Jay Ziskrout

Jay Ziskrout (born September 8, 1962) was the first drummer for Bad Religion, forming the group with schoolmate Brett Gurewitz in 1979 when he was 17 years old. He performed on Bad Religion's self-titled EP and eight tracks on their debut full-length album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. He decided to leave the band with only half of the songs recorded due to a misunderstanding regarding the band's new press photos. Bad Religion hired another drummer in Jay Ziskrout's drum roadie, Pete Finestone, who took over drums to complete the album and subsequent releases, until he quit the band permanently in 1991.

Shortly after leaving the band, he moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he worked for many years with Clive Davis as Vice President of Album Promotion for Arista Records. Later he returned to his punk roots by joining Epitaph Records in Amsterdam, where he served as Managing Director of Epitaph Europe/International working to break such artists as The Offspring and Rancid. After Epitaph Records, Jay returned to New York to launch two Latin Alternative music businesses, Grita! Records and LatinoVision.com. From 2001-2005, he served as COO of The CMJ Network where he led a turnaround effort and a return to profitability.

Jay currently works as Founder and CEO of Dympol (pronounced dim-ple), a tech start-up focusing on the convergence of branded entertainment, cause, social and performance marketing. Jay works out of offices in his adopted home of Vermont as well as Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City, New York.