2012 Speakers

Chris Kaskie

President, Pitchfork
Chris Kaskie is the President of Pitchfork, the essential guide to independent music and beyond. With more than 4 million unique visitors each month and 500,000 visits each day, Pitchfork has one of the Web's most loyal audiences, and is considered one one of the world's most popular, respected, and influential music publications.

In addition to developing Pitchfork into an internationally renowned online music magazine, Chris runs the company day-to-day and is an architect of Pitchfork's growth and expansion into other arenas, such as the Pitchfork Music Festivals and Pitchfork.tv. He lives in Chicago with his wife Amy and two children, Cecilia and James.

Jim Lucchese

CEO, The Echo Nest
Jim Lucchese is the CEO of The Echo Nest. The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers smarter music applications for leading online media companies (MTV, Clear Channel, the BBC, Rhapsody, MOG, NPR, EMI, NOKIA) and a community of over 10,000 independent developers.

Before The Echo Nest, Jim was a music lawyer at Greenberg Traurig, specializing in music and digital media deals. Prior to GT, he held senior sales and corporate development positions at Hughes, where he managed market development and sales with annual revenues exceeding $20 Million. He was also chief strategy officer of Webnoize/DMN, a digital entertainment research and advisory company serving over 500 clients. Jim holds a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Kenneth Parks

Chief Content Officer, Spotify
Managing Director, Spotify USA
Kenneth Parks is chief content officer at Spotify, managing director of Spotify USA, and has been responsible for all of Spotify's licensing agreements in the U.S., overseeing the U.S. office.

Ken previously was a senior vice president of strategy and business development at EMI Music, where he had worldwide commercial responsibility for exploiting EMI's recorded music and video repertoire across the spectrum of new music platforms. He was also general counsel for a Web 1.0 music/lifestyle company, GetMusic LLC, as well as worked at Reuters, AT&T a,nd a private New York law firm.

Parks is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law. He graduated summa cum laude from Lafayette College and holds a master's degree from Lehigh University.

Gerd Leonhard

CEO, The Futures Agency
The WSJ calls Futurist, Author and CEO of The Futures Agency Gerd Leonhard "one of the leading media-futurists in the world". Gerd is considered a thought-leader and global influencer in the media / content, technology, marketing & communications, telecom, and cultural industries, with a client list that includes many leading global companies. He delivers provocative yet inspiring presentations with "great balance of content covering innovations that are already upon us versus those that are still hypothetical" [client quote]. Gerd is also an author, a strategic adviser, and visiting Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral (São Paulo, Brazil). He lives in Basel, Switzerland, and on the airplane.

Kenneth Hertz

Senior Partner, Hertz and Lichtenstein LLP
Kenneth Hertz is a Senior Partner in the Beverly Hills law firm, Hertz and Lichtenstein LLP. Ken and his partners specialize in representing talent and new media companies in the sports and entertainment industries. The firm's clients include Will, Jada, Willow and Jaden Smith, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, The Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am and Britney Spears. Prior to joining the firm, Ken was in charge of music, business and legal affairs, for The Walt Disney Company.

Ken is also a principal in Membrain - an entertainment marketing and strategy consulting firm. Membrain consults a number of firms engaged in businesses operating in the entertainment content, fashion, technology and marketing industries.

Ken has been an instructor at UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, and an adjunct professor of law at USC.

Cecily Mak

Vice President and General Counsel, Rhapsody International Inc
Cecily Mak is currently with Rhapsody International Inc, a joint venture among Viacom International and RealNetworks, Inc. as the company's Vice President and General Counsel. She is a graduate, professor, and mentor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and co-author of the timely book, "Music Law in the Digital Age," published by Berklee College of Music's press, Berklee Press, in 2010. In her role as Vice President and General Counsel of Rhapsody International Inc., formally a division of RealNetworks operating as Rhapsody America, Mak drives every aspect of The Company's legal strategy, internally, across its entire business platform and, externally with label, publishing and strategic partners. In early 2010, Mak played the key legal role in Rhapsody International Inc.'s spinoff from RealNetworks and in October, 2011, she led the legal component of executing agreements for the acquisition of Rhapsody's largest competitor, Napster LLC.

Rio Caraeff

President & Chief Executive Officer, VEVO
Rio has led VEVO since the company was founded in 2009. Previously, Rio was EVP of Universal Music Group's eLabs, responsible for handling the company's electronic commerce initiatives, Internet exploitation, and new technology business opportunities worldwide. He formerly served as GM of Universal Music Mobile. Rio's extensive background before Universal included working in new technologies in virtually all areas of entertainment including film, television, music and games for such companies as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fabric (a Media/Telecom consultancy he co-founded), Sony 550 Digital Media Ventures, Sony Music Entertainment, Capitol Records Group and Propaganda Films.

Jim Griffin

Managing Director, OneHouse LLC
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.

Today, Jim is focused on music registries, especially an international music registry, that was proposed by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization. Jim started and runs Choruss LLC, incubated by Warner Music Group. 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.

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.

He is often a keynote speaker 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.

Anita Elberse

Associate Professor, Harvard Business School.
Anita Elberse is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School.

Professor Elberse develops and teaches a course on Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries, covering the businesses of entertainment, media and sports. She also teaches in Strategic Marketing Management, Taking Marketing Digital, and other short programs for executives, and previously taught Marketing.

In her research, Professor Elberse primarily aims to understand what drives the success of products in the media, entertainment, sports, and other creative industries, and how firms can develop effective marketing strategies for such products. She is acclaimed for her work on digital-media strategies. Her research has also appeared in leading print and broadcast media. Professor Elberse has conducted case studies on many media and entertainment companies, including A&M/Octone Records, Comcast, Grand Central Publishing, Hulu, Marvel Enterprises, MGM, Sony, and The CW.

Prior to joining Harvard Business School, professor Elberse was a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD from London Business School, an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, and an MA in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam (cum laude)..

Christopher Bavitz

Assistant Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Christopher T. Bavitz is Assistant Director of Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at HLS. Christopher has concentrated his practice on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. Prior to joining the Clinic, Christopher served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998-2002, Christopher was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP / Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Christopher received his B.A., /cum laude/, from Tufts University in 1995 and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1998.

David Herlihy

Associate Academic Specialist, Northeastern University
DAVID A. HERLIHY has maintained an intellectual property/entertainment law practice in Newton, Massachusetts since 1993. His clients have included authors, musicians, recording artists, songwriters, performers, producers, visual artists, managers, publishers, record companies, e-business innovation companies, software and service providers and entrepreneurs. He received a B.A., cum laude, from Boston College in 1979 and a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1982.

David is an Associate Academic Specialist at Northeastern University, in the College of Media, Art & Design and the School of Business, where he lectures about copyright law and the entertainment industry, and he supervises the University's record label.

David was the lead singer and principal songwriter for O POSITIVE (a Boston-based musical group with full length albums on Epic Records and several independent record labels) for which he won three Boston Music Awards for "Outstanding Male Vocalist" as well as twice topping the Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll as "Best Local Male Vocalist." He is a Member of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and is still active in the recording studio. David occasionally performs live with the bands Toyboat and Hey Dave.

Maxwell E. Wessel

Founder of nuevoStage.com
Max is the founder of nuevoStage.com, a disruptive concert promotions company and winner of Rethink Music's Business Plan Competition in 2011. Max serves as a Fellow at Harvard Business School's Forum for Growth and Innovation, a think tank devoted to developing the academic understanding of the innovation process. Max's research focuses on product development, how companies can adapt to changing market conditions, and identifying the technologies that enable disruption.

Max regularly writes on the subjects of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Business Week and Business Insider.

Max currently serves as an advisor to various venture backed start-ups in the consumer internet and clean-tech industries; most notably, SnagFilms, LLC, Arcanum Alloy Design, and Modular Carpet Recycling.

Max received a BA in economics and philosophy from Northwestern University where he graduated with Distinction. He also received an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar and a Rock Fellow.

Seth Goldstein

Chairman of turntable.fm
Currently he serves as the Chairman of turntable.fm, the addictive social music service that was named top music startup of 2011 by Billboard Magazine..

In 1995, Seth founded Sitespecific, which pioneered online advertising solutions for companies like Duracell and Travelocity. It was acquired by CKS Group in 1997. In 1999, Seth joined Fred Wilson as Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners where he built a practice in "pervasive computing," investing in companies Kozmo, Modo and Vindigo. In 2002, Seth created Majestic Research, the first Wall Street research firm to mine primary data for hedge funds to forecast the financial performance of public companies. Majestic Research was acquired in 2010 by Investment Technology Group (NYSE: ITG). In 2005, Seth started Root Markets with renowned Salomon Brothers trader Lew Ranieri and the Chicago Board of Trade to create the first financial exchange for Internet mortgage leads. Seth started SocialMedia.com in 2007 which makes ads more relevant across the Web with a unique social advertising platform. SocialMedia was acquired in 2011 by LivingSocial. In 2007, Seth created the pre-eminent start-up ghetto Pier 38 in SanFrancisco, which gave birth to Instagram, social gold, CoTweet, and AppJet among others (and which was summarily shut down by the City of SF for curious concerns about safety). In 2010, Seth and Billy Chasen co-founded Stickybits which connected digital media to real-world objects via barcodes. Stickybits was the progenitor to turntable.fm.

Mr. Goldstein holds a BA in Literature from Columbia University's Columbia College. Following school in 1993, he started Riverbed Media, which created interactive projects with contemporary artists Robert Wilson and William Forsythe. Seth lives in Marin, CA with his wife and two sons.

Patrick Sullivan

Co-Founder, President & CEO of RightsFlow
Patrick Sullivan is a leading expert in the field of intellectual property and copyright management for both physical and digital media and is the cofounder, President and CEO of RightsFlow.

He helped pioneer a service that offers a single, cost-effective channel through which rights-holders and companies that sell or distribute music can connect, ensuring proper licensing, accurate accounting and timely payment of royalties for publishing (mechanicals). The company's proprietary licensing, accounting and royalty payment technology makes it easy for businesses selling or distributing music in a digitally enabled market to be compliant with U.S. copyright laws.

RightsFlow also ensures that artists, songwriters and publishers are paid for the use of their music and provides them with an unprecedented level of data transparency. The company was acquired by Google in December 2011 and is now part of the YouTube team.

Mark Isherwood

Co-Founder of Rightscom
Mark spent 18 years working for the MCPS-PRS Alliance. Mark was one of the original founders of Rightscom, a UK based consulting firm focused on intellectual property rights management issues, encompassing commercial rights negotiations and the design and deployment of business, technology and process solutions for the management, protection and trading of intellectual property rights and content in the network environment. He has worked with major record companies and rights societies in the analysis of their system requirements in the management of digital music and participated in a project examining the intellectual property rights (IPR) consequences of using Creative Commons. Rightscom acts as the secretariat to DDEX (www.ddex.net) developing digital supply chain standards for the exchange of information relating to the management of digital content and rights. In February 2010 Mark was appointed as the facilitator of the GRD Working Group focused on the development of a global repertoire database for musical works. Subsequently he was appointed as the non-voting Chair of the WG and heavily involved in the scoping study currently being undertaken and due for publication at the end of February 2012.

Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

Writer, Artist & Musician
Photo: Mike Figgis
Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), a graduate of Bowdoin College, is a writer, artist and musician who lives and works in NYC. His award winning first book Rhythm Science was published by MIT Press in 2005, followed by Sound Unbound in 2008 and The Book of Ice in 2011. Miller's work has been exhibited at museums and biennials throughout the world. He has performed at premiere venues including Lincoln Center, BAM, The Tate Modern, The Guggenheim Museum, and The Herod Atticus Theater at the Acropolis, and has collaborated with a wide variety of artists from Chuck D to Yoko Ono.

Arguably no one is more responsible for propagating and embodying the idea of the deejay as "artist" than DJ Spooky, whose ambitious, elaborate, often hypnotic soundscapes have been notable as much for their eclectic imagination as for their post-modern intellectualism.- Chicago Tribune

David Viecelli

Founder of The Billions Corporation
David Viecelli (a.k.a. Boche Billions) founded leading independent booking agency The Billions Corporation in Chicago in 1989. Relying upon the American stereotype of Canadians as polite and neighborly for cover, the truly cantankerous and curmudgeonly Viecelli aggressively built a minuscule company into a tiny one over the course of two decades. Among those snared in this fiendish plot are the Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver, Death Cab For Cutie, Vampire Weekend, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Neko Case, The Swell Season, Sufjan Stevens and Fleet Foxes. Similarly, nobody bothered to stop him from founding the Billions Australia agency partnership in 1999 or Lever and Beam, a New York-based artist management partnership in 2009, either.

David Hyman

CEO & Founder of MOG Inc.
David Hyman, a self-proclaimed music junkie, is CEO & founder of MOG Inc., a next generation music media company. David is currently one of the music industry's leading innovators and as CEO and founder of MOG, Inc., he's taking the digital music industry and turning it on its head through the innovation and imagination of his Berkeley, CA based start-up.

MOG Inc. was founded in 2005, and under his leadership, MOG's award-winning, unlimited, on-demand music service that provides access to a vast library of over 14 million songs from over a million albums through its mobile apps, online, through streaming entertainment devices, Internet connected TV's and Blu-ray and in the car. MOG Inc. is also provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the largest music focused advertising network online consisting of over 1700 music sites, receiving over 60 million unique visitors a month.

Prior to MOG Inc., David served as CEO of Gracenote, the world's largest music database & music-identification service, which sold to Sony for $260 million in 2008. Previously, he was SVP of Marketing at MTV Interactive, & co-founded Addicted to Noise, the webzine that pioneered multimedia music reporting & around-the-clock music news.

Jack Isquith

Senior Vice President, Slacker Radio
Jack is a digital music industry veteran who has held senior posts at Warner Brothers Records and AOL Music, and recently joined Slacker Radio as Senior VP of Strategic Development. Jack is a pioneer of the new music business with extensive experience in digital content and monetization.

Over the last ten years, Jack has successfully built digital music experiences for CDNOW, AOL and Warner Brothers Records. He oversaw the strategic development and monetization of all digital content at Warner Brothers, led content creation and programming at AOL Music and developed CDNOW's first efforts in ad-supported digital media.

As an established commentator and thinker in the digital space, Jack has been profiled by CNN, NPR, Fox News, The Today Show, Business Week, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, Reuters, The Huffington Post and USA Today.

Kristin Thomson

Consultant, Future of Music Coalition
Kristin Thomson is a community organizer, social policy researcher, entrepreneur and musician. She is co-owner of Simple Machines, an independent record label, which released over seventy records and CDs from 1991-1998. She also played guitar in the band Tsunami, which released four albums from 1991-1997 and toured extensively. In 2001, Kristin graduated with a Masters in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware. She has been with the Future of Music Coalition since 2001 and has overseen project management, research and event programming, including Future of Music Policy Summits from 2002-2007. She currently lives near Philadelphia with her husband Bryan Dilworth, a concert promoter, and their son, where she also plays guitar in the lady-powered band, Ken.

Jean Cook

Consultant, Future of Music Coalition
Jean Cook is a performer, composer, session musician, and producer. She performs and records with Beauty Pill, Jon Langford, Ida/Elizabeth Mitchell, and His Name is Alive and has appeared as a violinist on over 50 recordings. She is the founder and executive producer for the nonprofit new music group Anti-Social Music. She has managed the finances of various nonprofits, bands and other musicians for over a decade and has a BA in sociology from Barnard College. She joined Future of Music Coalition in 2005.

Portugal. The Man

Musical Group
Since their formation in 2005, Portugal. The Man has captured the attention of the American indie scene with their extraordinary amalgamation of electronic beats, complex melodies, and atmospheric post-rock soundscapes. Formed in Wasilla, Alaska by lead singer/guitarist/songwriter John Gourley before migrating south to the Pacific Northwest, the band proved as prolific as they were eclectic, releasing an album each year since their 2006 debut, "WAITER: 'YOU VULTURES!'"

Each consecutive collection revealed the ongoing evolution of Portugal. The Man, from the cathartic hard rock of 2007's "CHURCH MOUTH" and the theatrical pop psychedelia of 2008's "CENSORED COLORS" to the sci-fi chamber-pop found on 2009's "THE SATANIC SATANIST" and 2010's "AMERICAN GHETTO."

Portugal. The Man has also proven an inexhaustible live act, performing more than 800 shows over the course of their 6-year history. Moreover, the band has stolen the show at a variety of major festivals, including Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Lollapalooza, and the Sasquatch! Music Festival. Their performance at 2010's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was singled out by a range of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, which placed PTM's set among the festival's "most satisfying moments… Already a fine, adventurous band, Portugal. The Man has upped its game through tighter musical and vocal arrangements."

Portugal. The Man is John Gourley: vocals, guitar; Zachary Scott Carothers: bass, vocals; Jason Sechrist: drums; Ryan Neighbors: keys, vocals.

Olivier Robert-Murphy

Global Head of New Business, Universal Music Group
Olivier joined the entertainment industry at PolyGram Video France where he launched hundreds of audio-visual products. Through the merger of PolyGram and Universal, Olivier advanced to Vice President of Marketing at Universal Pictures International Video and relocated to London.

Olivier has been with Universal Music Group since 2001. After launching the audio-visual department, and whilst doing an MBA at the London Business School, he received the responsibility of managing the Strategic Marketing Division, including traditional and non-traditional exploitation of the vast UMG repertoire.

Olivier was promoted to head up the business development activity at UMG to bring innovative, tailor made and exclusive business solutions to brands (www.u-bee.biz). He was recently voted "Most Influential French Londoner" in the Business category by French magazine Ici Londres.

Olivier is still a keen drummer and plays for a blues band in London.

Dave Kusek

CEO, Berkleemusic.com
Dave Kusek is Vice President of Berklee College of Music and the Co-Author of The Future of Music, the best selling music business book. He is a digital music executive and is responsible for helping to create the market for digital music. In 1980 he founded the first music software company, Passport Designs, which made it possible for musicians to record and produce their music at home with its award-winning software.

Kusek is a co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) industry standard that opened up electronic music to millions of people. His efforts, along with others, set the stage for the multi-billion dollar digital music market that exists today.

Kusek is currently the CEO at Berkleemusic.com where he has created the world's largest online music school teaching over 15,000 students a year globally.

Dave Kusek has written for or been featured in Forbes, Billboard, The New York Times, Wired, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, MTV, CNBC, and the Financial Times, and is a frequent speaker at Midem, MacWorld, Comdex, NAMM, AES, IEBA, NBC-TV, the Nightly Business Report, NPR, and the BBC.

Erin McKeown

Musician & Berkman Fellow
Erin McKeown is an internationally known musician, writer, and producer, releasing 7 full length albums in the last decade and spending an average of 200 nights a year onstage. She has appeared on Later with Jools Holland, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, NPR, BBC, and has had numerous film, television, and commercial placements. She's even written a song via text message with her friend Rachel Maddow. Lately, she has added mentor and activist to her resume. She is a 2011-12 fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Joe Killian

SVP, Music and Entertainment at Momentum
Joe Killian currently serves as SVP, Music and Entertainment at Momentum. He has developed marketing strategies, negotiated sponsorships and executed activations for a wide range of clients.

For American Express, Mr. Killian currently serves as the Executive Producer of Unstaged. The digital platform uses social media to connect an online audience with live performances from today's breakthrough artists as captured by top filmakers.

Mr. Killian is the former Director and Producer of Concerts at Radio City Music Hall. He is best known as the Founder and Producer of Central Park SummerStage, New York City's award-winning outdoor music series.

Joe Killian sits on the Advisory Boards of both Central Park SummerStage and the Woody Guthrie Archives Foundation.

J Sider

CEO & Founder, RootMusic.com
J is the CEO & Founder of RootMusic.com, which makes the #1 Music app on Facebook called "BandPage". He was recently named to both Forbes and Billboard's 30 Under 30 in 2011.

He is a musician and music lover at heart. Most of his knowledge about the music industry was gained after getting into the business of music managing bands and venues around the country. This experience opened his eyes to the practical needs of the music community in the digital era, and the lack of a solution.

Out of this realization J founded RootMusic.com to provide an honest, social tool to help musicians take the next step, whether that is their first open mic, or on the big stage. J believes that technology is an art not just a product. Striving to build technology that effects people as deeply as music can. Follow on Twitter: @RootMusic /@JSider

Philippe Perreaux

Founder, Rightsform and Rightsclearing
Philippe Perreaux is passionate about making music licensing easy for artists. After receiving his law degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2001, Philippe worked as a legal adviser for photo agencies, such as the leading photo agency in Europe (epa.eu), and for artists, designers, etc. As an open-source enthusiast, he co-founded the Swiss association "Digitale Allmend" in 2006, which advocates free access to knowledge and information. Philippe is also the Swiss representative of the non-profit organization Creative Commons. In 2008 he founded the artist based music platform restorm.com, and has launched rightclearing.com, a fully automated licensing system. The rightclearing technology merges the traditional concept of copyright (C), Creative Commons (CC) and Public Domain (PD) into one system that allows the monetization of usage rights.

Cathy Merenda

Vice President of Music Publishing, Twentieth Century Fox
Cathy Merenda heads the music publishing division of Twentieth Century Fox where she oversees copyrights from Fox's film, television, syndication, news and domestic cable divisions. Cathy has focused on the administrative aspects of Fox's large catalog by implementing systems to streamline operations.

Cathy started her music career as a recording and live sound engineer. She moved into music publishing and finance at Scotti Brothers Records/All American Television before coming to Twentieth Century Fox.

Cathy is past President of the National Board to the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), a member of NARAS, California Copyright Conference (CCC), the Copyright Society of the USA and has served as a mentor with Operation Hope's 5MK initiative and the Fox/Hamilton Music Mentoring Program.

Rob Stone

Founder and co-president Cornerstone Agency and FADER Media
In June of 1996, Stone left Arista Records to start Cornerstone: a NYC-based agency that has grown globally to a dedicated staff of over 100 employees and additional offices in Los Angeles and London.

With Cornerstone, Stone and co-CEO Jon Cohen created a new style of marketing. Utilizing skills honed in the music business, they devised methods of breaking brands the same way they had been breaking music acts. Today nearly every brand has adopted these methods. A Billboard cover story declared; "Cornerstone sits at the nexus of branding and music, and are arguably the pioneers in the movement."

Current clients include Microsoft, Diageo, Pepsi and Converse.

In 1998 Stone and Cohen launched The FADER, an ahead-of-the-curve music and lifestyle magazine The New York Times calls a "music and fashion bible," which has become the unofficial guide to "what's next in the music business."

Elizabeth Moody

Head of Strategic Partner Development, Music Content, YouTube
Elizabeth Moody is the Head of Strategic Partner Development for Music at YouTube where she focuses on business development generally and on managing relations with YouTube's music partners, including record labels and music publishers of all sizes. Prior to joining YouTube, Elizabeth was an attorney with Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes where she spent years offering business and legal advice to new and existing digital music services of all types.

Robert Fernandez

CEO, Famous Artist Music and Manager Team Pitbull
Is a Cuban American businessman and Founder / CEO of Famous Artist Music. Robert has been involved in the music business since 1993 in various roles. His most memorable role is the launch and development of the artist known as PITBULL. The artist PITBULL has been responsible for various hits with sales totaling over 10 million units collectively. Robert has also been involved in the development of several other artists. He has expanded into concert logistics and promotion. Robert has help organized many concerts for radio stations such as KXOL and their signature event Calibash. Another massive event was Mega radio station event at Madison Square garden with two days of performance with over 20 acts each day for a total of 40 acts. These acts were some of the biggest acts in the Latin Market.

Junior Goris

Manager, Team Pitbull
Junior is a management team member of international recording sensation PITBULL. Originally from New York City, Junior moved to Miami in 2004 when he was employed by a small Latin label distributed by Universal Music Latino. Joining TEAM PITBULL in 2006, Junior has worked in every capacity of the music business with the team from tour support to international licensing. Alongside FAMOUS ARTIST/TEAM PITBULL CEO Robert Fernandez, Junior has traveled the world to attend the industry's top conferences and summits, many times as panelists sharing with attendees the success of PITBULL and the landscape of the new music business. In addition to PITBULL, Junior has also assisted in managing super producer duo, the DIAZ Bros.

Laura Saez

Senior Vice President of Digital Sales and Commercial Development, EMI Music North America
Laura Sáez, Senior Vice President of Digital Sales & Commercial Development for EMI Music North America, has been at the forefront of the digital music revolution from its earliest stages. From Digital Marketing and Sales to Digital Commercial Development, she has demonstrated the ability to stay one step ahead of the industry throughout her career and has led efforts that have outpaced market growth in numerous product category sales in both online and mobile. In her current role at EMI Music North America, Ms. Sáez oversees strategy and revenue development for the U.S. digital account base for all digital products spanning all platforms. Prior to her work at EMI Music North America, Ms. Sáez developed the first Digital Sales Department from its inception for Universal Music Group Distribution as Senior Vice President Sales; after having led the digital efforts for Warner Brother's Records' illustrious catalog as Vice President of Digital Sales & Marketing at Rhino Entertainment, a Division of Warner Music Group. With more than a decade of experience in the field, Ms. Sáez continues to anticipate and monetize developing trends in digital entertainment.

Yochai Benkler

Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Since the 1990s he has played a part in characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of Networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom (Yale University Press 2006), and The Penguin and the Leviathan. Benkler has produced reports or served in an advisory capacity for a range communications and intellectual property regulators and policy makers at the national and international levels. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org.

Glenn Miller

Digital Strategy, Music, Creative Artists Agency
Glenn Miller is a digital strategy executive in the Music department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), an entertainment and sports agency based in Los Angeles with offices in New York, London, Nashville, and Beijing. Miller conceives and implements strategic and creative digital marketing campaigns for CAA's music and comedy clients.

Miller joined CAA in 2009 from AEG Live, where he served as the Director of Interactive Marketing. While at AEG Live, he created local and national digital media techniques which ultimately led to more than $100 million in ticket sales. He previously worked as Director of New Media and Brand Licensing at Bill Silva Management.

Amanda Palmer

Artist
Amanda Palmer is a performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo, The Dresden Dolls. She has since started a solo career, and is also one half of the Evelyn Evelyn duo.

Steven Masur

Senior Partner, MasurLaw
Steven Masur is unique because of the direct strategic business experience he brings to bear on client matters in digital media, mobile and entertainment. For over 18 years, Steve has helped clients make substantial returns in digital music, film, video games, mobile and wireless services, licensing, advertising, retail, manufacturing, publishing, media delivery, software and hardware. Where he brings the most value is in helping to work out complicated legal and business problems, mergers and other strategic opportunities in complicated competitive environments. Steve started working for the Newhouses at Conde Nast on corporate and cable TV deals, and parlayed his experience there into a career working with growth stage to enterprise level companies across a wide variety of different industries. It is this cross industry perspective which informs how he looks at corporate, intellectual property, and transactional law. Steve's clients have included Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, and Bob Vila, among others. Steve went to Colby College, and got his law degree at American University.

Don Gorder

Chair and Founder, Music Business / Management Department at Berklee College of Music
Don Gorder, Chair and founder of the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee College of Music, is an attorney, educator, and musician. He holds advanced degrees in law and music (B.M. University of Nebraska, M.M. University of Miami, J.D. University of Denver), has authored numerous articles on the music industry, and has spoken at many national and international music industry events. He co-authored the online course Legal Aspects of the Music Industry for Berkleemusic.com. As an attorney, he has represented clients in matters of copyright and contracts, and he remains active as a trumpet player in a variety of jazz and commercial settings. Don is Past President of the NAMM-Affiliated Music Business Institutions, a past officer and Board member of the Music and Entertainment Industry Educators' Association, a past Trustee with the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, and currently serves on the Alumni Advisory Council of the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. He served for fourteen years with the International Association for Jazz Education, as the Resource Team representative for music business/management.

Jon Vanhala

SVP Digital & New Business, Island Def Jam Motown / Universal Republic
Jon creates breakthrough digital and emerging business programs Universal's New York label group for over 215 recording artists and 15 plus label brands. Current roster highlights include global superstars Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Kanye West, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Bon Jovi, and many others. Jon oversees all things digital, new business development, new technologies, digital brand integration, product development, and interactive production. Currently most excited about how innovations in digital and product development create massive value for his roster & labels with brand integration.

Roger Brown

President, Berklee College of Music
When Berklee College of Music President Roger H. Brown assumed his post in 2004, he brought a rich palette of professional and life experiences to the job. Skills accrued playing recording sessions as a drummer in New York, administering U.N. humanitarian operations in Southeast Asia and Africa, and founding a company with his wife Linda Mason that became a corporation valued at over $1 billion and employing 19,000 people have contributed to his effective leadership at the world's largest college of contemporary music.

Brown and Mason secured venture capital and launched Bright Horizons to serve American families by providing childcare and early education. Within a decade, they had built a multi-million dollar, publicly traded company that operated centers for universities, hospitals, and corporations around the U.S. and the U.K. Brown utilized his musical talents within the company to write, produce, and perform on six CDs of children's music. The profits from the discs went to a foundation aiding homeless children. In 2007, Brown launched Giant Steps, Berklee's first capital campaign and exceeded the goal of raising $50 million. He has initiated Berklee's Presidential Scholars and Africa Scholars programs that provide full-ride scholarships to give top musicians around the globe a Berklee education. In 1996, Brown and Mason received the Ernst & Young/USA Today Entrepreneur of the Year award. Other accolades and awards, including the White House's Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, followed.

Bertrand Bodson

SVP Global Digital Marketing, EMI Music (UK)
Bertrand Bodson is SVP Global Digital Marketing at EMI Music where he is responsible for leading and developing the company's global digital marketing strategy.

Amongst other projects, Bertrand recently oversaw the launch of the OpenEMI initiative to foster closer and more innovative contacts between EMI and the technology development sector, providing access to EMI's content including tracks, videos and other assets to developers via API alongside a ground breaking revenue share deal. OpenEMI represents the most extensive collection of licensed music and other content to ever be available in this way, giving developers a one-stop destination to creative innovative digital products for EMI's artists.
Prior to EMI Music, Bertrand was a co-founder of Bragster.com, the social network for daredevils (acquired by Guinness World Records) and worked at the Boston Consulting Group and at Amazon.com where he launched the DVD Rental business across Europe. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School

Geoff Cottrill

Chief Marketing Officer, Converse
Geoff Cottrill joined Converse, Inc. in November 2007 as Chief Marketing Officer. He leads global brand development as well as marketing strategy and brand management functions including advertising, sports marketing, brand design, digital, communications, and retail marketing.

Recently, chosen as Marketer of the Year by AdWeek in 2010, Converse's award winning marketing initiatives include its Three Artists, One Song series, Connectivity, Spark and Domaination campaigns that have garnered worldwide attention.

Cottrill brings more than 25 years of marketing experience to the Converse brand. Prior to joining Converse, he was Vice President, Global Entertainment for Starbucks where he led marketing for music, film, literature and digital related products.

Cottrill also spent more than nine years at The Coca-Cola Company as Group Director Worldwide, Entertainment Marketing, where he led global music strategy, film and television integration and celebrity and product placement marketing efforts. Prior to working for Coca-Cola, he worked for Procter & Gamble, Co. for 11 years in various sales and marketing roles.

Cottrill is a graduate of Florida State University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics.

Len Schlesinger

President, Babson College
Len Schlesinger became President of Babson College in 2008 after serving as Vice Chairman and COO of Limited Brands. He also spent over 20 years teaching at Harvard Business School, where he led MBA and executive education programs and was architect and chair of Harvard Business School's MBA Essential Skills and Foundations programs. He is author or co-author of eleven books, including Just Start: Take action, Embrace uncertainty, Create the future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). At Babson he has led a strategy of broadening the method for teaching entrepreneurship--Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®--extending the context through Entrepreneurship of All Kinds®, and taking Babson's pedagogy to the world. In 2011, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities named him the Most Entrepreneurial University President in the U.S.

Allen Bargfrede

Executive Director, Rethink Music
Allen Bargfrede is Executive Director of the Rethink Music Initiative at Berklee College of Music, overseeing the Rethink Music conference as well as Berklee's research initiatives in the music industry. He also serves as director of music business programs for Berklee Valencia. Allen's background includes over 10 years of experience practicing law, including private practice as an entertainment attorney and time as in-house counsel to technology firms. He is the co-author of Music Law in the Digital Age, a handbook explaining the basics of copyright and music distribution online. He holds a JD and BA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA from Northwestern University.

Seth Godin

Author
Business Week's "Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age," Seth Godin is a best-selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. He has written 13 best-selling books that have been translated into more than 35 languages. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. Godin's second book, Unleashing the Ideavirus, is the most popular e-book ever published, and in 2003, his book Purple Cow was the #1 bestselling marketing book on Amazon. His other works include The Big Red Fez, Survival Is Not Enough, Free Prize Inside, All Marketers Are Liars, The Big Moo, Small is the New Big, and Meatball Sundae.

Steve Shapiro

Partner, Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP
Steve Shapiro is the Founding Partner of Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP, the Entertainment Law Firm with offices in New York and Beverly Hills. He specializes in the negotiation of complex financial transactions for multi-platinum artists, producers, writers and companies in the music, management, publishing and related media spaces.

Neil Gillis

President, Round Hill Music
Neil is currently the President of Round Hill Music, a brand new full service music publisher and creative music company effective 2011. Prior to that, Neil was the President, North America & Global Head Creative for S1 Songs America. He had held that role since July 1, 2007. Before that, Neil was the President & Chief Operating Officer of Dimensional Music Publishing, LLC (DMP). Prior to that, he was the General Manager (East Coast) for the Concord Music Group (CMG). Prior to the CMG, he was with Warner/Chappell Music (WCM) for 16 years. During the last 5 years of that tenure he was the Senior Vice President, Creative Music Solutions for WCM. In that role, he brought the massive WCM catalog to Madison Avenue, brought the catalog to the Video Game Community, worked on East Coast based film & TV projects, signed writers and catalogs, worked with developing artists and helped establish a creative business connection to many of the most important catalogs and writers within the WCM family. He got his corporate start at Cherry Lane Music as an intern back in the early 1980's. He has been a successful teacher, a recent post at Nassau Community College as an Adjunct Professor, lecturer (UCLA, USC, Baruch College, Berklee College of Music, University of the Pacific (UOP), New York University (NYU), Hofstra University, The Liverpool Institute, etc), writer (business column in the "Performing Songwriter" during the early 90's), contributions to many industry books including most recently Bobby Borg's "THE MUSICIANS HANDBOOK" (Billboard Books) and player (classically trained French Horn player and Jazz trained Guitar player) and composer (countless contributions to television shows and cartoons.

Steve Gawley

EVP of Universal/Motown Records
Steve Gawley is currently the Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Universal Republic & The Island Def Jam Music Group. Prior to that, Mr. Gawley served as Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, The Island Def Jam Music Group ("IDJ"), a role he had held since 2008. He came to IDJ from Arista Records, where he was Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs from 2000-2004. Prior to that he spent five years at BMG Entertainment, eventually being named Vice President, Worldwide Legal & Business Affairs in 1999. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Vickie Nauman

President, North American, 7digital
Vickie Nauman specializes in digital media and content strategy, the intersection of technology and music, and international business development. Nauman is President-North America for 7digital, leading all US strategy and business partnerships for the innovative London-based media company. Through online and cloud-based infrastructure, 7digital delivers over 17 million tracks from all major and indie labels throughout Europe and North America via www.7digital.com and for partners including T-Mobile USA, BlackBerry/RIM, Toshiba, HP/WebOS, Samsung, Pure, Shazam, Songbird and Phillips, Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, MTV, HMV, Waterstones, Sony, KitKat, Hugo Boss, Winamp, AOL and many innovative start ups.

Prior to joining 7digital, Nauman led the global content strategy and partnerships for Sonos, the wireless digital music system for the home; established the international consultancy CrossBorderWorks; created the online strategy and streaming service for boutique Seattle music station KEXP; plus content/product development for RealNetworks/MusicNet, marketing in the National Public Radio network, and sales at Procter and Gamble.

Nauman has a broad network and experience in Europe, China, and North America, and earned a 2006 MBA through the London School of Economics, New York University, and HEC-Paris, in the collaborative executive program TRIUM.

James Allworth

Senior Researcher, Forum for Growth and Innovation
James Allworth is former Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, a think tank devoted to developing the academic understanding of the innovation process with Professor Clayton Christensen. James writes regularly on the topics of innovation, technology and property rights for the Harvard Business Review, Business Insider and Reuters.

James is also the co-author of the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life (Harper Collins, May 2012).

He has previously worked at Apple Inc and Booz & Company, and served as a Director of Conservation Volunteers Australia, one of Australia's largest environmental not-for-profits.

James received an Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Information Technology from the Australian National University, where he graduated with First Class Honors. He also received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Mike King

Director of Marketing, Berkleemusic
Mike King is a course author, instructor, and the Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music. Prior to working at Berklee, he was the Marketing/Product Manager at Rykodisc, where he oversaw marketing efforts for label artists including Mickey Hart, Jeb Loy Nichols, Morphine, Jess Klein, Voices On The Verge, Bill Hicks, The Slip, Pork Tornado (Phish), Kelly Joe Phelps, and Frank Zappa's estate. Mike was the Director of Marketing and Managing Editor of Herb Alpert's online musician's resource, www.artistshousemusic.org, for three years.

Mike has written three courses for Berkleemusic: Online Music Marketing with Topspin; Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail; and Online Music Marketing: Campaign Strategies, Social Media, and Digital Distribution. He also teaches The Future of Music and the Music Business for Berkleemusic. His book, Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail was published by Berklee Press in 2009. Mike was recognized as the Best Music Business Teacher by the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP) in 2011.

Mike has written for Making Music magazine, International Musician, Hypebot, and American Songwriter, and has been quoted in The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Wired, CNN, The Boston Phoenix, The Chicago Tribune, Music Connection, and Muso. He's also presented at MIDEM, NAMM, NARM, SF Music Tech, Futures of Entertainment @ MIT, and Music 2.0.

Mike Bebel

Global Head of Music, Nokia
Mike joined Nokia in 2010 to drive new strategies and product direction in the company's music and entertainment services.

Before joining Nokia, Mike orchestrated the merger of Ruckus Networks with Total Music. Total Music was founded by Universal Music and Sony Music Enterprises, and the merged entity was chartered to develop a transformative digital distribution platform for the music industry.

From May 2003 until early 2004, Mike was president and chief operating officer of Napster, where he was responsible for overseeing all operations, including the launch of the new Napster 2.0 service in October 2003. He also earlier served as president and CEO of peer-to-peer music network Mashboxx.

From 1995 until 2003, Mike held various executive positions with Universal Studios and Universal Music Group, including a role as CEO of Pressplay, a joint venture between Universal and Sony Music that launched the initial online subscription model for music.

Mike holds an MBA in Management and Economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.

Jeffrey Toig

SVP, Muve Music
Jeff Toig is the Founder and Senior Vice President of Muve Music, a new state of the art digital music service that launched commercially in January 2011. Muve Music was developed and incubated within Cricket Communications/LEAP Wireless where Jeff served as Vice President of Product Management. Prior to Muve Music and Cricket, Jeff was a founder of Virgin Mobile USA. He spent 5 years building the company and held various leadership roles in data services, sales/distribution and marketing. Jeff was also a Partner with the strategy consulting firm CSMG that specializes in the Telecom & Media industries. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.

Bill Werde

Editorial Director, Billboard
As Billboard's Editorial Director, Bill Werde leads the editorial strategy and vision for the brand, which includes the weekly print publication, leading music fan site Billboard.com, business site Billboard.biz and other digital content offerings, as well as industry-leading conferences and events.

In the first year under the new ownership of Prometheus Global Media, Mr. Werde and his team have enhanced editorial coverage with interactive access to artists and exclusive reports, and increased full year web traffic on Billboard.com by 65% over the year prior as reported on Google Analytics. The recently upgraded consumer site won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Digital Media, New Design. New charts have been added to capture artists' reach all over the Internet, including the new Uncharted ranking for undiscovered musicians.

Mr. Werde joined Billboard in July 2005 as Senior News Editor and has steadily climbed the ranks of the organization, having been promoted to Deputy Editor and later Executive Editor of the brand.

Prior to Billboard, Mr. Werde was the Associate Editor for Rolling Stone. Before that he worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice and Wired Magazine writing about culture, politics, business and technology.

Mr. Werde frequently appears as a guest expert on the music industry for CNN, NPR, Today show, The Early Show, NBC Nightly News, Nightline, MSNBC, Fox Business, the O'Reilly Factor and others.

Please follow Bill on Twitter @Bwerde

Nils Gums

President, The Complex Group Inc.
Nils Gums has emerged as a progressive industry executive-to-watch in artist management. Identifying a loophole in which content could not be claimed by major labels or publishing companies, Gums saw an opportunity to create a significant artist development tool that has subsequently led to major-label recording and publishing deals for the artists on his management roster. In April 2011, his flagship client Karmin surprised the industry using this new strategy — a combination of search engine optimization and good old-fashioned A&R — recording their own versions of top pop hits and uploading them to YouTube as a way to showcase their unique sound and considerable musicianship. The gambit paid off. In less than eight months, Karmin's YouTube channels racked up more than 190 million views and more than 800,000 subscribers — a significant grassroots fanbase that Gums was able to leverage as he negotiated Karmin's deal with L.A. Reid's revamped Epic Records, who was intrigued by Gums' savvy vision for a new, social-network-driven artist development model. In addition, Gums' Karmin received an American Music Award for New Media in November 2011, performed on Saturday Night Live and on Ellen, and are currently charting on Billboard's Top 40 with their second single "Brokenhearted". After graduating with a B.A. in Music Business/Management from Berklee College of Music, Gums launched The Complex Group — a full-service artist development and management company that also houses a record label and a TV and film production arm. He also currently serves as a member of Berklee's Board of Trustees.

Karmin

Musical Group
KAR•MIN [car-men] – noun, in Latin meaning 'song,' with altered spelling to hint 'karma'

Karmin is a collision of Nick's Classic Rock upbringing and Jazz education (a trained trombonist) and Amy's R&B influence and Pop background. Together they found music at it's simplest form, percussion and voice. With the addition of guitar, Karmin pulls the listener back to a time where music was sincere and honest. Simplicity is key with this music!

Nick and Amy met at Berklee College of Music in Boston by way of small town lives in Old Town, Maine and Seward, Nebraska. They began writing songs together to meet the demands of school projects, but later took on the name "Karmin" to put an identity to their distinct writing style.

After working separately with several other groups, Nick and Amy decided to take their promising collaboration to the next level by performing around the East Coast as a duo.

"The Little Band with a Big Sound" – Karmin is Boston's premier acoustic pop sound. Armed with two voices, a guitar, and a wooden box; Nick and Amy put on a dynamic show – full of catchy pop tunes, feel-good ballads, and rock/hip-hop inspired concoctions! Their first CD, "Inside Out" was released in May 2010.

Andrew Hampp

Senior Correspondent Branding, Billboard
Andrew Hampp is Billboard's senior correspondent - branding, covering news and developing trends in artist endorsements, tour sponsorships, commercial licensing and other intersections of music and advertising for Billboard magazine, Billboard.com, Billboard.biz, and With The Brand, a new biweekly music-branding column. He is based in New York.

Hampp, a native of Tiffin, Ohio, came to Billboard in September 2011 from Advertising Age, where he spent five years covering media and entertainment in New York and Los Angeles. He most recently served as Los Angeles bureau chief from 2009 to 2011. Andrew covered a variety of industries, including cable TV, radio, out-of-home, entertainment and music and also contributed to events and special reports like Ad Age Digital, Digital West, Madison & Vine, Entertainment A-List and Media Evolved. Prior to joining Ad Age in 2006, Andrew covered music for the Columbus Dispatch.

Larry Rudolph

Chief Technology Officer, ReDigi Inc.
Larry Rudolph is currently the CTO and co-founder of ReDigi — The World's First Used Digital Music Marketplace.Professor Rudolph, had a long career as a professor of computer science, with a research focus first in supercomputers and then in "pervasive, human-centric computing" He was on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University, the Hebrew University, and since 1995 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is still an official affiliate member of the CSAIL Lab at MIT. Before founding ReDigi, Larry was at VMWare, where he helped found their Mobile Virtualization Program. He has published over a hundred academic research papers, several books including one on Bluetooth, and about two dozen patents.

Ori Lavie

VP of Mobile Strategy, Conduit Mobile
Ori is responsible for leading Conduit Mobile's product strategy. For over 13 years, Ori has been providing management and technological expertise to several industry-leading companies in the Internet and communications market, and has gained invaluable knowledge on incubating startups and fostering technological innovation. Before joining Conduit, Ori served as COO of trendIT, where he was responsible for both the company's operational side and its commercial aspects. Prior to that, Ori was VP, Business Development, for the IMA (Israel Mobile Association), where he led the IMA's global business development strategy. Ori holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel.

GZA/The Genius

Artist
GZA/The Genius is a founding member of the seminal hip hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. GZA boasted some high-profile appearances on the group's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), including one of only two solo tracks, "Clan in da Front."

GZA's 1995 solo effort, Liquid Swords, produced entirely by RZA, met with critical and commercial acclaim, and is largely considered one of the best albums to come out of the Wu-Tang camp. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums of all time.

GZA's subsequent solo projects were all received to great critical acclaim: Beneath the Surface (1999); Legend of the Liquid Sword (2002); Grandmasters (2005) with DJ Muggs (the producer for hip-hop group Cypress Hill) which saw GZA using chess as a metaphor for the rap game; and finally, Pro Tools (2008) featured production from past collaborators RZA, Mathematics, and True Master.

GZA has recently lectured at Harvard, Oxford, USC, MIT, NYU and Cornell.

GZA's next album entitled DARK MATTER will be released on BabyGrande in 2012.

Rich Holtzman

Manager, Tao Organization
Rich Holtzman has over 20 years experience in the music business. His first 15 years were spent at indie labels; from the cutting edge IRS Records and the legendary 4AD label to the progressive business model labels Atomic Pop and iMusic/Reincarnate. Rich started interning as a college student, and quickly attained a full time position doing Radio Promotion and A&R at IRS Records. During his 10 years at the trend-setting 4AD label he dealt with all aspects of the business as the North American Label Manager. After a jump into the dot com world--at Atomic Pop as the VP of Marketing and Label Manager--he would accomplish many firsts and make many discoveries in the developing online music business. At iMusic/Reincarnate, Rich developed the company into one of the first "a la carte" or "self service" record labels: a business model where all records earned a profit and every artist controlled their rights and marketing. After spending time on the corporate side, he saw the changing influence of record labels and was eager to get back to the creative side of the business--thus launching his career as an artist manager. Today, Rich works at The Artists Organization as an Artist Manager focusing on expanding the roster and building the profile of the company.

Stefanie Henning

General Manager, The Berklee Music Network
Stefanie Henning serves as the General Manager for The Berklee Music Network. Prior to her role at the Network, Stefanie was Chief Marketing Officer for Berkleemusic.com, Berklee's award-winning continuing education division.

Before joining Berkleemusic, Stefanie was senior vice president, global marketing and new media for Fox Television Studios, a division of News Corporation, spearheading the development of web and mobile series, sponsorship deals, and marketing strategies to build audiences for original brands as well as popular cable shows such as "Burn Notice" and "Saving Grace.

Stefanie was vice president of business development for Universal Music Group (UMG), spearheading the launch of the label's digital music business. Before joining UMG, she was recruited by Macromedia (now Adobe) to launch Shockwave.com. As vice president of acquisitions, Stefanie oversaw the acquisition and development of games, music, and story-based content, introducing the breakthrough technology to the entertainment community, including creative pioneers such as Madonna, David Lynch and Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

Stefanie forged new ground in 1994, when she co-founded the New Media Division of International Creative Management (ICM), integrating for the first time innovative new media strategies with the agency's corporate and entertainment clients.

Originally from New York, Stefanie received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Amaechi Uzoigwe

Head of Content & Business Affairs, Official.fm
Amaechi Uzoigwe is Head of Content & Business Affairs for Official.fm, which provides leading-edge technology solutions for music professionals to more efficiently and intelligently optimize their digital music experience.

A longtime label owner and artist manager prior to joining Official.fm, Amaechi co-founded the legendary independent hip hop label Definitive Jux, spearheading the label's groundbreaking e-commerce platform and helping to innovate the DIY direct-to-fan e-commerce model.
At World's Fair management group, he and his partners provided artist and label management solutions for a variety of clients including The Flaming Lips, J Dilla, Daptone/Sharon Jones, Devendra Banhart, Jarvis Cocker, Rough Trade, Fabric London and El-P.

As co-proprietor of the PLUG Awards (2001-2008), Amaechi developed the most recognized and credible platform for celebrating the achievements of the independent music industry.

Amaechi was also a founding board member of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM).

He received Bachelor's Degree in Literature, Science & the Arts from the University of Michigan.

Andrea Johnson

Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music
Andrea "Ani" Johnson, Associate Professor of Music Business at Berklee College of Music is an educator and entrepreneur focused on Music Licensing, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Management and Entertainment Industry Startups. She recently interviewed Gloria Estefan on the launch of her first independent release Miss Little Havana produced and written with Pharrell Williams. This winter, she spoke on Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry at the International MIDEM Conference in Cannes, France and presented a paper on Music Supervision at the 2012 MEIEA Summit in Los Angeles.

Previously, she consulted for Chris Blackwell at Palm Pictures/Rykodisc and licensed over 30 albums for artists such as Elton John, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Fleetwood Mac. As Accounting Manager for Gloria Estefan, she restructured their financial systems and supervised production budgets, licenses and royalties for their Sony Music venture.

She recently published, "Music Supervisors and Synchronization Licensing" in the Music Business Journal and developed master's curriculum in International Licensing for Global Entertainment Studies at Berklee Valencia. She owns MonoMyth Media, a Music Supervision company in the Boston (Hollywood East) market. She thanks the people at Midem for the opportunity to present and looks forward to meeting each of you! Follow Ani at www.twitter.com/recdmavn or http://www.linkedin.com/in/recdmavn

Andrew Mains

COO, Mobile Roadie
Andrew Mains is Chief Operating Officer of Mobile Roadie. As COO, Andrew oversees business development, grow our global sales team, and manage day-to-day operations. Andrew is a digital music and entertainment industry veteran with extensive experience helping artists, managers and labels deepen engagement with fans.

Previously, Andrew served as VP, Sales and Marketing at Topspin Media. During his time there, he brought new artists and brands to the Topspin platform while educating and guiding managers, record labels and distributors on the best ways to approach direct to consumer marketing and commerce. He also helped in the European expansion of Topspin last year.

Prior to working at Topspin, Andrew was Head of New Media at Universal Music Group's Interscope Records where he guided the digital marketing efforts of artists such as Eminem, Gwen Stefani and U2, while participating in innovative partnerships with some of the industry's biggest brands.

Caroline Daniels, Ph.D.

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Babson College
Caroline Daniels, Ph.D. teaches in the Entrepreneurship and Technology Divisions at Babson College. She teaches business modeling and is a lead faculty member in the Babson Butler Accelerator at Babson College. Dr. N. Caroline Daniels has an MSM, MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School and a PhD from the London Business School in Global Strategy and Technology.

Dr. Daniels' research covers Future Trends and Entrepreneurial Strategy. She has worked on the development of global business and technology strategies for numerous startups and the following larger corporations: IBM, Apple, the Economist, Financial Times, Ford of Europe, Boots Pharmaceutical, Shell Oil, GlaxoSmithKline, Chartham Paper Mills, New York Life, Bank of Ireland, Aetna, Marks & Spencer, Media Companies, and other leading corporations. She has facilitated multi-client studies for The Economist Group on the future of business.

Dr. Daniels has written for the Economist, the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Financial Times, and has published several books on Globalization and Information Technology with McGraw-Hill and the Pearson Group (Addison-Wesley).

Dr. Daniels has been awarded the International Association of Management Consulting Firms Award for Literary Excellence. Caroline has been a speaker on topics including: Globalization, Transforming Business with Information Technology, and Entrepreneurship. She is currently conducting research on entrepreneurial strategy, the scalability of new ventures, and the coordination of executive decision-making in growing, global corporations.

Liz Leahy

CEO, Section 101
Liz Leahy is the founder and CEO of Section 101, a New York based company that delivers a dynamic web-based solution providing simple and effective tools for music brands to manage and maximize their online presence. The leading edge platform enables clients to create beautiful, personalized websites that are easy to use, while providing a powerful suite of integrated tools designed to organize and leverage their fan base across a growing number of online and social media channels.

As a founding principle of Bigfoot Interactive, one of the first web and email companies, Liz worked to bring brands like Disney, New Line Cinema and AT&T in to the online world. For the past ten years Liz has focused her work on the entertainment industry as she is passionate about the power of the web, and the control and opportunities it provides artists for their long-term success. An expert in the field of online marketing, Liz is a mentor to students attending Columbia Business School and is frequently asked to moderate and speak on panels at conferences including SXSW, NXNE, New Music Seminar, CMJ, ASCAP Expo and more.

Her familiarity and success within the entertainment space has solidified Liz as a thought leader in digital marketing, branding and fan management. Leading music artists like Duran Duran, Kina Grannis, BUSH, Diane Birch, Rachael Yamagata, Marc Cohn, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Junip, Early Winters, Hesta Prynn and many others rely on Section 101 technology to power their digital presence.

Linda Chorney

Artist
Linda Chorney was born before the war. She started singing as a fetus. She received a standing ovation in the delivery room and has been singing ever since.

In 2011, Chorney was the first person in history to get nominated for a Grammy for "Best Americana Album" (Emotional Jukebox), by using social media for her campaign, as a virtually unknown, unsigned artist. Her nomination received worldwide press. She is currently writing a book about her experience to be released in 2012.

Chorney quotes. "I'm not even an Indy, I'm an Outie", as the owner of her label, Dance More Less War Records, where she has released and self-produced all of her albums.

Linda's has recorded 6 CD's, 3 cassettes, won 0 Grammys, has performed on all 7 continents, but only 1 planet. Her goal is to get 1 Grammy and sing on 2 planets.

Highlights in her career thus far have been breaking the Top 40 Adult Contemporary Charts, and singing for Nelson Mandela, in front of a crowd of 250,000 in Boston. And of course playing in Sports bars where no one is listening.

On April 21st, 2012, Linda's lifetime dream of singing the National Anthem at Fenway became a reality. She started it low so she could nail the big notes.

Chorney Quote's, "Just because it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting, but sometimes, putting it to music does."

Chris Lighty

Manager, Primary Violator Management
As the eldest of six kids with a single mother who worked several jobs to survive in the Bronx River Projects, Chris used the music business as his exit strategy. Though offered a scholarship to college, Lighty took a job as an electrician to make money and carried crates for top hip-hop DJ Red Alert. In 1988, this gig led Chris to Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen's Rush Management, where he learned about marketing and branding from those early hip-hop leaders. Lighty took everything he learned and started Violator, which has represented such high-profile artists as LL Cool J, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, and Sean Combs; and later Brand Asset Group which applies Lighty's branding and deal-making formula to new acts. Lighty has built his stable of artists into individual branding empires, each worth more than $200 million, with deals across video games, fragrance, beverage and clothing lines.

Zahavah Levine

Director of Content, Android
A veteran in digital music, Zahavah has been with Google for over five years and currently leads the licensing strategy for Music on GooglePlay, including negotiations with record labels and music publishers. Previously she was Chief Counsel for YouTube where she oversaw music licensing and directed copyright and rights management policies, including the development of YouTube's industry-leading Content ID platform.

Prior to Google and YouTube, Zahavah was Associate General Counsel & Director of Music Licensing for RealNetworks, Inc., where she was responsible for licensing across all of Real's services including Rhapsody, RadioPass and SuperPass. Over the years, Zahavah has represented Listen.com, RealNetworks, YouTube and Google in the Digital Media Association (DiMA), the industry trade association that promotes a healthy business and licensing environment for online entertainment services.

Zahavah received her JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley and her BA in History from Brown University.

Richard Conlon

Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, BMI
As Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, Richard Conlon heads up BMI's marketing, advertising, media relations, and planning efforts, along with its New Media and Strategic Development Group, which manages the development of revenue streams for BMI's songwriters and music publishers in the digital world across all new media applications. The group also spearheads analysis, planning and strategic development for BMI's future directions in the media and entertainment worlds. Under his direction, BMI's New Media group has created innovative licensing agreements for a wide variety of leading digital media properties including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, MP3.com, Napster, Rhapsody and others. In addition, the team has negotiated royalty agreements with leading mobile entertainment providers ranging from carriers to aggregators for mobile TV, ringbacks and other entertainment and information services delivered to cell phones. An executive with BMI for over 15 years, Conlon holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and B.A. in English from Boston College.

Jackie Indrisano

Venue Manager/Talent Buyer, Berklee College of Music
Homegrown and unconventional is how I would describe my so-called fabulous life in the music industry. Truth is; it's fabulous and has been ever since I booked my first band when I was 17. The band was called Destiny. I rented the K of C, booked the band, sold over 300 tickets, made a profit and avoided any police smack downs. The seed was planted and I went on to do the following: go to college, have a college radio gig, intern at the #1 rock station in Boston (WBCN), do voice-over work, land a waitressing job at the Hard Rock Café, graduate from Northeastern University, market the Hard Rock Café, intern at the infamous Rat in Boston, book the Rat in Boston, promote various bands, book various bands, go back to my alma mater and book their new private/on-campus venue, graduate from Grad School, at Northeastern University, do a brief stint at Harvard, land the dream job at Berklee College of Music, manage and book The Red Room @ Café 939. My parents NEVER thought I would graduate college let alone grad school and have a life in music let alone the fact that my dad thought I was a bookie for a very long time.

Michael Creamer

Event Manager/Talent Buyer, Berklee College of Music
Michael is a Grammy Nominated Artist Manager based in Boston, MA. Michael has been managing bands for over 20 years and currently represents Kim Taylor, Mean Creek, Oteil Bubridge, Letters to Cleo, Superdrag and Kay Hanley, to name a few. He has worked with both indie artists and major label artists. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2009 for Best Historical Box Set for The Woody Guthrie "My Dusty Road" which he helped produce. Michael has successfully had his artists songs placed in Film and TV. Michael also produces many successful charity events including Theo & Paul Epstein's "Hot Stove, Cool Music". 
In November 2011, Michael began working at Berklee College of Music's venue, Cafe 939 as Talent Buyer/Venue Manager.

Stephen Webber

Professor, Berklee College of Music
Stephen Webber is recognized as a progressive voice in music academia, receiving the 2010 Best Online Course Award from the University Continuing Education Association for his Berklee Music Online course, Music Production Analysis. His book Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ is the first to teach the turntable as a musical instrument, and his Stylus Symphony (www.stylussymphony.net) got the attention of DJ Premier, who recently collaborated with Webber and hip-hop artist Nas on a classical piece documented in the film Regenerations Music Project. An Emmy Award winning composer, Webber also plays piano, classical guitar, 5-string banjo and mandolin, and has appeared in concert with Kathy Mattea, Bela Fleck and Earl Scruggs.