Pete Ganbarg is a 2-time Grammy Award-winning music business executive[1][2] who served as President of A&R at Atlantic Records from 2008-2024.
The first artist he worked with at Arista was Santana,[3] for whom Pete conceived and A&R’d the 30× Platinum World Wide, 9X Grammy Winning Album of the Year, Supernatural.
Company projects included albums by Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, David Cook, Halestorm, Train, Santana, Kenny G, Aaron Neville, America, Donna Summer, and Chaka Khan.
He joined Atlantic Records as Executive Vice President/Head of A&R in mid-October 2008[6] and was named President of A&R in late 2017, a position he held until May 2024.
As of 2021, he also hosts "Rock & Roll High School," a podcast interview series that spotlights figures from the history of contemporary music.