RICHARD CONLON
VP, Marketing & Business Dev, Media Licensing, BMI
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Richard Conlon is the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Media Licensing for BMI. Conlon leads the new media licensing group at BMI which is responsible for generating royalty revenue from digital media platforms on behalf of BMI represented songwriters, composers and music publishers. He also supervises BMI's marketing and communications outreach to BMI's traditional media customers including radio, television and cable.

Under his direction, BMI's digital licensing group has negotiated agreements for a wide variety of leading digital media properties including Yahoo, MSN, MP3.com, AOL, pressplay, and others. In addition, the team has negotiated royalty agreements with leading mobile entertainment providers for ringtones and other entertainment and information services delivered to cell phones . Conlon's team also spearheaded the first music industry online licensing utility, The Digital Licensing Center, offering totally electronic click - through copyright licensing agreements.

He is often cited as an industry source on digital media rights issues in leading trade and consumer publications including The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Reuters, The Associated Press, Wired, The Financial Times, The Industry Standard, Billboard, KPFK-AM , The Chicago Tribune, C-Net and many others.

Prior to joining BMI, Conlon was a television marketing consultant to SET, Viacom's Pay Per View production and marketing arm where he managed trade and consumer marketing and promotion for live music and sporting Pay Per View events. He also served as Vice President Affiliate Sales and Marketing for The Learning Channel cable network.

He holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from The Annenberg School of Communications at The University of Southern California and B.A. in English from Boston College.