Chad Gibson is a Group
Manager within the Zune team at Microsoft driving
the next generation social and community aspects of
Zune. Prior to joining the Zune organization Chad
worked on several music related projects ranging
from multimedia development platforms to innovative
methods for audio creation and editing. Chad is
also an avid guitarist and gigging musician.
Tim Bucher
· CEO & Chief Product Officer
Zing
Tim Bucher, CEO and Chief
Product Officer, is the principal founder and now leads
the ZING team providing vision and guidance for the
company. He has a twenty-year history of developing
revolutionary products for consumers and professionals.
Most recently, he served as senior vice president of
Macintosh Engineering for Apple Computer, Inc., where he
was responsible for product development on iMac, Mac
Mini, PowerMac, PowerBook, iBook, eMac, and XServe,
Apple display and wireless products — and managed the
core technology of Apple’s iPod.
A serial entrepreneur, Tim is the founder and chairman
of Mirra, Inc., a developer of digital content
protection products for the home and small businesses
(now part of Seagate), and was part of the founding team
for WebTV Networks, the first company to bring the
Internet to television and pioneer interactive TV.
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of WebTV, Tim served
as VP of Microsoft’s Consumer Products and was a leader
of the Xbox program. Tim was also part of the team that
formed interactive gaming systems pioneer 3DO and
shipped the first CD-ROM based gaming console.
Previously, Tim held senior engineering positions at
NeXT computer and was an early employee at Sun
Microsystems.
Tim Westergren
· Founder
Pandora
Tim Westergren
founded Pandora in January, 2000 and now serves as
its Chief Strategy Officer.
Tim is an award-winning
composer, an accomplished musician and record
producer with 10 years of experience in the music
industry. He has worn many hats, from recording and
touring with independent bands, to scoring feature
films and running a commercial recording studio.
Trained as a jazz pianist, he has played the
bassoon, drums and clarinet and his musical
background spans such genres as rock, blues, jazz
and classical music. Tim founded Pandora to help
talented emerging artists find their audience as
well as to help avid music fans discover and enjoy
new artists.
Tim received his B.A.
from Stanford University, where he studied computer
acoustics and recording technology. He once had the
privilege of studying under the legendary Stan Getz,
whose words, "Remember, it's not the mode...it's the
mood," still ring true.
Jonathan Potter
· Executive Director
Digital Media Association
Representing America’s leading online media
companies as Executive Director of DiMA, Jonathan
Potter is actively involved in the development of
U.S. and global public policy associated with
digital entertainment convergence. He frequently
testifies before Congress and speaks at conferences
worldwide, and was named one of Washington’s top
technology lobbyists by Tech Counsel
Magazine. In 2001 Mr. Potter was
instrumental in the creation of EDiMA, the European
Digital Media Association. He is a graduate of New
York University School of Law and the University of
Rochester.
Steve
Jang
· VP, Marketing & Bus. Development
imeem
Steve develops and drives content and technology
partnerships, product management, and community
marketing for imeem.
Prior to joining imeem, he worked in digital media,
business development and marketing roles at EMI
Music, XUMA, WR & Hambrecht + Co, and Salon.com.
Steve has a B.A. from the University of California,
Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Southern
California.
Ted Cohen
· Managing Partner / Chairman,
TAG Strategic / Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
Integrating his
widespread digital authority in music, mobile, IPTV
and product & service development, Ted Cohen is the
Managing Partner of TAG Strategic.
In an industry that's been slow to embrace change,
Cohen is the exception to the stereotypical
music-exec rule. Of course, when you start a career
on the road with Alice Cooper and Van Halen, you're
more primed for the unexpected.
Known throughout the
technology and music industries as being "part
ambassador and part evangelist," Cohen was
instrumental in crafting the licensing agreements
upon which the Rhapsody subscription service and the
iTunes Music Store were built.
In his previous role as Senior Vice President of
Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music
(home of artists including Coldplay and the Rolling
Stones), Cohen led next-generation digital business
development worldwide for this "big four" record
company, which includes labels such as Capitol,
Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis.
During that time, EMI led the industry by embracing
and exploiting new technologies and business models
such as digital downloads and online music
subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless
services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.
In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing
business opportunities for the company on a global
basis, Cohen served as both a strategist and key
decision-maker for EMI's global new media and
anti-piracy efforts. He worked to establish
company-wide digital policies, which have provided
EMI's artists and labels a substantial advantage in
the digital music arena.
Prior to his role at EMI, Cohen served as Executive
Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where
he co-founded and served as Chairman of the
groundbreaking Webnoize conferences.
Cohen also led two highly successful new media
consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting
Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com,
Microsoft, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Records,
Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and
various other entertainment, technology and new
media organizations. Cohen also held senior
management positions at both Warner Bros. Records
and Philips Media.
A 30-year industry veteran, Cohen was recently
elected Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum
Americas board, and currently chairs MidemNet, an
international music/technology conference convened
in Cannes each year. Cohen also serves on the NARAS
(Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors as
well as the national Trustee Board, the Board of
Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund,
co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell
Foundation, and lends his time and talents to music
& technology education efforts such as the Grammy In
The Schools Program.
Ali
Partovi
· CEO
iLike, Inc.
iLike (www.iLike.com)
is the web's leading social music discovery service,
and the dominant music application on Facebook.
iLike helps you discover and share playlists,
concerts by your favorite artists, and new music to
match your tastes. With iLike you can add music to
Facebook and add friends to your iPod.
Ali has been the CEO of
iLike (formerly GarageBand.com), since 2002. Prior
to iLike, Ali co-founded web-promotion company
LinkExchange, which was acquired for $265 million by
Microsoft in 1998. Ali is an avid guitarist and
keyboard player.
Ned Sherman
· CEO & Publisher
Digital Media Wire, Inc.
Ned Sherman is CEO and
Publisher of Digital Media Wire, Inc., where he works at
the center of the rapidly growing digital media
industry. Under his leadership, Digital Media Wire has
grown from a small newsletter publisher into a
well-respected B-to-B brand that owns and produces five
annual conferences - Digital Music Forum, Games & Mobile
Forum, Digital Media Conference, Future of Television
Forum, Digital Commerce Summit and The Billboard Digital
Entertainment Conference & Awards (now DEMXPO) - and
provides daily news, information and community to
30,000+ executives and professionals at entertainment,
media and technology companies throughout the world.
As digital media community-builder, Ned has established
partnerships with the leading B-to-B media companies and
educational institutions, including VNU Business Media,
Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Reed
Business Information, Multichannel News, Business 2.0,
Business Week, CableFax/CableWorld, VIBE/SPIN, MidemNet,
NYU's Stern School of Business, USC’s Center for Telecom
Management and UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and
hundreds of the leading digital media companies,
including Microsoft, Real Networks, Sony Corporation of
America, AOL Time Warner, Napster, Yahoo! and many more.
Ned’s background is in law. Before joining Digital Media
Wire, Ned spent 7+ years as a corporate and
entertainment attorney practicing at several of the
leading law firms in the world with an international
client base across industries including technology,
Internet, media and entertainment.
As a founding member of the iLaw Group in the
Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Century
City, he handled complex licensing transactions and
financings for media and entertainment clients including
Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of
Internet and new media start-ups. He has counseled
company founders from initiation of a business plan to
seed, angel, venture capital and later-stage private
financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet
clients from corporate organization, stockholder
relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock
option plans, capital raising and security regulatory
matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright,
content and technology licensing, advertising and
privacy issues.
He sits on the Board of Directors of Wild Way, a
non-profit dedicated to cultivating environmental
awareness and developing educational programs for
inner-city and “at risk” kids and has traveled
extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to
Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife
and son in Hollywood Hills, California.
Karlheinz Brandenburg
· Director
Fraunhofer
Institute for Digital Media Technology
Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June
20th 1954 in Erlangen, Germany. He received Dipl. Ing.
degrees from Erlangen University in Electrical
Engineering (1980) and in Mathematics (1982). In 1989 he
obtained his Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering
for his work on digital audio coding and perceptual
measurement techniques. The research results of his
dissertation are the basis of MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3), MPEG
-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and most other modern
audio compression schemes. During his time with AT&T
Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, USA from 1989 to 1990
he was working on ASPEC and MPEG-1 Layer 3. In 1990 he
returned to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to
accomplish further research within the field of audio
coding. In 1993 he became head of the Audio/Multimedia
department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated
Circuits in Erlangen. Since 2000, Karlheinz Brandenburg
is a full professor at the Institute for Media
Technology at Ilmenau Technical University. At the same
time he is the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau. Karlheinz
Brandenburg has memberships in different international
standards committees and is Fellow of IEEE and the Audio
Engineering Society (AES). During his career Brandenburg
has been granted about 100 patents. Prof. Brandenburg
has published numerous articles for scientific
conferences, including the AES. Together with Mark Kahrs
he published the book “Applications of Digital Signal
Processing to Audio and Acoustics“. Prof. Brandenburg
has received a number of awards including the AES silver
medal award for his continued contributions and
leadership to the art and science of perceptual audio
coding (1998), the German Internet Award NEO (2001) and
the IEEE Engineering Excellence Award (2000). Together
with two colleagues he received the German Future Award
for their work on MP3 in 2000. Furthermore, he was
honored with the “IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronic
Award“ for major contributions to digital audio source
coding in May 2004. As his most recent decoration,
Brandenburg received the Cross of the Order of Merit of
the Federal Republic of Germany in December 2006.
Moreover the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
elected Karlheinz Brandenburg to one of the 120 most
important inventors and masterminds in the field of
electrical engineering and admitted him to the hall of
fame of thinkers through the ages. In 2007, he was
elected together with Prof. Dieter Seitzer and Prof.
Heinz Gerhäuser into the “CE Hall of Fame”. The award,
initialized by the Consumer Electronics Association,
honors the work on inventing and introducing the mp3
format.
Aydin Caginalp
· Partner, Ent. & Media Group Manatt, Phelps &
Phillips, LLP
Mr. Caginalp’s
practice concentrates on business transactions,
including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, private
equity and general corporate and commercial matters,
with an emphasis on international matters, entertainment
and new media. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in
America.
He has worked
extensively in the media and e-commerce field in
connection with the acquisition of technology companies,
music, broadcast and production companies throughout the
world. In connection with Internet activities, he has
worked in the establishment of ISP services, search
engine companies, e-commerce companies and various
initiatives involving delivery of music and
entertainment products through the Internet, as well as
digital rights management.
Michael
Petricone · SVP,
Government Affairs
Consumer Electronics Association
Michael Petricone is the senior vice president of
government affairs for the Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA). In his position, Michael has been
responsible for representing the CE industry’s position
before Congress and the FCC on critical issues such as
digital television broadband, privacy and home recording
rights. Mr. Petricone is a frequent speaker on policy
issues impacting the consumer electronics industry, and
in 2003 Michael was featured by Dealerscope Magazine as
one of the technology industry’s “Top 40 Under 40”. Mr.
Petricone received his law degree from Georgetown
University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from
Tufts University. CEA represents more than 1000 U.S.
manufacturers of audio, video, accessories, mobile
electronics, communication, information and multimedia
products that are sold through consumer channels. CEA
also sponsors and manages the International Consumer
Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest annual trade
event showcasing consumer electronics products.
Albhy Galuten
· VP, Digital Media Technology Strategy
Sony Corporation of America
Albhy Galuten is Vice President of Digital Media Technology Strategy for Sony
Corporation of America (SCA). In addition to his technological achievements,
Mr. Galuten is a Grammy award-winning record producer, songwriter and arranger.
Mr. Galuten joined SCA in March 2005, and is responsible for the Media Technology
Group. The Media Technology Group assists with technology strategy and due
diligence, research & development, relationships with the content industry
and the development of standards.
Before coming to Sony, Mr. Galuten was Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology,
Universal Music Group. Under Mr. Galuten, eLabs and Universal’s Advanced
Technology group provided: strategic advice to senior management in the technology
space, performed technical due diligence of software, hardware and business
systems, invented technology and filed patents. Under Mr. Galuten, the group also
managed standards participation, negotiated technology licenses and provided
technical support for lobbying efforts and trade organizations.
Before working at Universal, Mr. Galuten was a Vice President at ION where he created
and developed the Enhanced CD.
Prior to working in technology Mr. Galuten was a musician and record producer. In 1978
he won two Grammy awards including Producer of the Year. His original compositions and
orchestrations for Film, Theatre and on record have won him a Dramalogue Award and two
BMI Awards. During his music career which spanned more than 20 years, Mr. Galuten worked
with numerous multi-platinum artists, produced eighteen No. 1 singles, and generated
sales of more than 100 million records.
Ralph
Simon
·
Chairman Emeritus & Founder
Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the
founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry.
After co-founding Zomba & Jive Records and building both
from their formative years into highly successful
independent companies and a distinguished career in the
recording industry, music publishing and producer
management, he moved to California from London in the
early 1990s. As Executive Vice President of Capitol
Records and Blue Note, he started EMI’s New Media
division in the mid-‘90s.
Simon correctly
predicted that mobile phones would become the
indispensable voice-and-music companion for young music
and culture consumers, and was responsible for
co-founding Yourmobile/Moviso in 1999, the first ring
tone company in the USA, UK, Europe, Africa and
Australia. He founded the Mobile Entertainment
Forum-Americas, the industry trade group of which he is
Chairman Emeritus today.
In 2005 he
introduced the terms Mociology and Mocio-Economics,
and a new field of study, that examined the impact of
mobiles and mobility on people’s social lives and
behavior. The inaugural lecture was held at the Royal
Society of Arts in London and the world’s first
professorial chair in Mociology has now been
established at a South African university.
In July 2005, Simon
served as the mobile producer of the Live 8
global concerts. The influential Mobile
Entertainment magazine identified him as one of the
world’s Top 50 executives in mobile entertainment in
2005 and again, in 2006. He was global mobile producer
for the Live Earth global cross-platform event
with Al Gore in July.
In September 2007 he
received the prestigious Mobile Entertainment
Magazine Award for his ‘Outstanding Contribution to
Mobile Entertainment’. He is currently advisor and
global mobile producer of Pangea Day (www.pangeaday.org)
, the unique cross-platform project scheduled for May
2008 by the TED Conference organization.
Simon was one of the
early trailblazers for mobile music internationally,
evangelizing artists, managers, digital creators,
technology companies, media companies and labels to link
to artists, their persona and their music via their
mobile phones. He works with leading companies and
executives around the world to strategize and
successfully expand their influence and commercial
opportunity using wi-fi, Wi-Max, mobile and mobile
entertainment.
He is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and a member of the
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the
USA.
Greg
Scholl
·
CEO
The Orchard
Greg serves as president and chief executive of The
Orchard, the world’s largest and leading marketer and
distributor of independent music. Greg is also a
managing director of Dimensional Associates. Dimensional
acquires and operates media and technology companies. In
addition to The Orchard, Dimensional’s holdings include
eMusic, the world’s leading digital retailer of
independent music and second-largest digital music
retailer worldwide (second to iTunes); and Dimensional
Music Publishing, a traditional music publisher with
over 20,000 copyrights including catalogues ranging from
The Byrds and John Denver to Billy Strayhorn.
Greg joined The Orchard from McKinsey & Company, where
he was an associate partner in the Media & Entertainment
group. Prior to McKinsey, Greg was managing partner of
Carlin Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Ed
Cohen, founder of General Atlantic Partners. Prior to
that, Greg was a principal in Booz Allen & Hamilton's
Media & Entertainment group. Greg holds an A.B. magna
cum laude from Harvard College in History and Science.
Mark
Ghuneim
·
CEO
Wiredset
Mark Ghuneim launched the online and
mobile company Wiredset in 2004 after 16 years with Sony
Music USA, where he was most recently Senior Vice
President for Online Services. In that role, he created
and implemented online marketing campaigns and was
responsible for Sony Music's online sales. As Senior
Vice President of Online & Emerging Technologies for
Sony's Columbia Records Group, Ghuneim was instrumental
in the careers of artists such as Destiny's Child, Jeff
Buckley, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel.
Ghuneim has pioneered innovations in new media as the
music industry has evolved during the past three
decades. Before joining Sony, Ghuneim was Director of
Press and Video Promotion for the legendary independent
label Beggars Banquet Records. In the nascent days of
music video, he was program director and production
manager at the New York City video night club Private
Eyes. Ghuneim has moderated numerous panels at industry
gatherings and guest lectured at universities in Los
Angeles and New York. He has worked as as a mentor with
New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of
Business. Ghuneim photographs have appeared in
publications such as New Musical Express, the British
music weekly.
David
Pakman
·
CEO
eMusic
David
Pakman is a Managing Director of Dimensional Associates,
the parent company of eMusic, The Orchard, Dimensional
Music Publishing (formerly DreamWorks Music Publishing)
and Dimensional Mobile Entertainment. He also serves as
President and CEO for eMusic and Dimensional Mobile
Entertainment.
Pakman is a pioneer and entrepreneur in the world of
digital music. He was the Co-founder and President of
Business Development and Public Policy at Myplay, Inc.,
the broadband application services company founded in
1999 that introduced the “digital music locker” and
pioneered the locker category. After selling Myplay to
Bertelsmann’s eCommerce Group in 2001, Pakman was named
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and
Public Policy for BeMusic, a division of Bertelsmann.
Prior to Myplay, Pakman was an early principal force and
co-creator of Apple Computer’s Music Group, co-founding
the Macintosh New York Music Festival and co-producing
the then-largest industry webcast to date, the 1997
GRAMMY Awards. After Apple, he became Vice President at
N2K Entertainment. He served as a board member of the
Digital Media Association (DiMA) and was co-chair of its
licensing committee.
Pakman has advised scores of companies in the digital
entertainment space, and remains a board member of
Knitting Factory Entertainment, and an avid musician and
songwriter. Pakman has spoken at more than 100 events
over the past decade, including Plug.in, Webnoize,
Digital Hollywood, PFF Summit (Progress and Freedom
Foundation), Paul Allen’s conference, Billboard, Winter
Music Festival, SxSW, NxNW, AES, NAMM, Leadership Music
in Nashville, Macworld, Digital Music Summit, Music 2.0,
MobileMusicCon, and more.
He has testified in front of Congress on issues related
to music copyright in a digital age, and has published
in the American University Law Review. He holds a
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from
University of Pennsylvania.
Timmy Grins is
co-founder and VP of Content of IHTV Inc., which
runs the online entertainment platform
www.onloq.com,
which is in alpha version and will be officially
launched in the fourth quarter of 2007. In this
role, Tim plays a critical role in developing
relationships with indie artists, such as Ill Bill,
Hangar 18 and Jedi Mind Tricks and mainstream
artists, such as Method Man, Rakim and Redman. Tim
is also the host of The Breakdown, the artist
acclaimed channel on OnLoq.com.
Tim has over 10 years
experience in virtually every aspect of
entertainment. As an artist, he toured with big and
small artists, nationally and internationally, while
a member of indie group, Arcane, and has opened up
for some of hip hop’s most ground breaking artists,
including KRS-One and Cypress Hill. As a tour
manager, Tim managed the hip hop segment of the Vans
Warped tour, a predominately punk rock tour. Tim
turned the segment into one of the most consistently
packed segments of the tour, nationwide, which is
remarkable given the preponderance of rock fans. As
a promoter, Tim developed the Elements Party into
what the City Paper recognized as “the number one
place to see hip hop in the Mid Atlantic region” for
two years in a row. Tim’s experience also
includes artist management where he manages every
aspect including negotiating tour, content, label
and distribution deals.
Tim graduated with a
degree in psychology from Towson University.
Alan
Miller
·
Co-Owner & CEO / Co-Publisher
Filter Creative Group / Filter Magazine
A renowned pioneer in the music and
entertainment industry, Alan Miller has
earned an unrivalled reputation as a dynamic
visionary, a driving force, and a touchstone of
taste making and trend-setting in a changing
landscape over the past decade.
Driven by his long-time passion for
music, Alan quickly moved up the corporate ladder at
PolyGram Group Distribution and established himself
as an innovative marketing mind, a shining light
amongst his peers. Throughout the 90’s he was
pioneering creative sales and marketing campaigns
across the country for artists such as U2, Sheryl
Crow,Portishead, and many others. In
1998 he moved to San Francisco to accept a Regional
Sales & Marketing role with Geffen Records. The
label folded a year later but the experience proved
invaluable, giving Alan the opportunity to create
Geffen’s first-ever marketing website, and providing
the catalyst for future business plans born of
inspiration and ideas shared with his now business
partner Alan Sartirana.
In 2000, with co-founder Alan
Sartirana, Alan launched Filter Music Media
Marketing. A creative marketing company born of
entrepreneurial spirit, vision, and desire to expose
music in new and effective ways, with an unwavering
commitment to credibility and integrity. The timing
was impeccable. The burgeoning digital music
environment was raising big questions for record
companies and media players alike. FilterMMM
fast-established itself as a cutting-edge and
passionate marketing team that artists, managers and
labels could turn to for support in getting their
music heard in the spirit of true partnership.
Uniquely customized marketing campaigns were
designed and implemented, organic grassroots
initiatives reached previously untapped niche
markets, and fresh and innovative methods connected
artists to music fans in interactive environments as
well as to broader lifestyle, and pop culture
partners via more traditional media outlets.
Seven years later, Filter Music
Media Marketing/Filter Creative Group continues
to thrive. An ever-evolving, multi-platform media
company diversifying into magazine publishing,
creative agency, record label, and recognized
breeding ground for an avid and dedicated community
of tastemakers, lifestyle partners, and music fans
looking to discover quality in amongst the masses.
It has also expanded to include films, art and other
products deemed as credible and of interest to their
discerning demographic. Music marketing clients have
included Radiohead, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Keane,
The Beastie Boys, Modest Mouse, and all major
and indie record labels. Lifestyle partners and
sponsorship clients include Landmark Theatres, Ben
Sherman, Diesel, Levi’s, Atari, MTV, Comedy Central,
Fox Searchlight, Anthropologie, American Rag, and
Puma.
In the summer of 2002, frustrated at
the lack of quality magazines available, and aware
of a growing audience of discerning music fans
looking for an alternative to an unfulfilling
mainstream offering, Filter launched, Filter
Magazine. A 112-page book dedicated to
discovering great music and it’s intertwining with
art, fashion and related lifestyle. Twenty five
issues later, Filter Magazine has become the
fastest growing music magazine in America available
at all fine retailers (including Urban Outfitters,
Barnes & Noble, Borders, Virgin Megastore) and
distributed internationally (UK/Europe, Japan,
Australia/NZ) Lauded for it’s inherent editorial
credibility, hand-crafted aesthetic and cutting edge
content, cover artists have already included: PJ
Harvey, Lou Reed & The Strokes, The Cure, Michael
Stipe (R.E.M), Bjork, Beck, and David Bowie.
2004 Filter Magazine spawned Filter
mini, a 32 page free version of Filter (Filter Good
Music Guide) with all unique content and
advertising.
2005 marketed
the debut of Filter US Recordings, home to
international Norwegian artist Magnet, the UK
outfit Amusement Parks on Fire, Australia’s
Panda Band and international recording artist
Devics.
David
Goldberg
·
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Benchmark Capital
Dave Goldberg is an
accomplished entrepreneur, an influential music
industry executive, and a driving force in the
online music industry. He co-founded LAUNCH Media
Inc. in 1994, which was dedicated to delivering
music and music-related content online, and he led
the company through its acquisition by Yahoo! in
2001.
Upon joining Yahoo!,
Dave served as vice president and general manager of
Yahoo! Music, where he led the company’s global
music operations and built it into the Internet’s
number one music destination During his tenure,
traffic increased from two million to 25 million
unique users per month, and 4 billion music videos
were streamed in 2006 alone. In addition, LAUNCHcast
Radio became the number one Internet radio service,
and Dave was named one of Billboard Magazine’s top
power players in digital music.
Prior to co-founding
LAUNCH, Dave was director of marketing strategy and
new business development at Capitol Records in Los
Angeles. In that role, he was responsible for the
development of new multimedia distribution methods
and the creation of alternative channels through
which music and new artists could be effectively
marketed to consumers.
Education:
Dave graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history
and government. He is a member of the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Scott
Fedewa
·
EVP & Executive Producer
Live Nation
Scott Fedewa is
Executive Vice President & Executive Producer for
Live Nation, the world’s largest concert
promoter/venue operator. Scott runs the company’s
Digital Products group, where he is responsible for
creative development, strategy, design, and
front-end production of the company’s web sites,
including LiveNation.com and HOB.com, as well as
other new media initiatives and products.
A pioneer in interactive entertainment, Scott has
been building innovative online entertainment
businesses since 1995. He founded the pioneering
online music community, Musicosm.com, worked with a
variety of venture capital-backed dot-coms during
the boom, and helped build interactive businesses
for top television clients including Bill O’Reilly,
Larry King, Glenn Beck, and DIC’s Trollz.com. He is
also a former investment banker and record label
executive.
Scott’s best-selling book on e-commerce
entrepreneurship, “Internet Riches”, was recently
published by the American Management Association. He
also wrote the first scholarly legal article
predicting the impact of the Internet on the music
business in 1994.
Scott is a member of both the Recording Academy and
the Television Academy, where he serves as a Judge
for the Emmy Awards in Interactive Television. He
received his B.A. from the University of Michigan
and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Marty
Lafferty
· CEO
DCIA
Marty Lafferty, Chief
Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry
Association (DCIA): As DCIA’s CEO, Marty Lafferty is
responsible for industry outreach, strategic
development and management of all association
initiatives. He is an accomplished new media
industry leader with a track record of successful
multi-business collaboration and excellence in
pioneering the distribution of content via new
technologies.
Throughout his career, Lafferty has served in senior
leadership positions for some of the world’s most
innovative technology and entertainment companies.
Lafferty joined DCIA from Lafferty Media Partners
LLC (LMP) where he served as Managing Partner. Prior
to LMP, he was CEO of Zoom Culture, which he
transformed from a year-old dotcom into a thriving
digital television and new media firm within 24
months, working with partners including NBC and PAX
TV. He also led Zoom’s software development team and
partnered with Apple engineers to serve as the first
Beta client for Scale 8’s advanced global storage
network and edge content distribution system.
Previously he served as CMO for StreamSearch.com,
where he oversaw the conversion of streaming video
search engines from a technological to an
entertainment market focus, working with and for
major studios such as Paramount and Artisan. During
his tenure as Microsoft TV VP of Corporate & Service
Marketing, Lafferty supported the strategic refocus
of Microsoft’s WebTV acquisition from a purely B2C
niche subscription offering to a B2B application
suite for multichannel service distributors and
their set-top suppliers, in addition to introducing
plans for the Xbox game console.
Lafferty has received recognition from, and held
leadership positions in, numerous industry
organizations throughout his career. He was awarded
the Council for Entrepreneurial Development Award as
a top-fifty new company. He served as Membership
Chairman of the Interactive Services Association,
and was named Chairman of the International Digital
Satellite Television Symposium. Lafferty also
co-founded the Satellite Broadcasting Communications
Association and served as its first Vice Chairman.
Lafferty holds a Master’s degree from Yale
University and Bachelors with honors from Williams
College. He has received the NCTA’s President’s
Award and a CTAM TAMI Award for industry service.
John
T. Frankenheimer
· Chair, Music Group
Partner & Co-Chair
Loeb & Loeb, LLP
John T. Frankenheimer,
Co-chair of Loeb & Loeb LLP, is a partner in the
Firm’s Los Angeles office and is also Chair of the
Firm’s Music Group. His practice is centered in the
entertainment and media industries, with emphasis on
both institutional and talent clients. This includes
advising on the acquisition, sale and restructuring
of companies, including financing, valuation,
securitization and due diligence issues, as well as
representing companies, artists and executives in
all aspects of the music industry, including all
forms of talent contracts, distribution, licensing,
technology-related issues, publishing,
sub-publishing, touring and live events and
production activities.
He also represents writers, producers and directors
in both film and television. Mr. Frankenheimer’s
principal clients include record companies and
distributors; multinational and independent music
publishers; internationally recognized recording and
touring artists; television writers, producers and
directors; motion picture writers and producers; new
media and technology companies and financial
institutions and investors.
Mr. Frankenheimer also works on Internet, wireless
and new media projects, representing both major
companies and emerging concerns in structuring,
financing, licensing and M&A activities. Mr.
Frankenheimer speaks regularly at industry and
financial seminars, such as UCLA Entertainment Law
Symposium, USC School of Law, Forbes CEO Conference
and the Billboard Music and Money Symposium,
addressing cross-media issues.
Kelli
Richards
· President & CEO
The All Access Group
Kelli is a veteran in
the traditional music industry as an A&R exec (EMI),
and is an early pioneer & veteran in digital music
and entertainment as well.
She is also a sought after talent producer, having
produced a wide range of concerts, award shows, and
celebrity fundraiser events over the past two
decades. She led music and entertainment
initiatives at Apple for over a decade before
launching her own company, The All Access Group, a
digital music and media consultancy. Her company
advises some of the most influential, cutting edge
companies in technology and entertainment today.
Kelli is highly artist-centric with a large network
of artists, producers, and industry influencers in
her extensive rolodex. She has a special passion
for enabling established artists to connect more
directly with their fans, and to monetize their
brands more broadly across the full spectrum of the
digital landscape. Kelli is the co-author of two
books, including the acclaimed "The Art of Digital
Music", and is renowned globally as an expert and
speaker on digital media and music convergence.
Jason
Fiber
· President & Founder
Audio Rover, LLC
Jason Fiber is the
President and Founder of Audio Rover, LLC, a
multi-faceted digital media entertainment company.
Audio Rover’s suite of offerings includes consulting
services to businesses working to establish a
footprint in the ever-evolving music landscape and
guidance to musicians seeking direction in the
entertainment industry. Audio Rover is also the
parent company for Superfecta Recordings (an
independent record label focused on eclectic and
alternative music from emerging artists) and The
Ideal Copy (an online retailer bringing hard-to-find
titles to genre enthusiasts).
Previously Fiber was President of Cordless
Recordings, which is Warner Music Group’s ‘eLabel’
-- the first such initiative of its kind among the
major record labels. Jason partnered with music
legend Jac Holzman (founder of Elektra & Nonesuch
Records) to design and launch Cordless as a
different kind of recording company. Cordless
leverages online and mobile communications
technologies to support musicians of every genre and
career stage. At Cordless Jason was responsible for
all day-to-day operations of the label, including
A&R, sales, purchasing, marketing, distribution and
general management functions.
Earlier in his career, Fiber worked at Wherehouse
Music, a leader in entertainment retailing. As Vice
President of Internet Services for Wherehouse, Fiber
spearheaded the creation and expansion of the
company’s online retail business and oversaw the
development of in-store, digital music sampling
stations. Fiber also created and produced an
Internet-based, weekly music talk show, “The
Wherehouse Lounge.” Before joining the Wherehouse,
Fiber was a producer and project manager at the Web
development agency, BoxTop Interactive/iXL, where he
ran the entertainment group, producing Web sites for
recording artists Rage Against the Machine and
Alanis Morissette and brands such as Guess Clothing
and UPN.
From 1993-1996, Fiber held the lead management role
at World Domination Recordings, an independent label
subsidiary of Capitol Records. He began his career
in the A&R department at Epic Records.
Fiber is a founding member of the National
Association of Recording Merchandisers’ (NARM)
Online Retailing Committee. A frequent speaker at
leading music industry events, Fiber has also been a
spokesperson for the music industry in USA Today,
Fast Company, Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times
and Billboard. He earned his bachelors degree in
Communications from the University of California at
Santa Barbara.
Seth
Schulte
· Director, Product
Management, Rhapsody
RealNetworks, Inc.
Seth is the Director of Product Management
for Rhapsody responsible for consumer
electronic device integration of the
Rhapsody music service. His work involves
enabling access to Rhapsody from portable
and home audio devices, mobile phones, car
audio systems and television set-top boxes.
While working for Real, he has been
responsible for implementation with
manufacturers such as Nokia, Tivo and
Sandisk.
Prior to joining RealNetworks, Seth was the
Vice President of Interactive for MTV
Networks Europe, overseeing MTV's
pan-European online, mobile and interactive
television services.
Tyler
Lenane
· Corporate Counsel
RealNetworks, Inc.
Tyler Lenane is Corporate Counsel for
RealNetworks, where he provides business and
legal counsel in connection with the music
licensing for all of RealNetworks’ products
and services, including the Rhapsody digital
music service, RadioPass and SuperPass. He
is responsible for all aspects of Real’s in
and outbound licensing, distribution
agreements for Real’s intellectual property,
and live performance agreements.
Before joining Real’s San Francisco office,
Lenane spent three years as an associate at
Jenkens Gilchrist Parker Chapin LLP in New
York City and one year as an associate at
Troutman Sanders LLP in New York City. As an
associate, he represented and advised
clients in connection with complex
commercial litigation and intellectual
property and entertainment law matters
concerning music royalties, Digital
Millennium Copyright Act issues, internet
law, regulatory compliance, Lanham Act
violations, copyright, trademark, and right
of publicity claims. He also represented a
number artists, including the Ramones, in
recording agreements, film option
agreements, co-author agreements, and
licensing and sub-licensing agreements.
Prior to entering law, Lenane was a
performing musician for over 10 years.
During that time, he worked in the music
industry at several record labels, including
RoadRunner Records and Zero Hour Records.
Lenane received his JD in 2002 from Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City,
where he was a member of the Moot Court
Honor Society and graduated Cum Laude. He is
admitted to practice in New York State and
the U.S. District Courts for the Southern
and Eastern Districts of New York. He
received his BA from Skidmore College.
Lenane lives and works in San Francisco.
Bob
Lefsetz
· The Lefsetz
Letter
Bob
Lefsetz is the author of "The
Lefsetz Letter." Famous for being
beholden to no one and speaking the
truth, Lefsetz addresses the issues
that are at the core of the music
business: downloading, copy
protection, pricing and the music
itself.
His
intense brilliance captivates
readers from Steven Tyler to Rick
Nielsen to Bryan Adams to Quincy
Jones to EVERYBODY who’s in the
music business.
Never
boring, always entertaining, Bob’s
insights are fueled by his stint as
an entertainment business attorney,
majordomo of Sanctuary Music’s
American division and consultancies
to major labels.
"The
Lefsetz Letter" has been publishing
for the past
20 years. First as hard copy,
most recently as an email newsletter
and now, for the first time, in blog
form.
Jim
Griffin
· Managing
Director / Co-Founder
OneHouse, LLC / Pho Group
Jim
Griffin is Managing Director of
OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the
future of music and entertainment
delivery, and works as a consultant
to absorb uncertainty about the
digital delivery of art.
In addition to serving as an agent
for constructive change in media and
technology, he is an author, serving
as a columnist for magazines, and is
on the boards of companies and
associations. He started and ran for
five years the technology department
at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen
he was an International
Representative for The Newspaper
Guild in Washington, D.C.
While at Geffen, Jim led a team that
in June of 1994 distributed the
first full-length commercial song
on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was
the first entertainment company to
install a web server, and Geffen
World was one of the first corporate
intranet sites. Geffen was named by
Network World in 1996 as one of the
world’s top 25 technology companies,
and one of only seven in the United
States.
Jim is co-founder of the Pho group.
Named after a bowl of Vietnamese
soup, Pho is an organization that
meets for discussion-oriented meals
in cities around the world,
electronically linked by the Pho
mailing list. Pho’s many thousands
of readers enjoy dialogue on the
digital delivery of art and the new
economy in music, movies, books and
all media.
Jim testified in July 2000 before
the Senate Judiciary Committee at
its oversight hearing on file
sharing and music licensing. He
regularly moderates video and
television shows on digital
entertainment. He is often a keynote
speaker or moderator at conferences
(Internet Summit, Giga Conference,
Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many
others) and lectures annually at
business schools (Harvard, USC,
UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as
an expert witness in digital
entertainment, and has presented
many Continuing Legal Education
courses.
In addition to work with music, his
expertise includes wireless work in
Europe, including at Nokia’s
Research Center in Helsinki,
Finland, and with numerous companies
in Finland and throughout Europe.
He’s moderated numerous panels on
wireless and given speeches on
wireless issues around the world,
ranging from music conferences to
parliament meetings in Europe. He is
a regular speaker at entertainment
industry events and corporate and
association meetings
Ken
Rutkowski
· Host &
President
KenRadio Broadcasting
Ken
Rutkowski is one of most
broadly-informed and connected
people in the media, entertainment
and technology (MET) market. A true
industry insider, Ken’s
relationships span senior managers
of leading technology companies to
studio executives; from small
software companies innovating the
next generation of MET
products/services to IT outsourcers
and consultants.
Part pundit, part matchmaker, part
strategist – Ken helps start-ups to
multi-national corporations
understand the trends shaping their
industries and connect with the
people that matter.
As pundit, Ken’s daily Internet and
radio talk show, World Tech
Round-Up, is a must-listen-to source
of inside information for over
186,000 Internet listeners in over
40 countries – regularly scooping
the major media and giving
perspective to emerging trends,
developments and industry maneuvers.
His Daily Tech Clicks newsletter and
IQ Report are distributed 5
days/week to the technology,
entertainment and business elite.
As matchmaker, Ken opens doors for
clients across the media,
entertainment and digital technology
landscape. In 2000, he founded METal,
a networking group of 100+ MET
industry influencers that meet for
breakfast and information sharing
each Saturday in Los Angeles.
Additionally, he co-hosts MET Salon,
one of Los Angeles’ premier
invitation-only networking events.
As strategist, Ken helps clients
utilize emerging technology
developments to create new business
models, identify revenue
opportunities and out-maneuver
competitors. Combining his deep
understanding of MET convergence
with an insider’s perspective of the
problems facing the industry today,
Ken crafts breakthrough strategies
that leverage innovations in the
digital economy. On an international
level, Ken works with countries such
as Finland, Australia and Holland –
helping them fortify their
technology outreach story and
strategy.
In his public role, Ken is a
founding member of the Streaming
Media Executive Committee and is on
the board of several media,
entertainment and technology
companies. He is a much-sought-after
speaker/moderator at conferences
around the world. He regularly
appears as a guest correspondent for
Fox 11 KTTV and Fox’s Good Day LA –
talking about everything from new
tech gadgets to important websites.
Brent
Muhle
· General Manager
Nettwerk Music Group
Brent
Muhle, General Manager for Nettwerk
Music Group, has been with the
Nettwerk family since 1998. With
over 15 years of experience in the
digital arena and a law degree from
California Western School of Law,
Muhle began as the Managing Partner
for Nettmedia, where he oversaw
client projects for BMG Online,
David Bowie, Universal Music Group
and more.
He
now works closely with Nettwerk CEO
Terry McBride in forming Nettwerk’s
digital strategy and emerging
technology adaptation. His vision is
instrumental in Nettwerk's support
of innovation and proof of concept
initiatives in digital distribution
and marketing, while maintaining a
fundamental respect for artists,
fan’s and consumers.
Leslie
Poole
· CEO Javien Digital Payment Solutions
Chief
Executive Officer, Javien Digital
Payment Solutions: On the forefront
of the online payment industry,
Leslie Poole joined microCreditCard
in 2000 and then successfully merged
it with Javien Digital Payment
Solutions, Inc., in 2001. Since then
he has led Javien in developing
e-commerce solutions for leading
companies in a variety of
industries. In the entertainment
industry specifically, digital music
providers have made significant
strides and Javien’s role in this
success is notable. The company’s
technology powers the digital
content sales for Ruckus Network,
iMesh and Trans World
Entertainment’s FYE Download Zone
among others. For over 15 years
Leslie Poole has made a career out
of leading ventures in both the
technology and financial industries.
Previously, Mr. Poole co-founded
Broad IP Networks, a networking
infrastructure company, and served
as the chief executive officer. He
has also held positions as the
senior vice president of sales and
marketing for Network Security
Technologies, Inc. and executive
director of The National Investment
Fund for Credit Unions, where he
grew assets under management from
$100 million to over $1 billion. Mr.
Poole sits on the Content Division
board of the Software and
Information Industry Association,
the Digital Media Committee at
American Business Media and the
board of Fort Belvoir Federal Credit
Union.
David
Oxenford
· Partner Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Mr.
Oxenford’s practice focuses on media
issues, representing broadcast
stations, financial institutions,
consulting firms, program providers,
trade associations, and others
involved in the industry. His
practice involves both transactional
and regulatory matters, including
counseling clients on issues
relating to the Internet. He
represents the International
Webcasters Association, and
represented 29 State Broadcast
Associations in filing comments
before the Copyright Office on the
issue of the applicability of
Digital Millennium Copyright Act to
broadcasters who stream their
signals.
He is a graduate of the College of
William and Mary, and received his
law degree, with distinction, from
Emory University.
Jürgen Jaron
·
CEO MAGIX AG
Jürgen
Jaron is the CEO and a founding
partner of MAGIX AG (www.magix.com),
a publicly traded company in the
German stock exchange.
Since 1993 MAGIX has developed
state-of-the-art technology for
designing, editing and archiving
digital photos, videos and music.
MAGIX' vision is to integrate
multimedia into everyday life for
easy use in personal communication.
In addition, MAGIX also offers
customized multimedia solutions as a
one-stop shop to business partners
such as online portals and hardware
manufacturers.
Measured by retail sales figures
MAGIX is the market leader in the
field of multimedia in Germany and
in the most important European
markets. In the USA the company is
one of the three most successful
market participants.
When the Company was legally
reorganized into a German stock
corporation in June 2001, Jürgen
Jaron became chairman of the MAGIX
AG Management Board. He also serves
as the managing director of MAGIX
AG's subsidiaries in France, Great
Britain and Italy.
Google singer
songwriter and the first name you’ll
find is Samantha Murphy. For the
past three years, she’s established
herself as not only a singer
songwriter, but the place to go to
hear other great singer
songwriters. With her popular
Podcast SMtv, Samantha features a
different artist from a different
city and venue each week as she
tours. She’s the founder of SMtv
Music LLC and
SMtvMusic.com. SMtv has
recently partnered with the
Intercollegiate Broadcasting System
to deliver the show and catalog of
royalty free music to their network
of 1,000 college stations.
Samantha’s debut CD,
somewhere between starving &
stardom, was chosen by Michael Ross
as one of his top 10 for the Village
Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop Poll for
2006. The debut has contributions
from an all star band consisting of
the rhythm section from Alanis
Morissette’s multi-platinum debut
Jagged Little Pill, Kanye West’s
Cellist and award winning mix
engineer Richard Oliver Furch
(Christina Aguilera/Usher/Pink).
Performing
professionally since she was six
years old, Samantha has worked with
Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald,
Five for Fighting, Kylie Minogue and
Erikah Badu as well as having
appeared on TV shows ranging from
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to
Australia’s Hey, Hey It’s Saturday.
Samantha was a staff
songwriter for Warner/Chappell for
four years and her songs have
appeared in film and television.
She has lectured and performed at
many colleges and conferences
including MEISA’s International
conference, Podcast Hotel, DIY
Convention, and Podtech at CES.
Bruce
Taylor
· VP,
Marketing & Public Relations SNOCAP
Bruce
Taylor is our Vice President of
Marketing and Public Relations.
Bruce is responsible for our
outbound marketing programs and
ensuring our brand, image, and
customer interactions are consistent
across products, partnerships and
experiences. He is also responsible
for directing our corporate
communications activities to drive
awareness and shape the reputation
of our brand. Bruce has over 15
years experience in marketing
strategy and program execution, and
was an early leader in developing
successful marketing efforts in the
area of e-commerce. Prior to joining
us, Bruce served as the Senior
Manager of Global Interactive
Marketing for Dolby Laboratories,
Inc., where he directed the
company's worldwide interactive
marketing programs, including a
global rebranding of the company’s
corporate website properties and
strategic planning for consumer
event promotions and sponsorships.
He previously played leadership
roles at Agency.com, an interactive
marketing and technology agency
owned by the Omnicom Group, and at
Personify, Inc., a provider of web
profiling and analytics software
whose clients included
Williams-Sonoma, Patagonia and Ofoto.
Bruce received an M.B.A. degree from
Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School and a
B.A. degree from Washington and Lee
University.
Russ
Crupnick
· VP / Sr. Industry
Analyst The NPD Group, Inc.
Russ
Crupnick provides expert media
commentary and executive-level
guidance, industry analysis and
overall strategic value to The
NPD Group's clients in the music
and film/video industries.
Steeped in the entertainment
sector, with more than twenty
years of experience in the
development, management and
application of consumer tracking
panels, Crupnick has appeared as
a commentator for broadcast news
outlets and has been extensively
quoted on industry trends in the
print media as well. He is also
a sought-after speaker at a host
of industry conferences and
trade shows. Crupnick has served
NPD as president of the
Behavioral Tracking business
unit, and as VP of Corporate New
Business Development. Prior to
NPD, he held several positions
for ACNielsen, including
VP/group director of the
Homescan Consumer Panel unit and
VP/director within Nielsen's
Category Management team.
Terry
McBride
· CEO & Founder Nettwerk Music Group
Terry
McBride is the CEO and one of three
founders of the Nettwerk Music
Group, which includes Nettwerk
Productions (Canada’s largest
independent record label), Nettwerk
Management (artist, DJ and producer
management), Nettwerk One
(publishing), and Artwerks (graphic
and fashion design). Founded in
Terry's apartment in 1984, Nettwerk
now has major corporate offices in
Vancouver, New York, London, Boston,
Nashville, Hamburg and Los Angeles.
Nettwerk Management exclusive
clients include such artists as
Avril Lavigne, Barenaked Ladies,
Dido, Stereophonics, Sarah McLachlan,
All Saints and Jamiroquai. Since its
inception, Nettwerk has released
over 400 different albums with
worldwide sales in excess of 100
million albums. Most recently,
Terry’s attentions have focused on
advances in digital technology,
intellectual property rights and the
future of music distribution.
Cory
Llewellyn
· VP, Digital Media
Marketing & Promotion
Epic Records
Cory joined Epic Records in 2000 as Director, New Media/Marketing. During his tenure with Epic he has introduced a wide variety of innovative initiatives, including a program that facilitated the placement of third-party advertisements and sponsorships on Epic's online properties. He also has played a key role in building the label's online social network communities through its artist sites as well overseeing the online marketing strategies for the label. Cory began his career in 1989 as a sales manager for The Wall music retail chain and started his online career in 1995 as the web marketing manager for PolyGram Group Distribution. He then moved on to head up Online Marketing at Island DefJam before going to Epic Records.
Dave
Ulmer
· Sr. Director,
Entertainment Products
Motorola Media Solutions
Dave Ulmer is Motorola’s Sr.
Director, Entertainment
Products, defining and
promoting seamlessly mobile
media devices and
experiences. A digital media
pioneer, Dave has held a
variety of executive roles
with wireless, hardware, and
software companies,
including running the
world’s leading CD-Recording
software company and
initiating its spinout as
the original founder of
Roxio and Napster. Dave
serves as board director and
vice-chairman of the Mobile
Entertainment Forum and has
a long history of
championing and chaperoning
leading edge products into
mainstream consumer markets.
David
Marcus
· SVP, Music
Ticketmaster
David Marcus is Vice
President, Music at
Ticketmaster, the world’s
leading ticketing company.
Mr. Marcus is responsible
for developing and deploying
unique platforms and
partnerships that help its
concert clients sell more
tickets, capture market
value and connect artists
with their fans.
Prior to joining
Ticketmaster in 2005, Mr.
Marcus served as Founder and
Managing Director for Treble
Music Marketing, a
consultancy that provided
business and marketing
development services to
clients including Yahoo!
Music, Musicmatch, AOL/MusicNow
and Jeff McClusky &
Associates, among others.
Prior to that, he held the
post of Vice President of
Business Development and
Legal Affairs for RadioWave,
a Motorola venture that
provided interactive
technologies to broadcast
radio and new media
companies. Mr. Marcus’
legal experience includes
his practice with the
Entertainment & Intellectual
Property Group in Chicago,
and the law firm O’Melveny &
Myers in Los Angeles,
California.
Mr. Marcus earned a JD from
Boalt Hall School of Law at
the University of California
at Berkeley, and a BS in
Finance from the University
of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He is a
past Chair of the Chicago
Bar Association’s
Entertainment Committee,
past Council Member for Arts
4 Learning, a not-for-profit
organization that connects
Chicago Public Schools
teachers with exemplary
arts-in-education programs,
and a Governor on
Steppenwolf Theater’s
Auxiliary Council.
David Marcus is based in
Ticketmaster’s West
Hollywood, California
corporate headquarters.
Les
Watkins
· VP, Bus. Affairs &
Bus. Development Music Reports, Inc.
Les Watkins is Vice
President of Business
Affairs & Business
Development at MRI. He is
responsible for identifying
new business opportunities
and cultivating and
developing client
relationships and strategic
alliances. Mr. Watkins is
also charged with the
negotiation and execution of
client service agreements as
well as licenses with the
music publishing, artist and
label communities.
Mr. Watkins is a music
industry lawyer with many
years of transactional
deal-making experience as a
record label executive,
artist lawyer and artist
manager. He served in the
Business Affairs and Law
Departments of Sony Music
Entertainment, in New York
and Los Angeles, and at
Sony's new media ventures
group, 550 Digital Media
Ventures.
Prior to joining MRI he was
in private practice for
preeminent artist
representation law firms,
such as King Holmes Paterno
& Berliner in Los Angeles.
Mr. Watkins has published
articles in scholarly legal
journals on "The Digital
Performance Right In Sound
Recordings Act Of 1995" (the
precursor to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act)
and is a frequent panelist
at industry conferences and
law schools focused on
digital music licensing and
payment models. He is a 1989
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
the University Of Georgia
and a 1996 graduate of the
University Of Georgia School
of Law.
John
Boyle
· Owner & President
The BAM Group
After marketing stints at
record companies and working
for Sanctuary Music Group,
John is now running his own
management firm. John
founded the SnoCore Tour and
Extreme Consulting and still
runs them from his Los
Angeles office. Currently,
he manages Xzibit,
Blackalicious, Alien Ant
Farm and many other artists.
Trey
Shelton
· Founder & CEO Music Interactive
Trey Shelton founded Music
Interactive in 2005 with the
express purpose of creating
new opportunities to bring
together the advertising and
music worlds. The company's
premiere product Media
Promoter is an advertising
plug-in that delivers a
media file to a user who
completes a marketing
action. With clients
including Dodge, Hyundai,
and Ray-Ban as well
as a partnership with MySpace, Music Interactive's
promotions consistently
deliver measurable results
improving brand marketing
campaigns. These campaigns
have also created a vital
new revenue source and
promotional outlet for the
record labels and bands
involved.
Trey Shelton’s career
encompasses eight years of
entertainment and finance
experience, an astute
marketing mentality, and a
tenacious entrepreneurial
spirit. In the entertainment
world, he has worked for
Sony Music Nashville,
coordinated music for
several Miramax films, and
ran his own artist
management firm TSM
Entertainment. During the
technology revolution,
Shelton also served as an
analyst for ITU Ventures.
Shelton graduated from
Vanderbilt University with a
B.A. in Communications.
Ian
Rogers
· VP & GM
Yahoo! Music
As General Manager of Yahoo!
Music, Ian Rogers leads the
continued growth and
development of the world’s
#1 online music site.
Rogers oversees strategy for
the site’s products and
services such as Yahoo!
Music Unlimited and
LAUNCHcast Radio as well as
key partnerships and
original content and
programming.
Ian Rogers joined Yahoo! in
2003 with the company’s
acquisition of Mediacode.
Before joining the Yahoo!
team, Rogers was founder,
president and CTO of
Mediacode, a media software
developer. In his role at
Yahoo!, he is responsible
for the growth and continued
development of Yahoo! Music
as a compelling, global
music destination for
consumers, record labels and
advertisers.
Rogers has been building
digital media applications
since 1992. He created the
second-ever, music-related
Web site and built many of
the original promotional
sites for the music and
movie industry. He was CTO
at rVision, one of the first
Web design firms until 1998,
then was part of Nullsoft,
an early leader in the
digital music revolution and
makers of Winamp, SHOUTcast,
and Gnutella. Rogers was
the President of New Media
for the Beastie Boys' record
label and lifestyle brand
Grand Royal, where he was
responsible for the first
same day digital/physical
album release.
Since 2003, Rogers has
served as Director and then
VP of Product Development
for Yahoo! Music, overseeing
the development of the
world's #1 Music Web site,
Music.Yahoo.com as well as
Yahoo! Music Unlimited,
Yahoo!'s unlimited music
subscription service.
Daren
Tsui
· CEO & Co-Founder
mSpot
Daren Tsui is the CEO and
co-founder of mSpot, a
pioneer in mobile multimedia
entertainment. Tsui founded
the company in 2004 with the
goal of transforming mobile
phones into a medium for
rich multimedia
entertainment that the
masses will embrace. Tsui
led mSpot’s charge to be the
first mobile entertainment
service in North America to
stream a “full format” radio
service including news,
sports, finance, talk and
music channels as well as
the first to stream
full-length feature films to
mobile phones. Today with
more than one million paying
subscribers, mSpot has
launched four services
ranging from radio, music
and movies to sports. A
veteran of four start-ups,
Daren was most recently
President and co-founder of
SkyGo, a global mobile
marketing technology company
providing integrated brand
and direct marketing
services sold to Enpocket in
2003.
Mike
Rich
· SVP & GM
AOL Entertainment & AOL Black Voices
Mike Rich joined AOL in
early 2001 as executive
programming director
responsible for the
editorial voice of AOL
Music, Winamp, Netscape
Music, CompuServe Music
and AIM Music. He then
advanced to vice
president of product
integration, where he
focused on developing
and integrating tools to
enhance programming for
AOL’s entertainment
properties, as well as
News, Sports, Coaches
and Black Voices. In
addition, Rich led
content management
operations for AOL’s
Emmy-Award winning Live
8 broadcast;
he co-created AOL
Music’s Top 11 countdown
show and developed AOL
Music’s search
experience. Rich’s role
then expanded to serve
as vice
president of
AOL programming, products
and operation leading
the
efforts of enhancing the
company’s publishing
platforms and managing
the enhancement of AOL’s
Web 2.0 programming
experiences.
In 2007, Rich was
promoted to senior vice
president and general
manager of AOL
Entertainment and AOL
Black Voices. In this
role, he spearheads the
programming, products
and overall business
strategies for AOL’s
central entertainment
properties including
Music, Radio, Television
and Moviefone.
Additionally, he
oversees the editorial
and business sides of
the leading Web site for
African American news,
culture and community.
Prior to joining AOL,
Rich was vice president
of internet media at
Burly Bear Network,
Loren Michaels’ college
television network. He
also served as executive
producer at Get Music,
LLC, an online music
company financed by
BMG/Universal Music
Group. He was also a
principal in CIA Music
Management.
A
graduate of Temple
University, Rich holds a
BA in Communications.
He currently resides in
New York City with his
wife Melissa and their
daughter Sophie.
Adam
Sexton
· Chief Marketing
Officer
Groove Mobile
Adam Sexton has over 14
years of experience in
marketing and management
in the music and
technology industries.
In 2000, Sexton was
named by Advertising Age
as one of the Top 100
Marketing Executives in
the United States. Prior
to joining Groove
Mobile, Sexton was the
VP of Marketing for the
Entertainment Technology
Group at Macrovision.
Earlier in his career he
was Vice President of
Product Management at
Arista Records, where he
was responsible for the
marketing of all of
Arista's pop and rock
artists, including
Santana, Sarah McLachlan,
Dido, and Whitney
Houston, among many
others. Sexton held
previous executive roles
at Supertracks, EMI and
BMG International.
Sexton
holds an undergraduate
degree from Harvard
College, and an MBA in
marketing and management
from Columbia Business
School.
Sara
Nelson
· Associate Media
Director
Carat Fusion
As a Associate Media
Director at Carat on the
Hyundai account, Sara
Nelson is responsible
for managing national
planning and buying
within the digital media
space to reach client
objectives including:
In-Market initatives as
well as Integration
across print, broadcast,
video on demand, events,
wireless, and
interactive. Over the
past 6+ years, Sara has
worked on both the
automotive sales side
and national Toyota
account at Saatchi &
Saatchi LA.
Maurice
Russell
· VP, Bus. Affairs &
Licensing
Harry Fox Agency
Maurice A. Russell is
the Vice President of
Licensing and Label
Relations, for the Harry
Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA).
Russell oversees the HFA
Licensing Department as
well as the Label
Specialist Program,
which seeks to
strengthen relationships
with key music company
personnel to identify
recording project
priorities and provide
faster, more accurate
licensing and collection
services for the benefit
of the distribution
companies and HFA’s
affiliated music
publishers. He reports
directly to Michael
Simon, HFA’s Senior Vice
President Business
Affairs, General Counsel
and Chief Strategic
Officer.
Russell has broad-based
entertainment industry
and distribution
experience. Before
joining HFA in 2002,
Russell was the founder
and CEO of Machine
Enterprises Inc., where
he provided commercial
artist management and
business consulting
services to creative
enterprises in the
media, entertainment and
design fields. In this
capacity, he also
advised firms on
structuring operations
and new business
development strategies.
Prior to that, Russell
was Vice President and
General Manager of
Razorfish Studios, Inc.,
where he oversaw the
fast-growing start-up’s
daily operations. In
this role, Russell
implemented corporate
operations, including
finance and accounting,
business affairs, human
resources and facilities
and integrated the
acquisitions of three
entertainment companies.
Russell came to
Razorfish Studios from
Red Ant Entertainment,
where he was the Senior
Director, Business
Development and
Licensing, heading up
the special products and
licensing department.
His responsibilities
included marketing
recording artists and
music to film and
television productions,
negotiating and drafting
recording agreements and
licensing of music for
online, film,
television, compilation
albums and all other
secondary market
exploitations. Before
that, he was a Senior
Director, Contract
Administration at
Polygram Records,
responsible for
supervising the
administration of over
250 recording, license
and video agreements, as
well as tracking
options, product
delivery and financial
obligations.
Russell holds a M.B.A.
degree from New York
University’s Stern
School of Business
Administration and a
B.A. from Columbia
College, Columbia
University.
Michael
Mangia
· Singer Songwriter /
Founder
Orphan Records
Los Angeles-based singer
songwriter, Michael
Mangia, started Orphan
Records in 2006 after
releasing his third
studio album, The
Invisible Wall.
Dissatisfied with hazy
prospects embodied by
the major label system,
Michael forged ahead
with an inspiration to
create a haven and
platform for artists
like himself
--independent minded
do-it-your- selfers
needing a bit of
organizational and moral
support. Managed by a
family of
artists/musicians,
Orphan Records fosters
artistic development
through personal
attention, close
community, and the
aggressive application
of new technologies to
maximize opportunities
presented by the
ever-changing music
industry.
Christopher
Levy
· CEO
BUYDRM
Christopher
Levy is regarded as one
of the world's experts
in Digital Rights
Management technologies
and the use of DRM to
market, monetize and
monitor digital media
content. As a
high-profile DRM
evangelist, Levy
regularly speaks and
writes about the
technology and was
recently nominated to be
a Digital Media MVP
[Microsoft Valued
Professional] by
Microsoft with a
specific focus on DRM.
He is currently the CEO
and Founder of BuyDRM, a
pay-media services
provider whose flagship
product KeyOS is in use
by a wide variety of
content owners and
licensees. BuyDRM is a
Microsoft Preferred DRM
Provider and is
privately held with
offices in Austin, Los
Angeles and New York and
development offices
in Eastern Europe.
Levy began his career in
Digital Media in 1994
when he launched a
WebCast services company
in Austin, Texas
providing on-site
production and encoding
technology to Mark
Cuban's AudioNet and
several Content Delivery
Networks. After selling
the company, ClickHear
Productions, to CMGI in
1999, Levy co-invented
and led to market "streamOS",
the industry's first
Streaming Media Overlay
System delivering
Streaming Media across
multiple Content
Delivery Networks.
streamOS was used by MSN
to webcast Madonna to 9
Million viewers making
it the largest webcast
in history until 2005's
Live 8 Webcast.
Levy has provided
Digital Media Vision to
a top-shelf list of
clients including Casbah
Productions LLC
[Responsible for Live 8
and the AOL/XM Radio/AEG
joint-venture Network
Live] Interscope
Records, IslandDefJam
Records, Anheuser-Busch,
NFL Films, Grand Royal
Records, Capitol
Records, The Museum of
Television and Radio,
Microsoft, Intel and
others. Levy is a
featured industry writer
and speaker and has been
featured in print and
online with ABCNews.com,
StreamingMedia.com,
eContent Magazine,
Klixxx Magazine, and
others and has spoken
at DRM Strategies,
Jupiter's Plug.In, NAB,
NATPE, Streaming Media
East and West, Digital
Hollywood, Content
World, Internext/IA2000,
EAT’M, South By
Southwest and the
iHollywood Forum.
Jared
Hoffman
· President Knitting Factory Entertainment
Jared Hoffman is leading
the transformation of
Knitting Factory
Entertainment from a
treasured New
York/Hollywood cultural
icon into a leading
national force in the
development and
presentation of new and
emerging talent. With
last year’s acquisition
of Bravo Entertainment,
the Knitting Factory
catapulted into the
ranks of the nation’s
top independent concert
and tour promoters with
concert operations
across 17 states and
wholly owned venues in
New York, Los Angeles,
Boise, ID, and Spokane,
WA. KFE expects to
enhance its secondary
market growth with
expansion into several
new American cities per
year.
Knitting Factory’s
digital initiatives
continue to make waves:
The Knitting Factory
venues recently became
the first in the US to
offer ticketing by text
message across the
breadth of their
calendars. Knitting
Factory Digital
Services, announced in
April, brought a
state-of-the-art HD
content capture system
online for the
acquisition of video
concert content in
partnership with a
diverse array of web
2.0, broadcast, and
record label partners.
Weekly audio broadcasts
‘Live From The Knitting
Factory’ are currently
broadcast every Friday
night on XM Satellite
Radio’s XMU Channel 43.
Hoffman joined the
Knitting Factory
Entertainment in 2002
when the company
acquired the music label
he founded in 1989 -
Instinct Records Label
Group. At Instinct,
Hoffman signed and
launched the career of a
then-unknown artist by
the name of Moby. Under
Jared’s guidance,
Instinct became highly
regarded for: bringing
the best of the rave,
acid jazz and trip hop
eras to the U.S.; and
releasing albums by The
Creatures (Siouxsie &
Budgie of The Banshees),
Kirsty MacColl, DJ Krush
and Rasputina, among
many others. Prior to
Instinct, Hoffman worked
in management consulting
and financial
technology, while
pursuing his love of
music moonlighting as a
journalist, DJ, and rock
’n’ roller.
A native of New York
City, Jared holds an MBA
from Columbia University
Business School and a
Bachelor’s degree from
Harvard College.
Matthew
J. DeFilippis,
Vice President, New Media & Technology
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
(ASCAP)
Matt has been a key
person in ASCAP’s
Internet and new media
efforts since the advent
of the Internet as a
music performance medium
in the early 1990’s.
After joining ASCAP as a
paralegal in 1993, he
was a founding member of
ASCAP’s New Media &
Technology Department.
He was a central
participant in the
introduction of the
industry’s first
Internet performance
license in 1995 and
received ASCAP’s
Exceptional Service
Award in 1996. In
1998, Matt departed
ASCAP, but not the music
licensing family, when
he joined the National
Music Publishers’
Association (NMPA) and
its licensing
subsidiary, The Harry
Fox Agency (HFA), as its
Strategic Planning
Coordinator. Since
returning to ASCAP in
2001 as Director of New
Media & Technology, Matt
has overseen the
department’s Internet
licensing operations and
continues to lead ASCAP
to more new license
opportunities, most
recently in the wireless
music marketplace. He
was promoted to Vice
President in 2006. Matt
has a B.A. from Columbia
University in New York
City.
Mark
Strangio
· Director, Marketing PeerApp
Mark Strangio is
responsible for product
marketing and public
relations at PeerApp.
He has over 25 years of
marketing and business
development experience
with communications and
internet companies.
Mark has extensive
experience with the
current technical,
legal, financial and
legislative issues
surrounding the delivery
of P2P music and video
files over the Internet.
PeerApp and its service
provider customers are
exploring innovative
approaches for
monetizing P2P
applications.
PeerApp is a
manufacturer of
infrastructure systems
that provide content
acceleration and caching
of P2P music and video
files. PeerApp’s
systems are deployed by
Internet Service
Providers improve their
brand and enhance
subscriber
experience. PeerApp
is working with numerous
Service Providers
throughout the world to
help make the Internet
capable of handling and
monetizing the explosive
growth in P2P traffic.
Roger
Scadron
· Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Mr. Scadron is a
Managing
Director in the
Communications,
Media &
Entertainment
Group.He
specializes in
providing
business
analytics, due
diligence
advisory and
forensic
investigations.
Roger has more
than 25 years of
industry
experience, and
worked for Price
Waterhouse and
PricewaterhouseCoopers
(the predecessor
firm to FTI) as
a Director in
the Financial
Advisory
Services group.
In recent years
he has become an
expert in
digital
communications
transmission and
the convergence
of traditional
telecommunications,
media and
entertainment.
He has published
extensively on
matters of
telecommunications
and
entertainment
industry
convergence, and
on the impact of
Voice Over
Internet
Protocol and
packet switching
on both wireless
and wire line
carriers and on
entertainment
content
companies.
Roger heads the
Digital Revenue
Assurance
practice
providing
validation to
content
providers of
downloads, down
streams, and
subscriptions
sold by digital
retailers and
aggregators.
Clients include
major record
labels needing
to validate the
accuracy of
reported revenue
when relying on
DRM logs and
multi-GB sized
data records.Since
1994 Mr. Scadron
has performed
business
assessments and
due diligence
assurance for
major
international
financial
institutions,
investors, and
hedge funds that
require
sensitive
financial
information
about target
companies in the
communications
and media
industry.Companies
assessedrange
from CLEC’s,
mobile wireless,
paging, long
distance, and
fiber optic
carriers, and
cable MSO’s
throughout the
Americas.
Mr. Scadron
is particularly
familiar with
monthly
recurrent
revenue and
subscriberbased
business models.In
addition, he
has lead as well
as participated
in the placement
of debt and
equity as well
of the sale of
dozens of
companies in
telecommunications
and in other
industries
including during
n-court/bankruptcy
proceedings and
out-of-court
distressed and
healthy company
situations.Companies
include a
consumer CLEC
Supra Telecom,
messaging
company Network
Services, frame
relay and
broadband
provider New
Edge Networks,
Weblink
Wireless, a
middle sized
CLEC, a rural
cable operator,
and other
telecom
companies; in
addition to
companies in the
general economy
including
Hamburger Hamlet
Restaurants,
Murdock
Industries and
others.
Roger earned an
MBA in Finance
from the Wharton
School, and
graduated from
the University
of California,
Los Angeles with
honors.Raised in
the Republic of
Panama and in
Los Angeles,
California he is
fluent in
Spanish and
conversant in
Portuguese.
Aaron
Grosky
· President
Control Room
As President of
Control Room, Aaron
Grosky refines the
company’s long-term
strategic vision,
identifies the
company’s overall
music programming,
production and
distribution
strategies, and
serves as primary
liaison with key
content distributors
including MSN,
MediaFlo, and
MyNetwork TV, as
well as artist
management and
labels.
Previously, as
Executive Vice
President of Music
Programming and
Production for
Control Room, Grosky
identified and
executed the
company’s long-term
programming strategy
and led all Control
Room productions.
Leveraging
long-standing
relationships with
artists, managers
and labels, Grosky
identified key
opportunities with
the world’s leading
artists, negotiated
deal terms with
management and
labels to maximize
the offering for a
variety of
distribution
partners, and
oversaw all aspects
of production to
ensure the highest
quality end product
for both artists and
distribution
partners.
In
addition to his role
at Control Room,
Grosky was tapped to
serve as Global
Producer of Talent
and Programming for
Live Earth,
responsible for
securing 150 top
artists and creating
the programming
strategy for the
nine stages around
the world during the
24-hour broadcast
across television,
broadband, radio and
wireless networks.
Prior
to his role at
Control Room and
Live Earth,
Grosky spent
10 years in the
music and technology
industries. He
served as the head
of Artist, Label
Relations and
Programming for
Virgin Digital,
where
he
helped define a
programming voice,
secure artist and
label relationships,
and implement
systems for the
digital music
service in the US
and Europe.
Previously,
Grosky
founded
Shift, Inc, a
media encoding and
entertainment
networking services
company, and held
senior positions at
RioPort where
he
oversaw client
acquisitions, and
Almo Sounds
where
he
managed digital
initiatives.
Grosky
started
his
career as a regional
sales and marketing
rep for
Geffen Records
in Boston.
Allan Klepfisz
· CEO & Chairman Qtrax /
Brilliant Technologies
Allan Klepfisz
is CEO and Chairman of Qtrax, the world’s first
legal and free peer-to-peer music service, and its
parent company, Brilliant Technologies Corporation.
Brilliant is a publicly traded holding company
devoted to the research and development of
innovative, proprietary technologies. In addition
to being the visionary behind Qtrax and its
pioneering, ad-supported P2P model, Mr. Klepfisz is
a well regarded serial entrepreneur known for being
ahead of the curve in emerging technologies.
Prior to founding
Brilliant, Mr. Klepfisz established Advantage
Australia Group Pty Ltd., where he serves as its
executive chairman. Under Mr. Klepfisz's
stewardship, Advantage Australia Group has attracted
the participation of many of Australia's largest
corporations, as well as praise from all the major
Australian political parties and unions in a rare
display of political consensus. Allan is recognized
in the Australian business community as a highly
innovative marketing strategist and has extensive
experience in establishing new ventures in areas as
diverse as the restaurant, textile, chemical and
marketing industries.
Dave
Jaworski
· CEO
Passalong Networks
As founder and CEO
of PassAlong
Networks, Dave
Jaworski is
responsible for
ensuring the company
offers the best
possible experience
to the consumer and
the richest media
platform to its
business customers.
This involves
setting the
technical and
strategic vision for
the company while
leading the
day-to-day
operations.
Jaworski spent the
last 20 years in
various management
positions for
technology companies
ranging from
start-ups to
multibillion-dollar
corporations.
Early in his career,
Jaworski put his
computer science
degree to good use
at a pre-public
Microsoft where he
spent eight years,
receiving the first
Bill Gates
Chairman’s Award for
Excellence. At
Microsoft, Jaworski
was responsible for
80 percent of the
U.S. retail sales
budget as well as
heading up U.S.
sales operations and
Microsoft
University. He also
ran technical teams,
including all U.S.
systems engineer
training and
development, and
developed
international
experience while
running national
sales at Microsoft
Canada.
Jaworski went on to
launch several
successful software
companies and to
head a technology
team that
architected and
implemented an
e-business platform
for the sale of
music and management
of content on the
Internet.
In addition to his
tech experience,
Jaworski has held
on-air broadcast
positions with AM
and FM stations and
has extensive
production
experience.
Thomas
Hesse · President, Global Digital Business & U.S. Sales
Sony BMG Music
Entertainment
Thomas Hesse was
named President,
Global Digital
Business, SONY BMG
MUSIC
ENTERTAINMENT upon
the completion of
the merger of SONY
Music and BMG in
2004, and in January
of 2007 he
assumed the additional
responsibility for
U.S. Sales. Mr.
Hesse is based in
New York.
As President, Global
Digital Business &
U.S. Sales, SONY BMG
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT,
Mr. Hesse oversees
the Global Digital
Business operating
group, which
develops the
company’s digital
revenues worldwide,
as well as all
aspects of the U.S.
sales division.
From 2002 to 2004,
Mr. Hesse served as
BMG's Chief
Strategic
Officer. During this
time, he was responsible
for mergers and
acquisitions and
business
development, as well
as
for directing BMG's
digital business and
new technology
initiatives.
Prior to joining
BMG, he was
Executive Vice
President and Head
of Corporate
Strategy at
Bertelsmann AG in
Guetersloh, Germany.
Mr. Hesse had
previously held a
number of executive
positions at the
company's television
division RTL,
including Secretary
General of RTL
Television,
Germany’s largest
commercial
broadcaster, where
he ran the network’s
program acquisition
and distribution
groups, and CEO of
RTL NEW MEDIA, where
he built up the
company's internet
and digital
television
activities as well
as other ancillary
businesses. He began
his career in media
and entertainment as
a corporate
consultant at
McKinsey & Company,
where he focused on
Media and Corporate
Finance.
He holds a BA and
MA in Philosophy and
Economics from
Oxford University,
an MSc in
Economics from
London School of
Economics and
a Doctorate in
Finance from St.
Gallen University,
Switzerland. He
studied as a concert
pianist at the
Mozarteum in
Salzburg and the
Hochschule fuer
Musik in Duesseldorf,
Germany.
Owen
Sloane, Partner & Chair, Entertainment & New Media Group
Berger Kahn
Owen
J. Sloane is a
Principal in Berger
Kahn's Los Angeles
office and Co-Chair
of the firm's
Entertainment &
Media Group. Mr.
Sloane has over 35
years experience
representing some of
the world’s most
successful talent in
the music and
entertainment
industries. He
handles a wide range
of sophisticated and
complex music
industry
transactions for
recording and
touring artists,
songwriters, and
record companies. He
has negotiated all
forms of talent
contracts, recording
agreements,
songwriting and
publishing
agreements,
distribution
agreements, music
licensing,
sponsorship and song
placement
agreements,
merchandising and
touring agreements,
and major live
events. Mr. Sloane
also represents
artists, promoters,
producers and
directors in the
film and television
industries and
frequently serves as
an expert witness
and litigation
consultant. Mr.
Sloane has been
selected by his
peers as one of
Southern
California's "Super
Lawyers."
Mr.
Sloane is credited
with negotiating
some of the earliest
agreements
pertaining to the
Internet, ring
tones, video
satellite delivery,
mobile
entertainment,
broadband and
wireless. He is a
frequent speaker at
leading music
industry events and
has been featured in
print and online
with Billboard,
Music Connection, LA
Times, NY Times,
Wall St. Journal,
Reuters, amongst
others.
Some
of Mr. Sloane's
current clients
include Rob Thomas,
Matchbox 20, Chris
Daughtry, Pink
Spiders, Suzanne
Vega, Frank Zappa
Estate, Steve
Winwood, Slightly
Stoopid, Chester
French, and the Jay
Livingston Catalog.
Eric
Garland, CEO
BigChampagne
Eric Garland is
co-founder and
Chief Executive
Officer of
BigChampagne
Media
Measurement, a
privately-held
technology and
market research
company
specializing in
online media.
Garland is
recognized as
one of the
industry's
leading
authorities on
the intersection
of popular
entertainment
and technology.
His report in
2003 to the
California State
Senate was the
basis of the
recent
Associated Press
story "Analyst:
Internet
file-sharing
bigger than
record
business." Each
year, Garland
contributes data
and analysis to
the OECD
(Organization
for Economic
Co-operation and
Development)
flagship
publication "IT
Outlook." His
advisory board
membership
includes the
digital
initiative of
the Recording
Academy (The
Grammys), where
he has served
alongside
artists Kelly
Clarkson and
Kanye West.
Garland was
formally
recognized for
his outstanding
contribution to
the Recording
Academy in
2007.
Garland's
commentary
appears in the
media
frequently, and
his remarks can
be found often
in the pages of
The New York
Times, The Wall
Street Journal,
and USA Today.
Garland has
provided
information and
insight into
online music to
publications
including Time,
Newsweek,
BusinessWeek and
Fortune. He has
been featured on
Nightline, Good
Morning America
and National
Public Radio as
a digital music
pundit, and is a
regular guest on
Los Angeles talk
radio 97.1 KLSX
in that
capacity. Most
recently, he has
been a repeat
guest lecturer
at UCLA and USC
Annenberg School
for
Communication,
speaking on the
impact of new
technologies on
entertainment
businesses.
In October of
2003, WIRED
magazine
anointed
BigChampagne the
Nielsen
television
ratings of
online music.
BigChampagne
pioneered the
concept of
tracking the
music
downloading
phenomenon,
starting with
the popular
Napster
community, and
is today an
industry
standard
research tool.
BigChampagne's
partners and
subscribers
include
MTV/Viacom,
Clear Channel
Radio, all of
the major record
labels, as well
as music
retailers,
artists,
managers and
other music
industry
professionals.
BigChampagne's
chart
syndication
partners include
Entertainment
Weekly and E!
Entertainment
Television.
Before
co-founding
BigChampagne in
1999, Garland
was an associate
with global
management
consulting firm
Towers Perrin in
the
Communication
and Measurement
practice where,
according to
WIRED, "he spent
much of his
twenties dashing
through airports
and hotel
restaurants
telling people
how to run their
businesses."
David
Wright, Director of Product Management
Speakerheart
David Wright is
Product Manager of
Speakerheart, an
online platform that
enables artists to
seamlessly upload,
promote and sell
their digital music.
Speakerheart is
designed to showcase
artists’ creativity
in an open, flexible
format complete with
user-determined,
variable pricing,
fair compensation
and an intuitive
interface that
enables everyone to
easily track and
showcase music they
love. His
responsibilities
include managing the
product’s overall
vision and
development,
encouraging
partnership
opportunities and
overseeing strategic
marketing
initiatives.
Speakerheart is a
service offering
from PassAlong
Networks, for which
Wright formerly
coordinated public
relations, event
management,
branding, market
research and market
analysis. Himself a
songwriter and
musician, Wright is
intently focused on
creating an
ecosystem for the
expression,
promotion and
exchange of media
that is mutually
beneficial for both
creator and
end-consumer. Wright
is a graduate of
Belmont University
and currently serves
on its Public
Relations Advisory
Board.
Ken
Lombard, President
Starbucks Entertainment
Kenneth (Ken)
Lombard joined
Starbucks in the
position of
president, Starbucks
Entertainment where
he provides the
vision and strategy
for Starbucks
entertainment
initiatives. In just
three years with the
company, Lombard has
presided over an
astonishing slate of
achievements in
music, film and
literature,
fulfilling the
Starbucks mission of
becoming the “third
place,” as well as
establishing the
brand as an
innovative channel
for the promotion
and distribution of
entertainment.
Under Lombard’s
leadership,
Starbucks has
enjoyed remarkable
success across every
entertainment
platform. In music,
unit CD sales in
company-owned
Starbucks increased
more than 200
percent during the
first two years of
Lombard’s tenure. In
March 2007, Lombard
led the charge for
Starbucks innovative
partnership with
Concord Music Group
in the formation of
Hear Music, a new
music label that
will work directly
with artists, both
emerging and
established, to
create a more
energized music
buying environment
and help connect
artists with the
widest possible
audience. Lombard
was instrumental in
landing Paul
McCartney as the
first artist to
appear on the Hear
Music label.
Lombard spearheaded
the national launch
of the Starbucks
Hear Music™
Coffeehouses,
featuring the Hear
Music™ media bars,
which allow
customers to easily
sample and burn
songs to CDs. In
2004, Lombard helped
launch the Starbucks
Hear Music™ Channel
75 on XM Satellite
Radio. Other
phenomenal successes
include the
Starbucks Hear
Music/Concord
Records co-marketed
and co-released CD,
Ray Charles’ “Genius
Loves Company,”
winner of eight
GRAMMY® Awards,
including Record of
the Year and Album
of the Year; the
first-ever
simultaneous global
release of the
Starbucks Hear
Music/Hancock
Music/Vector
Recordings
co-marketed and
co-released CD,
Herbie Hancock’s
“Possibilities,”nominated for
two GRAMMY® Awards
in 2006; and another
Starbucks Hear
Music/Concord
Records co-venture,
Sergio Mendes’
“Timeless,”
was nominated for
three Latin GRAMMY®
Awards, including
Record of the Year
in 2006.
In film, Lombard led
the Starbucks
partnership with
Lionsgate to market
and distribute
“Akeelahand
the Bee.” In
literature, Lombard
championed Starbucks
first foray into
book sales by
offering Mitch
Albom’s national
best-seller For
One More Day to
customers at
Starbucks locations
across the U.S. That
success was followed
up with its second
offering, A Long
Way Gone, by
first time author,
Ishmael Beah, a book
that achieved both
critical and
commercial success,
selling more than
80,000 copies at
Starbucks locations
alone.
With Lombard at its
helm, Starbucks
Entertainment
partnered with Apple
to offer the
Starbucks Hear Music
catalog on the
iTunes store via a
separate Starbucks
Entertainment page
within iTunes. This
innovative alliance
marked the first
time Apple allowed
editorial guidance
and content
developed by a
partner outside of
Apple to appear
within the iTunes
store.
Prior to joining
Starbucks, Lombard
served as President
of Johnson
Development
Corporation (JDC)
from its inception
in 1992. As
President, Lombard
helped the company
fulfill its mission
to become one of the
nation’s foremost
urban development
companies by
bringing
entertainment
complexes,
coffeehouses,
restaurants and
retail centers to
underserved
communities while
providing jobs for
local residents, and
employing local
minority contractors
and service vendors.
In this role,
Lombard became
intimately familiar
with Starbucks
through Urban
Coffee
Opportunities, LLC
(UCO), a partnership
formed in February
1998, between JDC
and Starbucks to
develop Starbucks
retail stores.
Currently, there are
more than 100 UCO
stores across the
United States in
locations including
Los Angeles, New
York, Seattle,
Chicago, Detroit,
Atlanta, San Diego
and Washington,
D.C.
While at JDC,
Lombard negotiated
joint-venture
relationships with
Loews Cineplex
Entertainment (Magic
Johnson Theatres),
T.G.I. Friday’s
(Magic Johnson's
T.G.I. Friday’s),
Canyon Johnson Urban
Fund, Johnson
MacFarlane Urban
Partners and
Washington Mutual
Bank.
As President of JDC,
Lombard was
presented with the
City of Angels
Corporate Award at
the Getty House
Foundation’s 9th
Annual City of
Angels Awards
Ceremony. He was
also the recipient
of the 2002
Community Leadership
Award from the Los
Angeles Business
Journal. Lombard
formerly served as a
Los Angeles Fire
Department
Commissioner, a
Board Member for Los
Angeles Educational
Alliance for
Restructuring (now
LEARN), and a Board
Member for the
Metropolitan Water
District. He
currently serves as
a Board Member of
the Timberland
Company.
Lombard holds a
bachelor’s degree in
communications from
the University of
Washington.
ABOUT STARBUCKS
Starbucks Coffee
Company provides an
uplifting experience
that enriches
people’s lives one
moment, one human
being, one
extraordinary cup of
coffee at a time. To
share in the
experience, please
visit
www.starbucks.com.
Mitch has over
15-years of
experience in
the music and
entertainment
industry. He
joined Thumbplay
from Infospace
Mobile where he
most recently
served as
director of
Content
Licensing and
Acquisition
overseeing all
of Infospace's
media
distribution
agreements.
Prior to
Infospace, Mitch
served as SVP of
Soundtracks and
Music
Development for
New Line Cinema
where among
other
accomplishments
he served as
executive
producer for the
Grammy nominated
soundtracks to
I Am Sam
and
Lord of the
Rings.
Josh
Brooks, VP, Marketing & Content Development
MySpace
Josh Brooks is
Vice President
of Marketing and
Content
Development for
MySpace.com, the
leading social
networking and
lifestyle portal
on the Internet.
Boasting more
than 155 million
members and over
40 billion page
views per month,
MySpace is part
of a global
community with
localized sites
in the UK,
Japan,
Australia,
Ireland, Italy,
Spain, Canada
and New Zealand
as well as local
language sites
in France and
Germany.
Crucial to the
site’s growth
are the media
partnerships,
content
acquisitions,
original content
development and
strategic
planning that
Brooks executes
and oversees.
Entertainment
vehicles, stunts
and events in
music,
television,
film, comedy,
gaming and other
emerging
lifestyle fields
are just some of
MySpace’s growth
areas. Most
recently, Brooks
spearheaded the
launch of the
MySpace Film
channel through
a partnership
with the Beastie
Boys as well as
the launch of
the MySpace
Comedy with
Pepsi and a
strategic
relationship
with The Improv.
Recent
programming
highlights
include
franchises such
as MySpace
Secret Shows
(music), The
List (music),
Black Carpet
Screenings
(film) as well
as the largest
philanthropic
effort ever
undertaken by
MySpace, the
Rock for Darfur
program
(philanthropy).
Prior to joining
MySpace.com,
Brooks was a
personal manager
at both The Firm
and Spivak
Entertainment,
for gold and
platinum music
clients that
including Queens
of the Stone
Age, The
Distillers and A
Perfect Circle.
Additionally,
Brooks developed
innovative
marketing tools
to extend the
artists profile
in the
marketplace
through
ticketing,
licensing and
merchandise
concepts.
Building the
foundation for
his strength in
new media
technologies,
Brooks was one
of the founding
partners of
Fanscape, an
online/offline
marketing
company and
pioneers in
grassroots
online
marketing.
Since site
inception in
January 2004,
MySpace has
grown
exponentially
with an average
of 250,000 new
users signing up
daily. By
integrating web
profiles, blogs,
classified
listings,
entertainment
content, photo
galleries and
user forums,
MySpace has
created a
community where
users can do
everything from
plan their
weekends to
connect up with
friends to
discover new
music. According
to comScore
Media Metrix,
MySpace is now
the #1 ranked
domain on the
Internet* in
terms of page
views and
includes more
than 3 million
bands that use
MySpace’s music
channel to
upload tracks,
list tour dates
and engage with
fans.
* Among the top
2000 domains.
comScore Media
Metrix, February
2007.
Scott
Ambrose Reilly, Head
of Business Development, Content Acquisition and Label
Relations
Amazon.com Digital Music
Scott is
currently the
head of business
development,
content
acquisition and
label relations
for Amazon.com
Digital Music.
His primary
responsibility
is licensing the
catalog for the
Amazon.com MP3
store.
Prior to joining
Amazon.com,
Scott spent two
years running
label relations
and content
acquisition for
eMusic. Scott
started in the
music business
as road manager
for Mojo Nixon
in 1986 and
started
Bullethead
Management in
New York City in
1990 overseeing
the careers of
dozens of
artists through
the 1990s. Scott
also launched
one of the very
first band
websites for
artist God
Street Wine,
offering MP3
downloads and
tickets sales in
1994. In 2000,
Scott gave up
management to
help launch
Digital Club
Network, in
which he was
President when
it was acquired
by eMusic in
2004.
Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, Senior
Vice President & General Counsel
National Music Publishers’ Association
As Senior Vice
President and
General Counsel
of the National
Music
Publishers’
Association (NMPA),
Jacqueline C.
Charlesworth
serves as the
primary legal
advisor for the
legislative and
legal
initiatives of
the leading
trade
association
representing the
interests of
music publishers
in the United
States.
At NMPA,
Charlesworth has
been
instrumental in
shaping and
negotiating the
Section 115
Reform Act (SIRA),
legislation to
amend the U.S.
Copyright Act to
create a new
system for
licensing of
musical works to
digital
services.
Passed by the
U.S. House of
Representatives
Subcommittee on
Courts, the
Internet and
Intellectual
Property in June
2006, SIRA
represents a
crucial first
step in the
legislative
process to
reform music
licensing.
In her role as
general counsel,
Charlesworth is
also responsible
for overseeing
NMPA’s
groundbreaking
litigation
efforts,
including the
music
publishers’
cases against
illegal
peer-to-peer
services. In
September 2006,
the music
publishers
(along with the
record labels
and movie
studios) won a
long-sought
victory when the
federal district
court from which
the Grokster
case was
appealed --
ultimately to
the U.S. Supreme
Court -- applied
the Supreme
Court's decision
in Grokster
to hold illegal
peer-to-peer
provider Streamcast
liable for
massive
copyright
infringement.
Prior to
assuming her
position with
NMPA in early
2006,
Charlesworth
served as Senior
Vice President
and General
Counsel of The
Harry Fox
Agency, Inc. (HFA),
a subsidiary of
NMPA and the
premier
licensing agency
representing
music publishers
in the United
States, with
over 27,000
publisher
clients. As
general counsel
of HFA,
Charlesworth
oversaw all of
the legal
affairs of HFA,
including
licensing
policy, royalty
compliance
matters and
anti-piracy
activities. At
HFA,
Charlesworth
created and
implemented
innovative
digital
licensing
programs for
online music
services and
ringtone
companies.
Before moving to
HFA in 2001,
Charlesworth was
an associate in
the Litigation
Department of
Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison.
While there,
Charlesworth
represented NMPA
and HFA with
respect to
various
litigation and
licensing
matters. During
her tenure at
Paul, Weiss,
Charlesworth
negotiated and
finalized the
landmark October
5, 2001agreement
with the
Recording
Industry
Association of
America (RIAA)
that allowed for
the licensing of
online music
subscription
services. She
also litigated
Rodgers &
Hammerstein Org.
v. UMG
Recordings
(often referred
to as the "Farmclub"
case) to a
successful
outcome for her
music publisher
clients when the
court held on
summary judgment
that UMG needed
to obtain
licenses before
making server
copies of
copyrighted
musical works to
operate its
Farmclub streaming
service.
Charlesworth
holds a law
degree from Yale
Law School and
is a magna cum
laude graduate
of Brown
University. She
clerked for the
Honorable Miriam
Goldman
Cedarbaum of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of New
York and then
the Honorable
Betty B.
Fletcher of the
U.S. Court of
Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit
before entering
private
practice.
Celia
Hirschman, Host
KCRW's On The Beat
Celia Hirschman
is an
independent
consultant for
the music
business. She
founded the
marketing
consulting
company,
Downtown
Marketing, in
1999 and the
video promotion
company Vis-Ability
in 1986. In
addition to
running Downtown
Marketing, Ms.
Hirschman also
runs the UK
based label, One
Little Indian,
in North
America. As a
marketing
consultant, Ms.
Hirschman has
worked with
Bryan Adams,
Martina McBride,
Sonia Dada,
Cindy Bullens
and more. As a
video promoter,
Ms. Hirschman
has worked with
labels
representing
acts such as
Madonna, aha,
Talking Heads,
Aimee Mann,
10,000 Maniacs,
Depeche Mode,
Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Van
Halen and many
more.
Ms. Hirschman
has served as a
label executive
at several large
labels in a
marketing and
managerial
role. Celia was
the General
Manager of Chris
Blackwell's Palm
label,
overseeing the
entire roster.
Previously she
held the
position of VP
of Marketing and
Artist
Development at
Mercury Records,
and she began
her label
experience at A&
M Records as the
Executive
Director of
Marketing. She
started her
career in the
music business
managing seven
record stores in
California and
Hawaii for a
large music
chain.
Celia has taught
music marketing
at UCLA and
served on the
boards of both
the East coast
and West coast
chapters of
NARAS. Ms.
Hirschman
founded and ran
two non-profit
organizations in
the Music
Business - Los
Angeles Women In
Music (LAWIM)
and the Music
Video
Association (MVA).
She resides in
New York City.
Andrew
Stess, CEO
MusicIP
Andrew Stess is
the Chief
Executive
Officer and
member of the
Board of
Directors of
MusicIP, the
premier provider
of music
discovery
solutions for
digital music
devices,
applications and
online services.
Prior to joining
MusicIP, he was
Vice President
of Consumer
Electronics at
All Media Guide
(AMG). During
his four-year
tenure there, he
built and
managed the
sales and
business
development team
responsible for
licensing AMG's
media
recognition and
content
management
system to a
significant
number of
leading edge
companies in the
U.S., Europe and
Asia.
Before joining
All Media Guide,
Andrew was the
Director of
Sales and
Business
Development at
the online music
and technology
company, Liquid
Audio. He joined
Liquid Audio
after three
years with
Gracenote, where
he was the first
executive hired
by the founding
group. During
his tenure
there, Andrew
pioneered the
licensing of
media
recognition for
consumer
electronics and
media player
applications.
Andrew serves on
the Board of
Directors of
LyricFind, the
first full
functional
search engine
for full text
lyrics and the
first licensed
source for
lyrics online.
Jim
McNiel, CEO
Fifth Generation Systems (Founder, Zude)
With more than
25 years in the
technology
business, Mr.
McNiel is well
positioned to
guide Fifth
Generation
Systems in the
development of
its products,
business
partnerships and
future
direction. When
not working with
co-founder Steve
Repetti on the
next big Zude
enhancement, Mr.
McNiel focuses
on strategy and
business
partnerships. As
a co-founder of
Fifth Generation
Systems, Mr.
McNiel is the
company’s
president and
CEO and serves
on the Board of
Directors.
Prior to
co-founding
Fifth Generation
Systems, Mr.
McNiel was a
partner with
technology-centric
venture capital
firm Pequot
Ventures. During
his seven years
at Pequot, Mr.
McNiel sat on
the boards of
Netegrity,
NetGear, and
OutlookSoft as
well as a number
of other private
and public
companies. He
was also a
co-founder and
executive vice
president of
corporate
development for
Cheyenne
Software, which
was acquired by
Computer
Associates in
1997 for $1.2B.
During his
tenure at
Cheyenne, Mr.
McNiel was
responsible for
mergers and
acquisitions,
business
development,
product
management, OEM
sales, and
expansion into
global markets.
Before joining
Cheyenne, Mr.
McNiel was
director of
advanced
products for AST
Computer.
Mr. McNiel
started his
career in 1982
as a software
engineer with
LucasFilm Ltd.
and Convergence
Corporation. He
currently serves
on the boards of
Tri-Alpha Energy
and the National
Neurovison
Research
Institute. Mr.
McNiel dedicates
a significant
amount of his
time to serving
as the director
and trustee of
the Foundation
Fighting
Blindness and
truly believes
“There is a Cure
in Sight.” A
California
native and a
graduate of the
Wharton School,
Mr. McNiel
resides in Long
Island, New
York.
Stephen
Condon, VP, Worldwide Marketing, Media & Entertainment
Fifth Generation Systems (Founder, Zude)
Stephen Condon
brings more than
20 years of
marketing
experience to Verisign from
the advertising,
entertainment
and technology
industries. His
primary role as
Vice President, Worldwide Marketing,
is to establish
a leadership
position for
Verisign in the
Media and
Entertainment
marketplace.
His
responsibilities
include
strategic
marketing,
marketing
communications ,
tradeshow
strategy, and
packaging
solutions
specifically for
the Media and
Entertainment
marketplace.
Condon commenced
his career in
advertising
working for J.
Walter Thompson
and Chiat/Day on
leading brands
such as Kraft
Foods and
NutraSweet. His
advertising
career
introduced him
to the high
technology
entertainment
business when he
worked on the
hugely
successful
launch of DI RECTV .
He later joined
DIRECTV, as
Senior Director
of Marketing and
was responsible
for program
marketing and
subscriber
acquisition
promotions. In
1998 Condon
moved from
delivering video
over satellite
to delivering
video on the
Internet and
joined INTERVU
as Vice
President of
Marketing where
he lead
strategic
marketing
efforts and
marketing
communications
up until the
Akamai
acquisition.
Since then,
Condon has held
various senior
technology
marketing
positions
including Chief
Marketing
Officer of
Intertainer,
which was one of
the first online
video delivery
portals
and most
recently Vice
President of
Marketing for
broadband video
ASP Entriq.
He holds a
bachelor's
degree in
business and
has undertaken
post graduate
studies in
Marketing at
Monash
University in
Melbourne,
Australia.
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David Todd, Vice President of Content and Strategic Partnerships
