Harold Gaba

Gaba was born January 22, 1946 in Oakland, CA. [1] He received a bachelor's degree in finance at the University of California, Berkely and a master's degree from UCLA. Gaba passed away from cancer on March 9, 2009 at the age of 63.[2]

Gaba received a bachelor's degree in finance at the University of California, Berkeley where he was member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity [3] and a master's degree in finance at UCLA.[1]

Gaba's career began in 1967 with a position as research analyst at William O'Neil and Company. His longtime association with Norman Lear started in 1974 when he joined Lear, Bud Yorkin and Jerry Perenchio at Tandem Productions as an acquisitions consultant.[2] In 1990, Gaba became President and Chief Executive Officer of Norman Lear's Act III Communications, a multimedia holding company with interests in broadcasting, movie theaters, trade magazine publishing, motion picture and television production and music. In 1999, Lear and Gaba became co-owners of Concord Records, which was founded as a small jazz label in Concord, California in 1973. In 2006 Gaba and Lear, joined by their long time colleague Michael Lambert, acquired a 50% interest in Village Roadshow Pictures Gaba also served on the board of directors for World Trade Bank, Union Rescue Mission, Univision Communications Corporation, the Henry Mancini Institute and the Curtis School. He also was part of the executive committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science. On March 9, 2009, Gaba died from a form of prostate cancer called small cell cancer.[1][4]