Christopher Pasquin

Christopher "Rocket" Pasquin is an American entertainment entrepreneur, music executive, songwriter, and former music artist. He is best known as being the original founder of Rocket Records, and also for being a former member of the boy band DIVERSE. Throughout his career as a music executive, Pasquin has signed, developed, and written songs for numerous commercial music acts. In January 2002, he founded Rocket Records, an independent record label that commercially distributes pop music by its various artists.

Early years
Pasquin was an original member of the boy band DIVERSE from 1999 to 2001. The group unofficially disbanded in late-2001 when its five members decided to pursue other interests both inside and outside of the music industry. Shortly after leaving DIVERSE, Pasquin launched a new independent record label & music production company in January 2002, which he named Rocket Records.

From 2002 until 2007, Rocket Records operated primarily as an artist development company for up-and-coming music artists to further develop both their songwriting and live performance talents. Rocket Records placed some of those artists with larger independent record labels which already had distribution deals in place at the time with major labels such as Sony Music, BMG Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and EMI. In 2007, Pasquin placed Rocket Records into hibernation. The company remained dormant from 2007 until its official re-launching in 2011.

Recent work
In mid-2011, Pasquin made the decision to re-launch Rocket Records as a fully operating independent record label. Teaming with 2-time Grammy-nominated music producer Tim Coons and entertainment attorney Daniel R. Fallon, Rocket Records was officially re-launched in September 2011.

In 2012, Rocket Records, along with Coons' own company Atlantic Hill Music, helped to promote and digitally distribute Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough's solo album entitled "Howie D - Live From Toronto". The album was independently released worldwide by Dorough himself on March 13, 2012. Pasquin and his executive partners then initiated an online campaign to help Dorough promote the album in the months immediately following its release.

In early-2013, Pasquin publicly announced that Rocket Records had signed multiple Pop artists to record development deals. As of 2014, Pasquin continues to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Records. He is also an entertainment/sports industry business consultant to a group of current/former ATP World Tour professional tennis players which includes Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, the Bryan brothers, Mardy Fish, Andy Roddick, and others.

Personal
Pasquin is married to designer Noell Desiree, who is best known for her popular fashion line of jewelry & accessories. He is a graduate of Eastern Christian High School in North Haledon, NJ, the same school that has produced notable entertainment personalities such as the Jonas Brothers, Bethany Joy Lenz, Antonique Smith, and Katie Sagona. Two of Pasquin's former DIVERSE group members, Eric "Eggs" Veenstra and Michael Link, also attended the school at the same time that Pasquin was there.