Battle Approved Motors

James comes from a racing family. James and his younger brother use to race BMX professionally and his father raced Formula 3 back in the sixties. James is a proven business leader who has achieved success in a number of endeavors, from film to music to entrepreneurship. His out-of-the-box, creative instinct adds a major layer to Battle Approved Motors. James is the CEO of Battle Approved Motors, as well as the creator and producer of the successful extreme sports film series “Mod Kids USA,” available on Prime Video. He’s accomplished numerous accolades in the entertainment industry, as a musician and on the business side for over 30 years. James developed three highly successful UK and US-based record labels. He also has a Number 1 record in Japan as a recording artist. Combined, he sold more than 4.7 million units. Taking all that skill-set and experience, James has been working extensively on the Battle Approved Motors concept for the last five years.

Osborn recently resigned from the day-to-day operations of Black Rhino Performance (a San Diego based UTV Retail, Service, Maintenance, and Repair Center) to focus on the development of Battle Approved Motors. Black Rhino Performance was founded back in 2004 and grew to 20-plus employees with two locations including a 24,000 sq.ft facility selling thousands of various products. Osborn took full control of the company in May 2011. In 2012 Black Rhino purchased Racer X Motorsports, a premier communications company. Osborn’s twin boys (Bryan and Alex) also raced off-road professionally from 12 years old. Today Black Rhino, Inc. is a thriving business with sales on the rise, multiple sponsored racing series, and many individually sponsored drivers. Black Rhino is as devoted to UTVs and the sport of UTV racing as ever.

As one of the early pioneers of the digital era, Mark is best known for co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in Crackle’s groundbreaking, Streamy award-winning series, The Bannen Way. The show went on to win 4 Streamy Awards (Best Actor ‘Mark Gantt,’ Best Drama, Director, and Editor), nominated for the BANFF award, and two Webby Awards. Mark’s love for design and photography led to a twenty-five-year film and TV career where he learned the business from the ground up. Mark voices the narration for the Mod Kids' film series available on Amazon’s Prime Video. Directing credits include three Lifetime thrillers, Murder In Mexico, Model Citizen, and The Surrogate, as well as a pilot, Intricate Vengeance, for Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s New Form Digital. He’s also directed national commercials and promos for GMC, Nissan, Lifetime, Fox, AOL, Freeform, Capital One, Kohl’s, and ESPN. Mark’s onscreen credits include Criminal Minds, Dexter, American Horror Story: Hotel, Ocean’s Eleven, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Major Crimes, and The Arrangement. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress/writer Brianne Davis-Gantt, their son Davis, and dog Bear.