CMJ 2012: Full Schedule

11:00am EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Industry Shifts

An opportunity for aspiring executives to engage in a boardroom meeting environment. Each meeting will have two well established industry professionals running an agenda. Attendees will be challenged to think, share, and generate ideas pertaining to the topic at hand.

Panelists

Cathy Bauer

Cathy Bauer has dedicated her career to the independent music community. Ms. Bauer worked her way up the ranks at Lookout Records from the era of Mr. T Experience and The Hi-Fives to Ted Leo and Pretty Girls Make Graves. She later served clients, worked with the engineering scrum... Read More →

Rich Bengloff

Rich Bengloff is the President of the American Association of Independent Music (“A2IM”), a not-for-profit trade organization that represents over 290 dues paying Independent music labels located across the country stretching from Hawaii to Florida, that have banded together to... Read More →

Monday October 15, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Badge-holder Opportunity Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings

11:00am EDT

The Pitch Party: A Daily Lane for Opportunity (Influential Pros)

A panel of professionals from various yet critical worlds listen and respond to your media pitch. A different mix of panelists every day, including figures from record label A&R, publishing, radio, music supervision and entertainment law, will offer candid feedback and who knows what else?

Panelists

Kid Capri

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Jim Dunbar

Jim Dunbar is an award winning New York based music supervisor and record producer. He has worked on over 50 feature films. Credits include Boardwalk Empire, Revolutionary Road, I'm Not There, Zodiac, The Aviator, Boys Don't Cry. Prior to his film career Jim was on the A&R staff at... Read More →

Jake Gold

Jake Gold is one of Canada’s most successful artist managers and has been an active force in the Canadian music industry for over 30 years. In 1986, Gold started his own artist management company The Management Trust Ltd. and shortly after began transforming The Tragically Hip into... Read More →

Bob Kaminsky

Bob is a partner in Riptide Music one of Hollywood’s leading music licensing companies providing music to films, television, games, trailers and commercials. Riptide represents the work of 200 plus artists. In his career he served as a Director of A&R at A&M Records and went on... Read More →

Erik Philbrook

VP/Marketing + Creative Director, ASCAP

Erik Philbrook is AVP of Communications & Media for ASCAP and serves as Editor in Chief of Playback, ASCAP's magazine. In addition to creating video and editorial content and overseeing the Society’s various media channels, he has played an important role in the success of the ASCAP... Read More →

Tuesday October 16, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 802 Shorin, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Badge-holder Opportunity

12:30pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Artist Management

Ever wanted to get a one on one session with a trusted pro from the music industry? Kickstart your career as an executive by receiving vital advice from important figures who have seen it all and are willing to share their experiences with laser-like guidance.

Panelists

Lindsay Brandt

Lindsay Brandt is a music manager who has been apart of the Mick Management team since early 2006. She signed critically acclaimed up and coming band WALK THE MOON to the Mick roster in early 2011. Previous to that, she ran all digital platforms and marketing plans for artists including... Read More →

Maryelizabeth Carter

Maryelizabeth Carter Owner, The Underground Management maryelizabeth@theundergroundmanagement.com Maryelizabeth Carter is owner of The Underground Management with more than 19 years of working in the music industry under her belt. Her vast experience helped build the company by developing... Read More →

Christina Contardo

Esq.

Seth Kallen

Seth Kallen is a manager at MCT Management, working closely with artists such as Jukebox the Ghost, Savoir Adore, Ambassadors, Adam Green, Nina Persson (The Cardigans), Fran Healy (Travis), and more. He lives in NYC, graduated from NYU's Clive Davis Department at Tisch, and is a lover... Read More →

Tuesday October 16, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Badge-holder Opportunity Career Counseling Music Panel

12:30pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Artist Project Development

Panelists

Jason Foster

Jake Friedman

Daniel Glass

Daniel Glass is Founder/President of Glassnote Entertainment Group, a full service independent music company which began in 2007. Glassnote is the proud home to Grammy Award winning Phoenix, Grammy nominated and double platinum selling Mumford & Sons, The Temper Trap, Two Door Cinema... Read More →

Tuesday October 16, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

2:00pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Publishing/Licensing/Synch

Panelists

Joyce Dollinger

Entertainment Lawyer, Dollinger, Gonski & Grossman

Joyce Dollinger is a NY & FL attorney and entrepreneur who has been practicing law and working with entertainment businesses, innovators and individuals for over 15 years. She has worked with many indie musicians and for music and media businesses such as BMG, Cyber PR, Island Records... Read More →

Ed Gerrard

Ed Gerrard is a co-founder of Impact Artist Management whose roster includes legendary blues artist Dr. John. Gerrard began his entertainment career some 20 years ago working as an apprentice to the legendary music manager and film producer Shep Gordon. Ed became the first in-house... Read More →

Brandon Haas

As Head of Publishing for Glassnote Entertainment's publishing arm, Four Song Night, Brandon Haas knows a thing or two about music publishing and careers in songwriting. Prior to joining Glassnote, Brandon was Associate Director, Writer/Publisher Relations at BMI. He has also held... Read More →

Steven Scharf

Steven Scharf's 43 years in the recording industry has covered areas of record producing, A&R, music publishing and the representation of record producers and film/tv composers. In 1991, he founded Steven Scharf Entertainment, a producer management company, and ventured with legendary... Read More →

Matt Thompson

CEO, Songfreedom

Matt Thompson runs the automated licensing platform, Songfreedom. His platform includes licensing deals with all majors and many indie labels, publishers, and artists.

Tuesday October 16, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Badge-holder Opportunity Career Counseling Music Panel

2:00pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Modern Artist Management

Panelists

Andrew Brightman

Andrew Brightman is an artist and producer manager based in Los Angeles. He has held A&R positions at A&M and Atlantic Records. He has landed over 30 major record and publishing deals for new artists over the years. He manages new artists on Universal Republic Records Baby Bee and... Read More →

Jaime Neely

Jaime Neely is originally from San Francisco, CA. He studied Music Industry and Communication at USC, and started in marketing at WBR shortly after graduation in 2006. In 2008, he began assisting on Rob Cavallo record productions, & became an A&R for WBR in 2010.

Tuesday October 16, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

3:30pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Publishing for Today's Market

Panelists

Fred Beteille Fred Beteille

-, Google

Fred Beteille is Chairman of the Music Business Association, where he works to advance and promote music commerce by finding common ground across a diverse industry and membership. As Head of Product Content Strategy at YouTube Music, Beteille helps spearhead music, artist and... Read More →

Ben Cockerham

Ben Cockerham is a product manager at YouTube, running operations for RightsFlow, a company he co-founded, which was acquired by Google in late 2011. At RightsFlow, Ben was the CFO and Chief Strategy Officer, overseeing corporate planning, finance, and business development operations... Read More →

Tuesday October 16, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

11:00am EDT

The Pitch Party: A Daily Lane for Opportunity (For Songwriters, Artists, Bands, and Beat-makers)

Panelists

David Hnatiuk

Dave Hnatiuk of Loud Love Media Group is a music for media producer / music supervisor as well as a published text-book author, sound designer, voice-over artist, and public speaker. In 1998 David built the first music department of the #1 rated Fox News Channel. It was here that... Read More →

Timothy Lincoln

Tim Lincoln is Senior Creative Director & Music Supervisor for Music Dealers' New York office, leading creative for the East Coast team. His "bilingual" expertise includes assisting clients develop their creative vision and then helping translate that vision into a musical language... Read More →

Riggs Morales

i handed in long form version

Amanda Schupf

Schupf joined Imagem Music USA in the newly created position of Creative Manager for Imagem Music in 2010. Based in New York City, Schupf works closely with Imagem Music's UK and Holland offices in the expansion of Imagem Music's pop music catalogue worldwide, as well as scouting... Read More →

David Weiss

Author, SonicScoop

David Weiss co-author of the book Music Supervision: The Complete Guide to Selecting and Licensing Music & Sound Design for Media, (Schirmer Trade Books), www.musicsupervisioncentral.com. He is also the co-founder of www.thesonghunters.com, a song discovery service for music supervisors... Read More →

Jeremy Yohai

Jeremy Yohai started his career at ASCAP, where he spent seven years recruiting and helping the career development of emerging songwriters including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Diplo and Dr. Dog, among others. Jeremy then joined Downtown Music Publishing in 2008, where he... Read More →

Wednesday October 17, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 802 Shorin, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Badge-holder Opportunity

11:00am EDT

The Pitch Party: A Daily Lane for Opportunity (Label A&R)

Panelists

Lindsey Cook

Lindsey Cook currently does A&R for RCA, specializing in rock/alternative music. She has held past A&R positions at MySpace Records, Shangri-La Music, and Universal Music Publishing Group.

Mollie Moore

Work at Capitol, loves the music.

Ryan Murphy

Started career as an intern at Capitol Records LA in 2003. Has been working in A&R at various EMI Recorded Music labels in NY since 2005. Current projects include; Tristan Prettyman, Diamond Rings, Foxy Shazam and You Me At Six. Also handles remixes for various artists across EMI's... Read More →

Marc Nicolas

A&R, Glassnote Music

Marc Nicolas began his career working along side producer managers and music publishers in the Los Angeles Area. In the 4th quarter of 2011 Marc joined the Glassnote family to head up their West Coast Division. His roles there included leading Glassnote's licensing department & sitting... Read More →

Dante Ross

Dante Ross is largely known for his contributions to the so called golden era of HipHop. He was an a and r person first at Tommy Boy records where he had a hand in the careers of De La Soul, Queen Latifah (who he discovered) and Digital Underground. Mr. Ross then went to work for... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 802 Shorin, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Badge-holder Opportunity

11:00am EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Discussions on A&R Evolvement

Panelists

Alex Luke

Alex Luke is currently EVP of A&R for EMI Music, working with developing and established artists across the Astralwerks, Virgin and Capitol Records rosters. He previously managed the global music programming and label relations teams at iTunes and Napster, and established some of... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

12:30pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Touring Industry

Panelists

John Bambino

I Am Bambino

Mehmet DEDE

As an art presenter, festival curator and tour producer, Mehmet DEDE has been involved in booking hundreds of local, national and international artists in the last 15 years. As co-founder of the NY Gypsy Festival, he has hosted shows with nearly 100 artists, including Gogol Bordello... Read More →

Jackie Giffune

Head of Touring Indegoot Entertainment

Jackie Indrisano

I graduated from Northeastern University, marketed the Hard Rock Café, interned at the infamous Rat in Boston, booked the Rat in Boston, promoted & booked various bands, managed and booked NU’s private/on-campus venue, graduated from Grad School at Northeastern University, did... Read More →

Zachary James

"His guitar rushes through the speakers and has all the strength and emotion of Motown’s finest" -Guitar World Magazine Zachary James is a Los Angeles based musician who, at the young age of 24, has been in the industry for nearly a decade. At 15, James collaborated with Grammy-award... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Badge-holder Opportunity Career Counseling Music Panel

12:30pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Start Up Revolution

Panelists

Panos Panay

Panos Panay is founder and ceo of Sonicbids, a social music marketing platform that connects bands, promoters, consumer brands and music fans. Panos launched Sonicbids in 2001 with just $50,000 in startup capital and with a basic mission: great music should always find an audience... Read More →

Tony van Veen

As CEO and president of AVL Digital Group, Tony van Veen has spent the past 25 years helping independent artists release, distribute, and promote their own music and movies. CD Baby, the largest independent music store and digital distributor in the world with over 4.5 million songs... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

2:00pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: International Interests

Panelists

Graham Ashton

Asho left home and school at an early age to sing in punk rock bands. He realized quickly that it was better for everybody that he stayed on the other side of the stage. In the 90’s he managed bands and started up the indie punk label Emily Records. Asho annoyed everyone in the... Read More →

Fiona Bloom

Publicist/Social Media/Curator, The Bloom Effect

With over 18+ years in the entertainment industry- music industry maven Fiona Bloom launched The Bloom Effect in 2007. A unique one stop that specializes in branding for artists, labels, and lifestyle companies. The Bloom Effect brings a huge roladex of global contacts from around... Read More →

Claire Courtney

Booking Agent, NoManIs

Nomanis is a boutique International music booking agency based in London UK. We have an exciting roster that we are very proud to be working with. I personally have been working booking worldwide tours for the past 12 years, joining Nomanis 18 months ago.

Jaime Gough

Jaime is International Manager at Native Tongue Music Publishing, an independent music publisher with offices in Melbourne, Auckland and London. Native Tongue represent some of Australia & New Zealand's finest songwriters, including: Strange Talk, Dave Dobbyn, Don McGlashan, The... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Badge-holder Opportunity Career Counseling Music Panel

2:00pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Record Labels

Panelists

David Bason

Artist Manager, A&R/Publishing/Film & Television executive, label owner, storyteller, singer songwriter, reggae nerd, falafel expert, caffeine freak, good dude, i swear.

Ben Collins

I have worked in the music business since the age of 15 playing in bands and releasing records. My label has worked with major label partners such as Epic, Atlantic and currently Warner Brothers Records with a focus on early artist development.

A.J. Kasen

I do a bit of everything. Although, I'm pretty new in writing my own bio. I've been at LAVA for the last 3 years. Currently working on The Royal Concept and Ida Maria. I'm also involved in other cool stuff like Jessie J, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Black Veil Brides.

Harinder Rana

Harinder helped sign/A&R Jessie J with Jason Flom. Recently he has signed CJ Holland and Katy Tiz who are creating an amazing buzz in the creative community.

Thursday October 18, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Career Counseling Badge-holder Opportunity

2:00pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Digital Marketing Traction

Panelists

Russell Fink

Sr. Vice President Digital and Mobile Edit Island Def Jam Music Group/Universal Republic January 2012 – Present Vice-President Digital and Mobile Edit Island Def Jam Music Group Public Company; 201-500 employees; Music industry May 2007 – December 2011 Sr. Director Digital... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Music-Tech Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

3:30pm EDT

Silver Boardroom Meetings: Social Media Movements

Panelists

Jaclyn Ranere

Jaclyn oversees industry and client marketing for each product developed by The Orchard, as well as business development and partner relations for The Orchard's Marketplace. Since joining The Orchard in 2004, Jaclyn has launched the Retail Marketing and Interactive Marketing departments... Read More →

Tierney Stout

As Director of Interactive Marketing at The Orchard, Tierney Stout oversees digital marketing campaigns for labels like Daptone Records, Nuclear Blast Records, Barsuk Records, and Frenchkiss Records. Tierney has been at The Orchard since 2010, and before The Orchard, she was a publicist... Read More →

Thursday October 18, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 914 (Silver Board Room), 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Music-Tech Silver Boardroom Meetings Badge-holder Opportunity

11:00am EDT

The Pitch Party: A Daily Lane for Opportunity (Music Publishers and Supervisors)

Panelists

Ricki Askin

Ricki Askin is the Music Supervisor for VICE Media, Inc, clearing all the music in all of VICE’s many online franchises including “The Creator’s Project,” “VICE Guide to Travel” and “VICE News.” She recently Music Supervised VICE Film’s much-buzzed about film, “Reincarnated... Read More →

Cindi Avnet

Director of Music Placement for MusicSupervisor.com, Cindi Avnet seeks out new talent for pitching to film/tv placement. Cindi liaisons with the top music executives at all the major studios including Disney/Touchstone/ABC, Sony, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and others... Read More →

Vlad Bar

Vlad Bar has done A&R at Capitol, Virgin, Mercury and Jive Records where he worked with artists such as Sum 41, The Decemberists and Sean Lennon. He most recently entered the world of music publishing by running the publishing arm of Frenchkiss Records.

Michelle Curran

Michelle Curran began her career as head of promotions at both Island and London Records working with such notable artists as U2, Grace Jones, Bob Marley, Robert Palmer, leading to an extensive network within the music industry. Michelle set up and ran Logorhythm Music and the Real... Read More →

David Weiss

Author, SonicScoop

Friday October 19, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 802 Shorin, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Badge-holder Opportunity

11:00am EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Music Marketing

Panelists

Jason Hobbs

Head of Marketing, FOUND

With agency experience developing interactive marketing strategies for companies earning upwards of over $1 billion dollar a year revenue, Jason Hobbs is the president of FOUND. FOUND itself brings a new approach to marketing in the entertainment industry--full cycle marketing, with... Read More →

Mike King

Mike King is a course author, instructor, and the Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic, the online continuing education division of Berklee College of Music. Mike has written three courses for Berkleemusic: Online Music Marketing with Topspin; Music Marketing: Press, Promotion... Read More →

Michelle Mayumi McDevitt

Michelle McDevitt is the president of Audible Treats, a boutique entertainment marketing and publicity company located in Brooklyn. Before Audible Treats, Michelle spun records as a college DJ at UC Santa Cruz for 3 years, assisted mega-hit producer Narada Michael Walden (Mariah Carey... Read More →

Susan Scotti

www.lastcallagency.com Susan Scotti grew up in a household of musicians, and began working in the music industry in 2002 managing clubs, then on to managing, booking and promoting artists in Boston and nationally. She has worked with many award-winning bands and solo artists, and... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Career Counseling Badge-holder Opportunity

2:00pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Start-ups

Panelists

Mikal Celentano

Mikal Celentano founded and heads operations for Hotathon.com a platform to cross promote musical artists and charities. She is a leader in marketing, premium goods and operations. Mikal spent 17 years in product management, marketing, international marketing and ecommerce at Tumi... Read More →

Catherine Radbill

Catherine is Director of the NYU Undergrad Music Business Program. Her new book, Introduction to the Music Industry: An Entrepreneurial Approach,is a must-read for every musician or music fan who is contemplating a career in today's entertainment industry.

Harold Stephan

Harold Stephan is the co-creator of Study With A Star which offers live online private lessons with star musicians who play with superstar artists like Adele, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Josh Groban, Avril Lavigne, Bruce Springsteen and many others. As one half of New York City based... Read More →

Alex White

Head & Co-Founder, Next Big Sound

Alex White co-founded Next Big Sound in 2008, while in his last semester at Northwestern University. The analytics service measures daily music consumption and purchase decisions around the globe. From Facebook fans to sales, Next Big Sound combines artist activity with context to... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2012 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Career Counseling Badge-holder Opportunity

3:30pm EDT

Career Counseling Meetings: Career Direction

Panelists

Wittmer

Michael Creamer

Michael Creamer is a Grammy Nominated Artist Manager based in Boston, MA. Michael has been managing bands for over 20 years and currently represents Kim Taylor, Todd Thibaud, Oteil Bubridge , Letters to Cleo, Superdrag, Kay Hanley to name a few. He has worked with both indie artists... Read More →

Joe D'Ambrosio

Joe D'Ambrosio Management, Inc.; Founder/CEOJoe D'Ambrosio is a 29 music business veteran who founded and runs his own talent management company representing some of the best 'behind-the-glass' talent working today. His clients include Tony Visconti, Hugh Padgham, Elliot Scheiner... Read More →

Kasey Fries

Kasey Fries is director of label relations for the distributor BFM Digital. In that role, she helps independent artists and labels navigate the tricky world of selling and streaming digital music online, advising on royalties, contracts, marketing and more. She is an A&R representative... Read More →

Michael Kauffman

Marketing, YouTube

Michael Kauffman serves the artist and creative community as Product Marketing Manager on the YouTube Creator Marketing team at Google. Prior to joining YouTube, Michael held senior corporate communications, content and product marketing and sales roles at RightsFlow, the HiFive... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
NYU Kimmel Ctr. Room 909, 60 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Music Panel Career Counseling Badge-holder Opportunity