Cherie Hu is an award-winning music journalist, keen on unveiling how emerging music markets, technologies and tastemakers make their dent in the status quo. She is a contributing writer and editor for Billboard and Forbes, and has also written regularly about the music industry for publications like Music Ally and Cuepoint over the last two years. In September 2017, she received the Reeperbahn Festival's inaugural award for International Music Business Journalist of the Year. Previously, Hu worked at Ticketmaster, Interscope, Jamplify and Harvard Business School, in roles spanning product marketing, data analysis and A&R.