Director of Entertainment Marketing & Publicity / Head of Marketing, Yoshi’s World Class Jazz House
Joan Rosenberg, Director of Entertainment Marketing & Publicity, head of marketing for Yoshi’s World Class Jazz House. Former Marketing Director For Bill Graham Presents (BGP), Rosenberg was responsible for developing creative cross-marketing packages for BGP’s annual events including New Orleans By The Bay and San Francisco New Year’s Eve. She left BGP for a short time to become Senior Marketing and Communications Manager at a digital music company that was bought out by a record label. She returned to BGP in 2001 as the Publicity and Promotions Manager and shortly after that was promoted to Director of Marketing. In this role for five years, she has been responsible for all aspects of advertising live entertainment at venues from 900 to 20,000 seats in various markets of Northern California and the North Western United States. Joan graduated from Oakland’s Holy Names High School and obtained a B.A. in business from Holy Names University. She was born in Yonkers, New York, lived in both Manhattan and Brooklyn for most of her childhood, and now resides in the Bay Area.