Music Biz 2017

Bill got his start in the business when he founded NYC indie label Blackout! Records in 1989. Over the years he’s worked for Relativity, Caroline, Earache, and Atlantic, and has spent most of the last several years helping to reinvent the Music Business Association as VP of Digital... Read More →

Jonathan Bender is the COO of SoundExchange, a non-profit collective rights management organization that has distributed more than $5 billion in digital royalties for sound recordings to recording artists and rights owners since its inception in 2003. Bender has 25 years of experience... Read More →

David Hughes has 25 years’ experience in digital technology, focusing for the last 20 years on the online distribution of music. He joined the RIAA in Washington, DC in 2006, where he is currently the Chief Technology Officer. Hughes represents the recording industry’s technology... Read More →

Mark Isherwood is Secretariat at the Digital Data Exchange (DDEX), an organization developing standard messages and other supporting standards for the exchange of information relating to the management of digital media content and rights with the current focus on the music industry... Read More →

Paul Jessop is Founder and Director of County Analytics, Ltd., an independent consulting firm named for his 400-year-old home and office in rural England – County Cottage. County Analytics has a diverse range of clients in the media, entertainment and electronics industries, where... Read More →

Panos Panay is VP of Innovation & Strategy at Berklee College of Music, as well as the founding managing director of the Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship. He has also spearheaded the founding of the Open Music Initiative, which brings together over 250 industry leaders... Read More →