gomeaux, Jean-Luis Bucchi, Jean Yves Boedec, Michel Portal, Ambrose Jackson, Roger Girand, Mario Fernandez, Sinbad, Dez Dickerson, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Handcock, Sandra Benitez, Garrison Keillor, & others.
In addition, he retains over 15 years professional experience as a film, television and digital media producer & music composer.
Mr. Gurrola is the Founder, co-Founder &/or President of Creative Music Services (Los Angeles, CA), Hybrid Studios (Hollywood, CA), West’s Legal News (West Publishing Co.), Creative Sound & Image, Inc., Media Bridge Studios, the Woodbury Youth Orchestra, and the Forensic Media Lab.