Songwriter/producer/musician and vocalist, Jim Boardwine, is the CEO and owner of Gateway City Records. Boardwine is also a songwriting and English instructor at Streetsboro High School. In 2006, he created an extremely successful high school songwriting program. Currently, he teaches songwriting courses at Streetsboro during the day, and at Hudson High School in the evening. He has performed on national (CBS' The Early Show) and local television, written songs that have garnered radio attention, and was named Streetsboro City School District's Teacher of the Year in 2007, Boardwine's proteges comprise Gateway City Records' roster, and he often teams "his people" w/ regionally and nationally successful artists.