Although most well known for co-founding the Record Plant Recording Studios in New York, Sausalito and Los Angeles with Gary Kellgren, Chris Stone, a graduate of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, has started over 20 companies. Most of these companies have been related to the music industry.
Called the "Godfather of Modern Recording Studios", (PSN 12/07) Stone has made revolutionary contributions to the music industry including the modern look and feel that has become the trademark of top of the line studios today, He was responsible (with Rick Plushner for Sony) for introducing the compact disc to the pro audio community in 1982 and was one of the first in the community to recognize the importance of digital recording. Stone was in the vanguard of the introduction of multitrack digital recording and purchased one of the first 3324 and 3348 Sony digital multitrack digital recorders.
Co-founder, past President and Chairman of the Society of Professional Audio Recording Studios, co-founder of the Music Producers Guild of the Americas with Producer Ed Cherney (which evolved into what is now the Producers and Engineers wing of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, he also serves as the CEO of Filmsonixm an audio business consulting firm, and Chief Marketing Officer of Penteo Surround, a new technology that creates five channel surround from legacy stereo tracks.