Speakers 2019 Tuesday | Pollstar Live! 2019

Tuesday 2019 Speakers

Tuesday, February 12

Wednesday, February 13

Dan Berkowitz

CID Entertainment

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Andy Bernstein

HeadCount

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Michele Bernstein

WME

John Boyle

Live Nation Japan

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Carl Breau

Saimen

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Brendan Buckley

Shakira

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Tony Castañeda

Cardenas Marketing Network

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Denise Colletta

City National Bank

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Tamara Conniff

Roc Nation Music Publishing

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Marty Diamond

Paradigm Talent Agency

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Kate Dordick

Spectrum Center

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Thomas Dürr

act entertainment ag

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Bruce Eskowitz

Red Light Management

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Ken Fermaglich

United Talent Agency

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Stephen Ferrone

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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Harlan Frey

Atlantic Records

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Stuart Galbraith

Kilimanjaro Live

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Margaret Galton

C3 Presents

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Tony Goldring

WME

Steve Gordon

United Talent Agency

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Kevin Griffin

Songwriter

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Elliot Groffman

Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian, LLP

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Dave Grohl

Grammy-winning Musician

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Leca Guimarães

C3 Presents

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Alex Hodges

Nederlander Concerts

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Jim James

My Morning Jacket

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Seth Kallen

This Fiction

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David Lindley

El Rayo-X

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Evangelia Livanos

Public Consumption Recording Company

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Sophie Lobl

C3 Presents

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Kevin Lyman

Kevin Lyman Group

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Mike Marquis

Paradigm Talent Agency

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Natalia Nastaskin

United Talent Agency

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Chris Nilsson

10th Street Entertainment

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Greg Oswald

WME

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Cheryl Paglierani

United Talent Agency

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Greg Parmley

ILMC

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Beth Paul

Bon Secours Wellness Arena

Alissa Pollack

iHeartMedia / Mediabase

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Rob Prinz

ICM Partners

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Jan Quiel

Wacken Open Air

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Michael Rapino

Live Nation

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John Reid

Live Nation

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Bob Roux

Live Nation

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Christoph Scholz

Semmel Concerts

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Andy Serrao

Fearless Records

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Joey Scoleri

Live Nation Canada

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Marika Anthony-Shaw

Arcade Fire

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Andrew Simon

CAA

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Emily Simonitsch

Live Nation

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Beatrice Stirnimann

Baloise Session

Barbara (Babs) Szabo

Emo Nite and Ride or Cry

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Crystal Taliefero

Vocalist/Percussionist/Producer

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Brett Tuggle

Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist

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Matt Urmy

Artist Growth

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Heather Vantress

Synergy Global Entertainment

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Emily White

Collective Entertainment

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Lillian Williams

O'Neil Hagaman

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David Zedeck

UTA

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Andy Bernstein helped found HeadCount in 2004, and became its executive director in the Spring of 2008. Under his leadership, the organization has registered over 500,000 voters, forged alliances with hundreds of musicians and entertainers, and produced dozens of highly-successful events and initiatives.

He has been a featured speaker at the South by Southwest music conference, and appeared as an expert commentator on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and several other television networks. He also oversaw production of public service announcements starring Jay-Z, Dave Matthews, members of the Grateful Dead and the boy band Brockhampton, the most recent of which was distributed by the Ad Council.
Andy was the architect tbehind “The Bridge Session,” a 2012 concert and webcast that brought together The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir of with members of The National for the first time - later, they recorded an album together.

Prior to creating HeadCount, Andy was best known in the music community as an author of "The Pharmer's Almanac", a guide to the band Phish that sold over 70,000 copies. He also worked in sports for over a decade, serving as media editor of Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal. and later as Vice President of U.S. Corporate Development at the technology company Kangaroo TV,

Since leaving sports to become HeadCount’s executive director, HeadCount’s “head count” has grown from a staff of four to over a dozen, with street teams in over 50 cities.

A 1994 graduate of Brown University, Bernstein resides in a slopeside condo at the Mountain Creek ski resort, not far from New York City. His pastime is posting harrowing GoPro videos of his skii adventures on social media.

John Boyle currently serves as President of Live Nation Japan, overseeing and leading Live Nation’s current business and future growth in Japan. Prior to this, as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Growth Officer of Live Nation’s Insomniac Events, Boyle led the company’s international expansion efforts expanding flagship festival Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), whose Las Vegas edition is the largest single-weekend festival in North America with 420,000 attendees, to London, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Delhi, Tokyo and Shanghai. Previously, Boyle was as an A&R and marketing executive at Giant Records, Virgin Records, and Warner Bros. Records. As a talent manager, he represented acts including actor and platinum rapper Xzibit, multi-platinum rock band Alien Ant Farm, and hip-hop legends Blackalicious. Boyle begin his career producing concerts for events such as the X Games and the US Open of Surfing, which led to helping launch the Vans Warped Tour and founding winter music festival SnoCore. Boyle holds a dual MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, as well as a BA in Economics from UCLA.

Carl Breau is a Canadian engineer based in Shanghai and is the General Manager of Saimen, a Chinese company with over 40 employees, specialized in managing China operations for multinational companies in the Entertainment domain. Saimen has already performed over 40 successful Chinese market entry projects with a number of North American and European companies. Among them, we count Cirque du Soleil, Samajam and Victoria’s Secret to name a few.

Carl Breau speaks fluent mandarin and is a frequent speaker and university lecturer on the topic of doing business in China, his expertise being China business and operations, marketing strategy and dealing with Chinese business partners.

Early Years – Brendan Buckley was born and raised in the New Jersey areas of Morristown and Mount Arlington. The accessibility to New York City during his childhood and high school years provided valuable musical inspiration.
The Miami Years – At the age of 18, Brendan packed his car and moved to Florida to attend the University of Miami’s School of Music. There, he became immersed in the city’s diverse rock, latin, and jazz scenes. While in school, he released an album with the rock band Fulano De Tal (bmg), featuring the artist Elsten Torres. A year later, he played drums with Julio Iglesias for his “Tango” world tour. Brendan finished this tour and recorded an album for the Colombian popstar Shakira; “Dónde Están Los Ladrones”. That quickly led to Shakira’s “MTV Unplugged”, “Anfíbio Tour”, “Tour of the Mongoose”, and co-writing/co-producing her album “Laundry Service”. Also during these Miami years, Brendan spent time recording/performing with DMX, Spam All-Stars, Nil Lara, Gloria Estefan, Alejandra Guzman, Julio Iglesias Jr, Lauren Hill, Pedro Suarez Vertiz, Natalia Oriero, Alicastro, Popvert, The Kind, Alih Jey, Zach Zisken, Monterosa, BD Lenz, María Bestar, Mariana Ochoa, Diane Ward, Raw B Jae, Clambake, Maria, and Sixo.

Los Angeles – In 2004, Brendan moved west to Los Angeles where he immediately joined the experimental rock band Pedestrian. Their work together can be heard on the album “Ghostly Life”. At the same time, Brendan began touring with the actress Minnie Driver for her “Pocket” tour. Brendan continued his work both in the studio and live with Shakira (Oral Fixation, Sale El Sol), while also producing records for Fulano (*grammy-nominated), Michael Miller, Volumen Cero, and The Kind.

In 2007, Brendan joined the irish folk artist, Damien Rice, for his “9 Crimes” world tour. This was followed by tours with broadway star Idina Menzel, former La Ley frontman Beto Cuevas, and the Canadian songsmith Daniel Powter. Around 2011, Brendan began touring/recording with a number of notable Asian superstars such as Leehom Wang, JJ Lin, Jason Zhang, David Tao, MIYAVI, Jam Hsiao, Daita Ito, Eason Chan, and Joanna Wang. Also during the past few years, Brendan had the opportunity to work with Miley Cyrus, Shelby Lynne, Roberto Carlos, Leighton Meester, Melissa Ethridge, The Bodeans, Aleks Syntek, Emmanuel, Dallas Austin, Gustavo Santaolalla, Alejandro Sanz, Debi Nova, Brie Larson, Ozomatli, Madame Recamier, Peter Himmelman, Wyclef Jean, Gustavo Cerati, Jackson Browne, Chayanne, Breaking Arrows, Joseph Arthur, Gary Jules, Pepe Aguilar, Richard Page, Laura Jansen, Taryn Southern, Peter Bradley Adams, Chris Stills, Willodean, Nathan Fox, Julia Harriman, G6, Susie Suh, Axel Muñiz, Maite Perroni, Both Thornley, and Boys School; while doing tv commercial jingles for Reebok, Pepsi, Hyundai, Marshalls, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.

At the moment, you can catch Brendan on the “Love You To Death” tour with indie pop artists TEGAN AND SARA, or making music locally in the Los Angeles area.

Tony Castañeda is CMN’s director and expert of music, touring and booking with over 25 years of industry experience under his belt. Through his tenure at CMN, Tony has proved he’s a true music marketing maven, producing worldwide tours for every big name Latino artist, including Marc Anthony, Juan Gabriel, Vicente Fernandez and more.

Tony is more than a director, he’s a collaborator that sees every project through, from concert production to media placement, supervising sponsorship, and everything else in between. His efforts and expertise have been key to CMN’s doubling concert production in the past few years, thus making CMN and their music partnerships much more profitable and successful.

Denise Colletta is one of the most recognized “faces” in the music and entertainment industries, developing and nurturing some of the most high-profile relationships for City National. Denise and her team at City National have been instrumental in providing financing for some of the top business and creative names in the music industry, in the areas of music publishing, business acquisitions, creative office space/recording studios, name and image rights and related licensing, and royalty-based lending.

With over 30 years of banking experience, Denise oversees a large portfolio of loans and deposits totaling approximately $1 billion. Denise and her team consistently provide new financing to the various genres of the media and music industries. In 2013 and 2016 Denise was recognized by Variety as a Top Dealmaker in the Entertainment Industry. In 2016 Billboard recognized Denise as one of the Top Women in Music and among the 100 Most Powerful Executives in the industry. She was one of only two bankers to make the list. In 2017 Denise was honored by Variety as one of the honorees on the Power of Women L.A. list and was the only banker to make the list.
Among Denise’s other notable achievements was her leadership in heading a City National Bank syndications team in 2016 that arranged one of the largest transactions in independent music in recent years: a $500 million credit facility for a independent music publishing and rights management company.

Philanthropic Service:

---Member of the Advisory Council for Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) major provider of housing and health services (in partnership with UCLA Health System) to seniors in the entertainment industry.
--- Chair of MPTF’s Professional Advisory Network.

Tamara Conniff is currently Executive Vice President of Roc Nation Music Publishing where she overseas global operations for the award-winning division. Previously, she was President of Music Services for Front Line Management Group, where she oversaw VIP ticketing, branding, digital and merchandising for multi-platinum artists. She was the first woman to ever be named Editor in Chief and Associate Publisher of Billboard.

Marty Diamond is the East Coast head of Paradigm Talent Agency's Music Division. He previously served as president of Little Big Man Booking, a boutique music agency that was acquired by Paradigm in 2006. His clients include Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, Lorde, Sia, Janelle Monáe, Sara Bareilles, Bastille, Sigur Rós, Alessia Cara, David Gray, Vance Joy, Charli XCX and Halsey.

Diamond founded Little Big Man in 1994 after stints at Arista Records, Bill Graham Management and Manhattan music venue The Ritz. He oversaw Little Big Man's growth from a two-person operation to becoming the leading small agency in North America, winning the Pollstar Award for Small/Boutique Booking Agency 10 out of 11 consecutive years, 1996-2000 and 2002-2006. Diamond has been nominated 14 times for Pollstar's highest individual honor, Agent of the Year, winning once.

Kate Dordick serves at the Director of Arena Booking for Spectrum Center in Charlotte, NC, where she focuses on driving content by capitalizing on the unique assets and location of the market. Kate has extensive experience in working with promoters in various markets countrywide and prides herself on building and maintaining strong, meaningful relationships with those she works with on a daily basis. A native of Cleveland, OH, Kate’s first job outside of college was doing special events for the House of Blues, followed by premium seating sales for both Live Nation and AEG Presents. From there, she leveraged her promoter relationships to book four theaters in downtown San Jose, where she oversaw the programming and marketing efforts for over 500 events annually. Throughout her experience within the industry, Kate has helped achieve record-breaking revenue generation and programming content for the buildings she has had the honor to work in. Kate continues to utilize her strong relationships, as well as the challenges she has faced throughout her career, as opportunities to achieve greatness.

Thomas Dürr is CEO of act entertainment ag, one of Switzerland’s leading promoters.

Starting business in 1992, he was able to organize highlights such as stadium and arena shows by Helene Fischer, Coldplay, Guns'n'Roses, Depeche Mode, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, Nitro Circus, Hans Zimmer, Wardruna, Neil Diamond, Katie Melua and many more.

He is also founder of several festivals, like Switzerland’s biggest rock event Greenfield Festival and Summerstage Basel.

Act entertainment is known for promoting concerts as well as musicals, comedy shows, family entertainment, dance-/ballet productions and exhibitions - all over Switzerland. A winter circus, dinner shows, horse shows and sports event complete the list.

In addition, Act entertainment is running an excellent booking department for domestic and international artists.

To achieve this big of a success was only possible due to his unbroken enthusiasm and attention to detail.

Bruce Eskowitz is COO of Red Light Management. RLM is a multifaceted, privately owned artist management company. Red Light has offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, Nashville, Atlanta and Charlottesville. In addition to overseeing all of RLM’s management activities, Bruce manages artists including Lionel Richie, Il Divo, Icona Pop and Mat Franco.

Prior to joining Red Light, Bruce was CEO of North America for Live Nation. Prior to that he was President of Live Nation. He also held various senior level positions with Clear Channel Entertainment, SFX and Pace Entertainment.

Ken Fermaglich is an agent on the music leadership team at leading global talent and entertainment company, United Talent Agency (UTA). Currently he oversees the booking and touring for internationally acclaimed artists such as Guns N’ Roses, Paramore, 3 Doors Down, Muse, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience, Steel Panther, Alter Bridge, Seether, Bush, among others.

Fermaglich joined UTA in 2015 when the company acquired the world’s largest independent booking agency, The Agency Group (TAG). Previously, he spent 18 years at TAG where he played a pivotal role in managing a team of agents while cultivating the careers of many acts he represents to this day. Prior to that, Fermaglich worked at Artists & Audience Entertainment after a brief stint at ICM. His music career began shortly after he graduated from Skidmore College and started as an assistant at William Morris in 1990.

Recognized as a leader in the industry, Ken has been named to the Billboard Power 100 list for the last two years and was nominated for the Agent of the Year award at the International Entertainment Buyers Association Awards in 2016.

Stephen Ferrone or better known to Tom Petty fans and Tom Petty Nation, “The New Guy.” Even though 24 years had pass since Steve Ferrone became a Heartbreaker, Tom Petty still humorously introduced Steve as the “The New Guy” at each Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour shows.

Steve and Heartbreaker’s guitarist Mike Campbell first met while playing a concert with George Harrison’s Hari and the Hijack Band at Royal Albert Hall in 1991. Steve became Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker’s full-time drummer in October of 1992. Steve’s first recording as a band member came on Tom Petty’s second solo album “Wildflowers”, which was completed and released in 1994. His first live performance as a Heartbreaker was on February 28,1995 in Louisville, KY in support of the “Wildflowers” album.

Steve is quoted, “Everyone should have an experience like the Heartbreakers in their musical life; creativity, passion, honesty, integrity, and a lot of fun.” The admiration goes both ways. Each night during the 40th Anniversary Tour, not only did Tom Petty introduce Steve as, “The New guy, a dear friend", but also "the finest drummer he has ever played with.”

Steve Ferrone was born Stephen Ferrone in Brighton, England on April 25, 1950. His drumming career started when he was 12 years old, opening up for The Who, Freddie and the Dreamers, and The Searchers. His musical talents and groove have spanned over 5 decades and multiple genres. Steve has performed and recorded with Duran Duran, Jeff Golub, David Garfield, Eric Clapton, Average White Band, Brian Auger, Jeffrey Osborne, Scritti Politti, Christine McVie, Al Jarreau, Akiko Yano, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Brian Ferry, Chaka Kahn, David Sanborn, Eros Ramazzotti, Freddie King , George Duke, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Peter Frampton, Ray Barretto,Steve Winwood, B-52’s, Tornader, The Temptations, Pooh, Anita Baker, 360, Legacy, Nathen East, Mindi Abair and for 25 years Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Steve Ferrone started playing Gretsch drums after joining Average White Band in the early 70’s.

Harlan Frey is Senior Vice President of Touring and Artist Development for Atlantic Records, and is widely regarded as one of the most active label execs in the touring space. He oversees all tour related activities within the label group spanning more than 175 artists, including: Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Portugal.The Man, Vance Joy, Alt J, and many more. Up until the summer of 2012, Harlan spent thirteen years at the helm of the Roadrunner Records’ Artist Development department where he was instrumental in cultivating the careers of Nickelback, Slipknot, Young The Giant and various others. Harlan got his start with the Agency Group in ‘95 where he signed emo breakout band Jimmy Eat World. He’s been honored by his peers with 6 different nominations and a win for 'Artist Development Executive of the Year' in Pollstar voting. Harlan’s grass-roots out-of-the-box approach to artist development has impacted many of the artists he’s worked with. Look for Harlan to continue to find new innovative ways to give Atlantic Records a leg up on the rest.

Stuart Galbraith is CEO of Kilimanjaro Live, one of the most successful and respected live music promotion companies in the UK. Galbraith has been a key player in the growth of UK live music over the last four decades. 2016, with arena / stadium tours with artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Andrea Bocelli, Bastille, Hans Zimmer, Stereophonics, The 1975, Louis C.K. and BABYMETAL, will see Kilimanjaro’s most successful year to date.

In 2015, Kilimanjaro promoted Ed Sheeran’s record-breaking 3 shows at Wembley Stadium.

Galbraith’s career in music started off as Social Secretary and Promoter at Leeds University in 1980. He brought in an amazing array of bands including The Clash, Simple Minds and U2.
He quickly progressed and joined Midland Concert Promotions (MCP) in 1984. Galbraith spent almost 15 years with MCP, rising to become Director and Partner. Whilst there Galbraith promoted and worked with many incredible artists including Simply Red, Def Leppard, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Metallica, U2, Simple Minds and AC/DC. MCP saw a gap in the market a Galbraith played a role in the development of the creation of Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Park.
MCP was sold in 1999 to SFX and then SFX to Clear Channel. 2005 was a pivotal moment in Galbraith’s career, as Live Nation was created with Galbraith as a key founding member of what was to become a promoting powerhouse. Galbraith as MD, created and led a team promoting tours in arenas and stadiums with many of the world’s biggest bands. The festival market was also part of the plan and Galbraith was a critical part of the creation, development and launch of Download, Wireless and Hyde Park (Hard Rock) Calling. In addition, iconic events, Live8 in 2005 and Live Earth in 2007, saw Galbraith at the head of the organising team.
Galbraith made it his mission to build Hyde Park as a music destination and highlights over the last few years in that venue include Bon Jovi, Simon & Garfunkel, REM, Queen, Shania Twain and the record breaking run by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, which played to over a quarter of a million people.
At the start of 2008, Galbraith decided it was time for the next chapter and in partnership with Tim Leiweke at AEG Live formed Kilimanjaro Live, the company he runs to this day. Touring is at the heart of what Kilimanjaro Live do and the calibre of artists they work with speaks for itself – Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Simply Red, Barry Gibb, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, Andrea Bocelli and many more.

Always with an eye to the future, Galbraith and the Kilimanjaro Live team place a huge emphasis on artist development. Since the creation of Kilimanjaro Live, they have helped break many emerging acts who have become huge stars - Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Bastille, The 1975 and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, to name a few. Festivals are also a significant part of what Kilimanjaro Live does and they are involved in the likes of Sonisphere in Europe.

2012 was a milestone for Galbraith, as Kilimanjaro Live became an entirely independent company, following a management buy out from parent company AEG Live. In that same year, the company promoted the first two comeback shows by The Rolling Stones shows at the O2 Arena and closed 2012 with three Robbie Williams shows at the same venue. Not a bad start on going it alone …

In recent years, the company has expanded into areas such as comedy – they have staged shows with the likes of Louis CK, Jerry Seinfeld and Jeff Dunham, plus spoken word and sports, but music is still at the heart of what Galbraith and Kilimanjaro Live does. In the last few years, there have been an eclectic mix of shows from Andrea Bocelli, the Ed Sheeran sold out UK Arena Tour, Donny & Marie Osmond, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel and Barry Gibb.

Kilimanjaro are now actively producing in the West End, including hugely successful runs with The Illusionists and Tape Face; Tape Face has also just completed a multiweek run at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. In addition, the company also produces up to 10 comedy shows at the world-renowned Edinburgh Festival.

May 2014 saw a major investment deal with public German entertainment company, Deutsche Entertainment (DEAG), which promises to allow the company to grow even further whilst retaining their independent spirit.

In 2017, Kilimanjaro expanded by employing a new music promoter and a new comedy promoter, signed 5-year contracts for two London summer concert series; Kew the Music and Live at Chelsea and created a new classic rock festival, Stone Free, at the O2 Arena.

In 2018, Kilimanjaro reached its 10th birthday, won the Music Week Award for Promoter of the Year, employed 2 new promoters and have bought Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival.

Away from work, Galbraith is an extreme sports enthusiast and very keen cyclist who has pursued his passion all over the world (cycling, ski touring, climbing and mountaineering). And there’s a common thread between his work and hobby – stamina and unending determination, life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Margaret Galton is a Talent Buyer working on Festivals and Concerts at C3 Presents. In the past nine years she has had the privilege to work on accounts such as: Austin City Limits Music Festival, Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Live Out Festival, C3 Concerts in Austin and all throughout Texas, Auckland City Limits, Sydney City Limits, Austin Food and Wine, Nickelodeon SlimeFest, and The White House Easter Egg Roll (Obama Administration).

Steve Gordon is Co-Head of the Electronic Music Division at United Talent Agency (UTA) where he represents some of the largest dance music artists in the space including Marshmello, Kaskade, Illenium and Excision, among others. In April alongside long-time partner Kevin Gimble, he oversaw the sale of their previous company, Circle Talent Agency, to UTA. Gordon negotiates and assists in contracting over 200 club nights in Las Vegas every year, in addition to selling-out major venues in the US including Red Rocks Amphitheater, LA Convention Center, and The Gorge. He also helped Excision create and curate Lost Lands, the largest grossing three-day festival owned by an artist in North America, as well as Bass Canyon, his newest launched festival this year selling 40k tickets over three days. Gordon was previously a well-known promoter in Baltimore, crafting some of the first hard-ticket tours in bass music.

To date, Kevin Griffin has produced, written, and co-written albums and songs that have sold in excess of 30 million copies.

Griffin has produced and written songs performed by artists such as Taylor Swift, Train, Sugarland, Barenaked Ladies, Christina Perri and James Blunt among others. He scored a #1 hit in 2005 with Howie Day's "Collide." In 2010, Griffin had Sugarland's #1 Country hit, "Stuck Like Glue" which became the 11th most downloaded country music song of all time. Recently, Kevin teamed up with fellow songwriter Sam Hollander to form Band of Merrymakers, a rotating-cast Yuletide super group featuring today’s biggest artists such as Fitz and the Tantrums, Natasha Bedingfield, and Neon Trees. In 2015 the group released their Sony debut album “Welcome to Our Christmas Party” with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Grammy’s MusiCares Foundation®. Christmas 2015 saw them performing on the Today Show, Jimmy Kimmel LIVE! and the NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center for the tree lighting ceremony. Christmas 2016 will see the band live in performing arts centers around the country.

Griffin made his professional debut in 1995 as the singer and songwriter for New Orleans based band Better Than Ezra. Their debut record, Deluxe, went double-platinum fueled in part by the success of the #1 Modern Rock track “Good.” The band's follow up record, Friction Baby, went Gold and contained two Top 10 Modern Rock tracks followed by another Top 10 Hit in 2001 with the single “Extra Ordinary.” In 2005, Better Than Ezra had a Top 10 hit with "Juicy". In 2010, their song, “Breathless,” was covered by Taylor Swift at the Hope for Haiti telethon and during her worldwide tour. In 2014 BTE released their eight studio album All Together Now which secured a Top 30 song with lead single “Crazy Lucky.” Better Than Ezra continue to tour around the world.

In addition to songwriting and performing, Griffin is involved in artist management, lectures on the subject of creativity to groups and companies such as Novation and YPO/WPO, and this fall will be an adjunct professor and writer-in-residence at NYU’s Clive Davis School of Music. He is a co-founder and partner in Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival which is a two-day event located in Franklin, TN. After its inaugural year, Rolling Stone commented that Pilgrimage had “an A-list lineup (arguably the best curated of the year)” and “established itself as a festival to watch.” The festival has featured memoriable performances from Justin Timberlake, Willie Nelson, Chris Stapleton, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves Steven Tyler, Eddie Vedder, Ryan Adams, Cage the Elephant and more in Franklin, TN. www.pilgrimagefestival.com

Griffin currently lives and works in Franklin, TN.

Elliot Groffman is a member of Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian, LLP, a firm specializing in the representation of artists and entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry. Firm clients include Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, Patti Smith., Arcade Fire, Tiesto, Nick Jonas, Mark Ronson and Nashville-based artists Eric Church and Jason Aldean. Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian, LLP represents a wide array of independent record labels such as The Beggars Group (including XL Records), Mom & Pop, Ultra and ATO Records, and independent music publishers such as Big Deal Music. The firm is also a leader in the live event field and represents concert promoters such as Bowery Presents and the promoters of festivals such as Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Primavera Sound. Elliot has represented several major booking agents including the late Chip Hooper, Marty Diamond and Tom Windish.

Dave Grohl's ascension to legendary status as one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene goes back to his joining the DC-based punk rock band Scream at the age of 17. Three years and much international touring later, Grohl became drummer for Nirvana, making his recorded debut with them on 1991's generation-defining Nevermind. Following a guest drumming opportunity with Tom Petty, Grohl took center stage, forming Foo Fighters, on whose 1995 self-titled debut he wrote, recorded and sang every note save for one guitar track. Since then, the massive Foo Fighters catalogue--which includes The Colour & The Shape (1997), There Is Nothing Left To Lose (1999), One By One (2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011), Sonic Highways (2014) and most recently the international #1 album Concrete and Gold (2017)--has raked in 12 Grammy Awards and spawned anthems like “Everlong," "Monkey Wrench," "My Hero," "Learn To Fly," "All My Life," "Best Of You," "The Pretender," “Walk,” “These Days," "The Sky Is A Neighborhood," “Run" and more.

With his combined discography having sold in excess of 75 million copies, Grohl also earned his reputation as a prolific collaborator. In addition to his current and former full time bands, his extracurricular activities have included his 2009 return to the drums with Them Crooked Vultures, the Grammy-winning outfit he formed with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age's Joshua Homme. In 2012, he and his former Nirvana bandmates Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear enlisted Paul McCartney to write and record “Cut Me Some Some Slack,” debuted at the 12-12-12 Concert for Hurricane Sandy Relief, and later winning the 2013 Grammy for Best Rock Song. Among the other artists with whom Grohl has collaborated are late legends David Bowie and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, as well as Mick Jagger, Neil Young, Elton John, Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails, Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen, and Tenacious D, in whose 2006 film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, he played the role of Satan.

In 2013, Grohl made his debut as a feature director/producer with the acclaimed documentary Sound City, named for the Van Nuys CA studio where Nirvana recorded Nevermind in 1991, which went on to sell more than 30 million copies and transformed the modern musical landscape. Premiering to universal acclaim at Sundance, debuting at #1 on the iTunes documentary chart and achieving a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, Sound City focused both on the history of the legendary studio and on the ongoing fight to preserve the human element of music in an increasingly digital world. Hailed by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone as an "exhilarating documentary about what makes life worth living," The New York Times as "candy to several generations' worth of rock fans" and NPR as "a celebrations of just how unbelievably awesome it is to make rock music for a living," Sound City has since been certified as a Gold Longform Video by the RIAA, while the Sound City—Real To Reel companion album featuring the aforementioned “Cut Me Some Slack” took the 2013 Grammys for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Rock Song Grammy.

Grohl also directed the eight-part HBO docuseries Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, which premiered in October 2014 and went on to win two of the four Emmys for which it was nominated (outstanding sound mixing for nonfiction programming and outstanding sound editing for nonfiction programming). Described by Grohl as a love letter to the history of American music, Sonic Highways was comprised of eight one-hour episodes, each chronicling the creation of one song on Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways album, each written and recorded in a different American musical landmark -- Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C..

Grohl has described the Foo Fighters’ current opus Concrete and Gold as “the biggest thing sonically that we’ve ever done.” Heralded by the Mainstream Rock #1 smash and 2018 Best Rock Song GRAMMY winner "Run," Concrete and Gold more than made good on Grohl’s promise: The second FF album to hit #1 in the U.S.–the first being 2011’s Wasting Light—Concrete and Gold posted the band’s biggest ever first week numbers worldwide, with #1 debuts in more than a dozen territories. The tour supporting the album’s release has proven the band’s most massive to date, its U.S. leg having included the band’s very own Cal Jam 17 and Cal Jam 18 festivals, each drawing 30,000+ true believers to San Bernardino, CA for non-stop 12-hour rock n roll extravaganzas headlined by Foo Fighters. The first Foo Fighters global trek since the 20th Anniversary tour that placed in 2015’s top five highest grossing world tours, the Concrete and Gold Tour has seen Grohl and the band reaching new peaks of their estimable powers and will keep them on the stages of stadiums, arenas and festivals the world over well into 2019.

As C3 Presents International Director, Leca Guimarães handles all aspects of Lollapalooza internationally (with the exception of talent booking), while working with local promoters to maintain the Lollapalooza brand standards across the globe. Lollapalooza started its international expansion in Chile in 2011, then expanded to Brazil in 2012, Argentina in 2014, Germany in 2015 and France in 2017, with additional locations to be added soon. Leca joined the C3 Presents family in 2012 after working as Project Director at Geo Eventos, the first and former Lollapalooza Brazil promoter, and is now a Brazilian living in Austin since 2014.

Alex Hodges has cultivated an illustrious career in the music industry, serving not only as a concert promoter and agent, but as a personal manager and corporate executive as well. As Chief Executive Officer for Nederlander Concerts, Hodges oversees the day-to-day management of the company including its booking and promotion of live concerts and special events at all Nederlander exclusively booked and operated concert venues and third party facilities throughout the West Coast. He also focuses on the growth of the company, its expansion into new markets, the creation of new events and ensuring that the company is an active participant in the development of new opportunities. In his early career as an agent, Hodges represented many world famous recording and touring artists including Otis Redding, The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Police, among others, plus was a personal manager for legends such as Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Jim James has spent the better part of almost two decades as the lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of My Morning Jacket. Through seven studio albums, My Morning Jacket has grown into one of the most acclaimed rock and roll bands in the world. The New York Times heralded the band as, “…the new kings of expand-your-mind, religious-experience rock…” Their last three albums, 2008's Evil Urges, 2011's Circuital and 2015’s The Waterfall, each received Grammy nominations for Best Alternative Album -- the latter debuting at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. Alongside the band's recording and touring, James has maintained a steady, bordering on voracious, flow of work.

In 2013, James released his debut solo record, Regions of Light and Sound of God. James wrote, produced and played all instruments himself (except for strings and some percussion) for the record, which was inspired by life and the 1929 novel (written in woodcuts), ‘God’s Man’ by Lynd Ward. It was named one of the best albums of the year by PASTE, MTV and FUSE and was “the year’s first great record” (GQ). A performance of track “A New Life” on the then-hosted Late Night earned high praise from the now-Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon just this year: “"…to this day my favorite musical performance was 'A New Life' on Late Night that we did...He [Jim James] is fantastic. I love him”.

In 2016 James released the politically charged solo record, Eternally Even. Rolling Stone described as, “nine flamboyantly spiritual songs wrapped in creamy electronics and set to funk and hip hop beats...an eccentric, gently compelling pleasure. [Jim James] renders his change gospel with conversational grace, Bill Withers warmth, Sly Stone optimism and Neil Young conviction”. The album’s release saw him embark on a national tour with appearances on the Tonight Show, the Late Late Show with James Corden and a debut at #1 on Billboard Alternative chart. The album topped many year-end ‘best’ lists, with NPR praising the record’s “arresting, soulful … transcendent tunes”.

James’ released his third solo album, Uniform Distortion, in June 2019, which was received with immediate acclaim. "A giddily powerful response to these troubled times,” hailed the Guardian in its 4-star review. “His mix of musical joie de vivre and lyrical home truths prove fiendishly effective." The Washington Post said, “With driving guitar riffs and catchy hooks combined with his signature soaring vocals, James delivers an utterly engaging, hard-charging, straight-ahead record that almost feels like a throwback to a different era while also being very much current,” while American Songwriter claimed, “"There are enough artistic twists and turns to please even the most dedicated Jacket fan, showing that James remains as musically edgy as ever on an album that pulses with energy, enthusiasm and the restless spirit James has always personified." Four months after Uniform Distortion was released, James followed with the companion record of Uniform Clarity comprising acoustic renditions of the songs in a more stripped down and honest response to what went before.

Although splitting his time between LA and Kentucky, James has little plan to remain in one place. James has continued expanding on his zealous lists of credits, lending his voice to albums by the likes of the Roots, David Lynch, Brandi Carlile and John Fogerty and partnering with other artists on numerous side projects such as New Multitudes, Monsters of Folk, and T-Bone Burnett’s The New Basement Tapes. Known for his live performances, James has found himself in the touring company of those like Neil Young, Pearl Jam, and Bob Dylan – even appearing in the Dylan-inspired film, I’m Not There – and My Morning Jacket supported Roger Waters as his surprise backing band during famed Newport Folk Festival in 2015. He has embedded himself in the world of film and television, be it through the use of his music in various projects or his long-running relationships with those in the field. James has also established himself as a producer in his own right, producing records by Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Dean Wareham, Basia Bulat, Amo Amo, and Ray Lamontagne’s Ouroboros (2016), the same year in which he collaborated with NASA for the launch of their Juno Mission and Sundance Film Festival and their “Freedom of Expression” event. In the fall of 2018, James embarked on successful, intimate, career-spanning solo acoustic tour, which saw him play sold out dates through historic theatres and performing arts centers across the United States. In Spring 2019, James will set out on the Jim James Presents Uniform Distortion Tour, playing the complete record with a full band for the first time nationally.

Seth Kallen is the founder of This Fiction, a boutique, independent, artist management company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The roster of clients includes multi platinum selling rock band X Ambassadors who broke out in 2015 with their hit singles "Renegades" and "Unsteady,” both of which cracked the top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. This Fiction also represents Jukebox the Ghost, Minke, Great Good Fine Ok and more. In 2017 Kallen formalized a partnership between This Fiction and Friends at Work, a management company founded by Ty Stiklorius (John Legend, Lindsey Stirling, Alanis Morissette, Ryan Adams), sharing resources and infrastructure, with the joint teams working across both rosters.

Also in 2017, Kallen, X Ambassadors, and DSP Shows founded Cayuga Sound, a festival in Ithaca, NY curated by X Ambassadors showcasing both local musicians and international touring acts. Cayuga Sound had its second year in 2018, expanding to two days; the lineup over the years has included The Roots, Young the Giant, Matt & Kim, K.flay, and more. Cayuga Sound brings together the community of Ithaca through music, food, and conversations.

Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word “eclectic.” Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African,Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and chumbus, Middle Eastern oud, and Irish bouzouki. The eye-poppingly clad “Mr. Dave’s” uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his onstage banter a highlight of the show. David Lindley grew up in southern California, first taking up the banjo as a teenager, and subsequently winning the annual Topanga canyon banjo and fiddle contest five times as he explored the American folk music tradition. Between 1967 and 1971 Lindley founded and lead what must now be seen as the first world music rock band, the Kaleidoscope. In 1971, Mr. Dave joined forces with Jackson Browne,serving as Jackson’s most significant musical co-conspirator until 1981. In 1979, Lindley had begun working with old friend Ry Cooder on ‘Bop Till you Drop’ and ‘The Long Riders’ sound track, a musical collaboration that lasts to this day, and has spawned many recording projects and several world tours as an acoustic duo. In 1981, Lindley created his own remarkable Band El Rayo-X, which integrated American roots music and world beat with a heavy reggae influence. ‘El Rayo-X’, ‘Win This Record’ and ‘Very Greasy’, as well as a live e.p. During this period he also came forth with a solo album, ‘Mr. Dave’. Lindley and guitarist Henry Kaiser went to Madagascar for two weeks in 1991 and recorded six albums of indigenous Malagasy music (including two collaborative cd’s, ‘A World Out of Time’ volumes one and two on Shanachie) which proved to have a major impact on the world music scene, both for the quality of the Grammy nominated music recorded, and the fair and ethical way the Malagasy musicians were dealt with. Throughout this long and distinguished career, Lindley has been one of Hollywood’s most in demand session musicians, lending his skills to the recorded works of Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby and Nash, Warren Zevon, and many others. In 1990 a chance meeting of Lindley and Jordanian born percussionist Hani Naser led to an impromptu jam and an instant decision that “we should take this on the road.” David and Hani toured the world for the following six years. The duo recorded two self-released “Official Bootleg” compact discs, ‘Live in Tokyo Playing Real Good’ and ‘Live All Over the Place Playing Even Better’ on Pleemhead Audio. At his expansive and eclectic live performances David Lindley consistently gives one of the most unique concert experiences available to adventuresome music listeners.

Evangelia Livanos has always had her finger on the pulse of what's hot before it's hot, what's cool before it's cool and what's hip long before you ever even heard of it. She's got that kind of radar.

Having her ear firmly planted to the underground is what makes her such a valuable music industry commodity, especially in this day and age.

She began her career booking bands like Jimmy Eat World and Saves the Day at boutique firm Fata Booking before taking a step up at Face the Music. When FTM was bought out, Livanos boldly refused the new parent company's offer and courageously headed out on her own, focusing on management. She was quickly scooped up by A Fein Martini, developing the band Emanuel for several years. She distilled experience into this passion project and the result was nothing short of runaway success for the indie band.

Livanos next spent two years working with platinum metal bands like Slipknot before deciding to collect everything she learned on her incredible journey and jobs and channel it into a new venture working with indie bands. She's only begun to scratch the surface.

All the while she has served as the president of Women in Music. During her tenure, the formerly dormant group has experienced unprecedented growth, thanks to her beyond competent leadership. WIM is a resource for women in music to share, communicate and work together to achieve common goals, something Evangelia Livanos clearly knows quite a bit about.

Livanos has also recently started a record label through Electra Music Group called Public Consumption Recording Company.

Sophie Lobl works at C3 Presents on the booking teams for Bonnaroo and aggregates Global Festival Offers with Live Nation. She worked at WME in both London and Los Angeles before moving to Austin.

Sophie was born in London and went to Leeds university.

Award-winning entertainment and music industry icon Kevin Lyman has reimagined the live show and festival experience, shaped popular culture, and rocked corporate branding. Kevin founded the Vans Warped Tour in 1995 and has curated and ran the groundbreaking festival throughout its 24-year run. In addition, Kevin has produced or promoted such live music experiences as Taste of Chaos, It’s Not Dead Festival, the Alternative Press Music Awards, Pilgrimage, Mayhem Festival, and Country Throwdown, among others.

His punk rock intrepidness, his steely commitment to philanthropic pursuits, his savvy business instincts, and his on-the-pulse aesthetic sensibility have guided him on a successful and winding career that has spanned 37 years. Today, Kevin embraces a new era of unbound creative and business opportunities with The Kevin Lyman Group, a premiere event production and strategy firm. “This is a rebirth, and I am looking forward to new opportunities and fresh challenges,” he says.

Central to Kevin’s work have been his core principles. “Punk rock is about challenging the norm and changing the world,” he says. “What’s guided me in this quest has been my philosophy which includes music, education, philanthropy, and bringing people together.”

Kevin discovered his destiny in college when he accidently stumbled into a show by LA punk pioneers T.S.O.L. Roused by the power of live music, Kevin began to put on fundraisers for his college. Post-graduation, Kevin averaged working up to 320 shows a year as he branched out from punk to metal, rock, and world music.

During the fertile 1990s alternative music scene, Kevin was a Lollapalooza stage manager. While there, at the forefront of a new fiery culture, he sagely sensed the power of the burgeoning movement around extreme sports and heavy music. His vision became The Warped Tour. With this tour he was able to connect the dots between the lifestyle experience, marketing, sponsorship, and his lifelong commitment to philanthropy.

Kevin has since been recognized as the Billboard Touring Awards “Humanitarian of the Year” (2009); he has been awarded an honoree at the Grammy/MusiCares MAP Fund gala (2011 and 2014); and he has been inducted into the Top Dog Touring Hall of Fame (2012). Kevin recently announced his professorship at the USC Thornton School of Music. Currently, he also serves on the board of directors for MusiCares, TJ Martel, Hands that Rock, Saint Archer Brewery, and he is an advisor for the Los Angeles Fairplex.

Mike Marquis is a Boston-born, New York-based agent for Paradigm Talent Agency, and partner in Photo Finish Records. Marquis has 15 years of experience in the music industry, including nine years as an agent at Paradigm. He has developed his agency roster to include Jack Antonoff / Bleachers, Bishop Briggs, Alice Merton, Marian Hill, Lovelytheband, MisterWives, Dashboard Confessional, Mayday Parade, PVRIS, and many more.

His passion for working hands-on with artists from the ground up often means operating outside the typical boundaries of the job description. This can be illustrated in his 10 years of work with Jack Antonoff: The two have executed countless branding and corporate deals together, started a New Jersey music festival (Shadowof the City, now in its fourth year), as well as a recently signed book deal.

Marquis, alongside founder Matt Galle, have built Photo Finish, now in its tenth year, to sell over a million albums, 17 million singles and one billion total Spotify streams worldwide, with artists Marian Hill, 3OH!3, MisterWives, The Mowgli’s, Shaed, and more. Marquis approaches his work in a holistic way, always trying to balance agency, label and family. He says the keys for him are hard work, modesty, honesty, and a strong ethical core.

As General Manager of the Global Music Group at United Talent Agency, Natalia Nastaskin is responsible for strategic development, management and expansion of the music group. Prior to UTA, Natalia was CEO and General Counsel to The Agency Group in the US. Natalia began her career in music as an attorney and founder of her eponymous entertainment law practice in New York City.
Recognized as a power player in the industry, Natalia was featured on Billboard's Women In Music and Power 100 lists for the past 4 consecutive years, as well as having two entries on Variety's Women's Impact lists. Natalia presently serves on the advisory boards for MIDEM and Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) Network.

10th Street Entertainment President Chris Nilsson has a BA in Economics from Colorado College and an MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business. He is a 20 year veteran of the music business, having begun managing singer-songwriters in the LA Hotel Cafe scene in the early 2000s. Chris has spent the past 12 years under industry titan Allen Kovac’s tutelage where he has been the primary manager for rock icons Mötley Crüe and their founder/bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx. Over the years, Chris has been instrumental in cultivating and growing acts like Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, Sixx:A.M., Bad Wolves, Papa Roach and In Flames. He enjoys reading the novels of Haruki Murakami, takes Japanese lessons once per week, studies the Spanish guitar, is married to Elizabeth Stahl and has two dogs.

Greg Oswald is a Partner at WME and Co-Head of its Nashville office. Oswald is responsible for guiding the daily touring, film, literary and sponsorship opportunities for some of the biggest names in music. His client roster includes Dolly Parton, Randy Houser, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kix Brooks, Pat Green, 38 Special, Gretchen Wilson, Kenny Rogers, Big & Rich, Thompson Square, Lindsay Ell, Wynonna, Hank Williams Jr. as well as many others. Oswald has been named to Billboard’s annual Country Power Player List every year since its inception. Variety Magazine named him one of the top Touring Agents in the United States and has recognized him on their annual Music City Impact Report. He is a past winner of CMA Talent Agent of the Year. He is a member of the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music, International Talent Buyers Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

With a passion and focus on artist development, Cheryl Paglierani has a knack for finding talent early on and building it from the ground up. As a music agent at leading global talent and entertainment company, United Talent Agency (UTA), she has overseen and developed the touring careers of superstar clients including Post Malone and 21 Savage, who together had their track “Rockstar” spend eight weeks at #1 on the Hot 100.

Other emerging artists on Paglierani’s roster include breakout female rapper Asian Doll, who just signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 Eskimo Records, Lil Pump, SAINt JHN, Rich Brian, Amir Obe, Jazz Cartier, Tyla Yaweh, Preme and Ski Mask The Slump God.

Paglierani was instrumental in booking Post Malone’s 31-city sold-out US tour which grossed over $20 million and sold over 350K tickets. She slotted Post across major festivals such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Wireless and Reading & Leeds, with headline sets at Made In America and Music Midtown. She also helped to create and curate his inaugural Posty Fest in Dallas this past October, which sold out in under two hours.

Post’s latest album, “Beerbongs & Bentleys” set and broke monumental records in 2018, with over 47 million streams in its first day on Spotify and 83 weeks in the Top 10 R&B / Hip-Hop charts where it remains currently, besting records like Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Paglierani is an in-demand speaker for influential panels across the US, having recently participated in Will & Jada Smith’s Careers In Entertainment Summer Tour at UCLA, as well as power agent panels at IEBA and Billboard Live Music Summit. She was also recently named to both Billboard’s Women in Music and Hip Hop Power Players lists for 2018.

The head of the International Live Music Conference (ILMC), Greg Parmley has spent two decades involved in the international live music industry. ILMC publishes IQ, a leading source of news and content for the business, as well as various annual publications. In 2015, Greg launched the International Festival Forum, an annual showcase event for booking agents and music festivals. In 2017, he launched the Event Safety & Security Summit.

Greg is a published author and book editor, and a founding member and current chair of the UK Live Music Group. Due to one too many pub conversations, he also holds the Guinness World Record for Most Music Festivals Visited in 30 Days.

Alissa Pollack is the Executive Vice President of Global Music Marketing, an initiative that focuses on leveraging iHeartMedia's extensive pool of listener data and deep music and consumer insights to benefit advertising partners, brands and artists and to deliver even more value on air, online, mobile, social and through live events. Pollack works closely with brands to create targeted music strategies and programs, as well as, create custom content and events, secure brand ambassadors, coordinate tour integrations and license music that will best represent those brands and increase the efficacy of advertising campaigns and fan engagement. She has developed and collaborated on programs such as Pepsi’s The Sound Drop featuring Lukas Graham, Jidenna, and Alessia Cara; Macy's Presents Fashion’s Front Row featuring Ariana Grande and Flo Rida; Chex Mix/General Mills featuring Backstreet Boys, Jeff Timmons, and MY2K Tour; M&M’s First Look featuring, The Chainsmokers, Florida Georgia Line and others, and iHeartRadio Label Defiers featuring Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Puth, Nick JonasCamila Alvares.

In addition, Pollack oversees Mediabase’s Domestic and International music ventures as well as those for Rate the Music, BuzzAngle Music and M-Score and works very closely with iHeartMedia’s National Programming Platforms team to create national research strategies and to discover and develop new artists early in their career. She has been instrumental in guiding the roll out strategy for those artists ranging from Katy Perry, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, twenty one pilots, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, to Post Malone, NF, Bazzi, Marshmello, Dua Lipa, and Bebe Rexha. Her team spearheads artist relations for Premiere Networks’ more than 5,000 affiliates, the iHeartRadio Digital and Podcast teams and internationally through iHeartRadio's broadcast partnerships. Pollack maintains key label and artist relationships by generating custom data focused roadmaps for music’s current and next superstars in all formats and by creating multi-platform opportunities across iHeartMedia's unique proprietary and partner assets.

Pollack also serves on the Board of MusiCares, Musicians on Call and the Executive Board of the Music and Entertainment Committee for City of Hope. She created and chairs the Taste of Hope, which has become one of the best attended music industry events and to date has raised over $6 million for City of Hope. She was Jet Set Magazine's first featured entrepreneur for her charity based brand programs and she was the honoree for TJ Martell's 16th Annual Family Day. In partnership with Musicians on Call, the Jason Pollack Bedside Performance program brings the healing power of music to thousands of patients each year.

Rob Prinz is a Partner and Worldwide Co-Head of Concerts at ICM Partners, a talent and literary agency representing clients in the fields of motion pictures, television, publishing, music, theater branded entertainment and digital media. ICM Partners is one of the predominant agencies in the United States and Europe, with its principal offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.

Mr. Prinz has represented established and emerging recording artists for more than thirty years. He works with a broad range of music and touring clients spanning multiple genres, including Celine Dion, Jerry Seinfeld, Barry Gibb, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band and John Hiatt, along with many other contemporary music performers and comedians.

Prior to ICM Partners, Mr. Prinz was Head of Music/Personal Appearances at UTA. He began his career at the William Morris Agency in New York, where he was credited with discovering Madonna. He continued his career in music, working at CAA before transitioning to UTA and has worked with legendary artists such as Stevie Wonder, Barbara Streisand, Van Halen and Bon Jovi.

Originally from New York, Mr. Prinz went to Queens College and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Nikki, and 3 children.

Jan Quiel (Seaside Touring / Wacken Open Air) started his career in the live business in 2005. Since 2014 Jan his jointly responsible for the lineup of Wacken Open Air and other events produced by ICS Festival Service. In addition he promotes tours of bands like Helmet, Therapy?, Life Of Agony, Clawfinger, DevilDriver in Germany.

Michael Rapino has served as Live Nation Entertainment’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 2005. Rapino led the transformation of Live Nation into the number one live music brand in the world with operations in more than 40 countries and annual revenue exceeding $10 billion.

Comprised of three market leading divisions – Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Live Nation Sponsorship – Live Nation annually issues over 500 million tickets, promotes more than 30,000 events, partners with over 1,000 sponsors and manages the careers of 500+ artists. Its ecommerce sites average 80 million unique monthly users.

John Reid is responsible for running the European touring and festival business for Live Nation. Reid joined Live Nation Entertainment as President of Live Nation Europe-Concerts in January of 2012. Prior to joining Live Nation Entertainment, he served as President of Warner Music Europe and Vice Chairman of Warner Music International. He joined Warner Music Group in 2000, where he ran international marketing and the development of several US stars including Michael Buble, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Green Day and Linkin Park, as well as the global prominence of European artists such as Muse, James Blunt and Enya.

Earlier in his career, he served as President of Island Def Jam in the US, CEO of Polygram Canada, and was an artist manager. Reid holds a business degree from Trinity College Dublin.

Bob Roux is the President of U.S. Concerts at Live Nation Entertainment, where he oversees all operations, bookings and venues in the United States, a position he has maintained since 2018.

Prior to his appointment to President U.S. Concerts in December of 2018, Roux held the position of Co-President of North America Concerts and President for the Dallas / Houston / New Orleans Region for the company and also served on Live Nation Entertainment’s Board of Governors for North America.

Bob has worked for the company and its predecessors since 1990.

Christoph Scholz (44, married with two sons) heads up SC Exhibitions, a division of German promoter Semmel Concerts, as well as the musicals & shows department. He is a producer for exhibitions and non-traditional concert shows at the company. The companies exhibitions Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures and Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes will both be touring through exhibition halls, museums and science centres across the globe this year. Meanwhile, The World of Hans Zimmer, an arena tour curated by the famous film composer, is continuing its world tour.

Andy Serrao has over 15 years in the music business working at both major and indie labels and currently heads up Fearless Records. He has a a well rounded depth of experience also being a promoter owning all ages music venue Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA and being involved as a producer in many southern California events and festivals.

Joey Scoleri is currently Head of Industry Relations for Live Nation Canada. He creates marketing strategies which promote and co brand superstar artists along with newer talents to connect directly to fans through Live Nation’s vast array of direct and partner fan connection channels. Joey has worked on tours with U2, Jay Z, Madonna, Coldplay, Aerosmith, The Weekend, One Direction and many more. Joey spent 12 years at The Disney Music Group working with artists such as Queen, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Rascal Flatts and more in his capacity as VP of promotion and sports marketing. Joey also worked at Elektra Records and worked with artists including Metallica, AC/DC and Motley Crue. Before moving into the management side of the music business he spent 10 + years as “Joey Vendetta” at Q107 Radio in Toronto as Program Director, Afternoon Drive Host and as a National Television Personality for many years. Joey currently guest hosts The Jim Rome Show on CBS Sports Radio across North America and Sportsnet 590 the Fan radio in Toronto; he has interviewed celebrities such as Jerry Bruckheimer, Mark Cuban and Cuba Gooding on the shows.

Marika Anthony-Shaw played the viola as a touring member of Grammy award winning band Arcade Fire for 9 years. She also led the band’s philanthropy and community outreach. While playing on stages around the world, Marika and her fellow band members could feel the incredible energy of thousands of people coming together to experience something profound. Motivated by this potential, Marika dedicated herself to building a new organization, PLUS1. PLUS1 empowers artists to partner with their fans to drive awareness, advocacy, and resources for organizations doing proven, measurable work to increase equity, access, and dignity for all.

Marika was raised in B.C. by her mother - a linguist and academic who works with First Nation communities in language revitalization - who taught Marika the value of identity and the power of language. Marika has degrees in Music performance and Education from McGill University. She sits on the Board of Directors of Partners in Health Canada, and on the PIH Board of Trustees in Boston. She frequently advises and speaks on the power of collective impact and the intersection of effective philanthropy, art, and social justice including at C2 Montreal, the Forbes Under 30 Summit, universities and other engagements globally. She lives in Montreal with her husband, record producer Marcus Paquin, and their young daughter.

Andrew Simon is a Music Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Simon is based in the Los Angeles office and represents many of the world’s leading musicians, including Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Twenty One Pilots, 311, and Dirty Heads, among others.

Simon began his career at APA. He joined CAA in 2006.

Simon graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music.

Emily Simonitsch is the Senior Vice President, Talent at Live Nation for North American Concerts. A Los Angeles native, Simonitsch has promoted some of the biggest names in Latin music over the course of her 30+ year career. As SVP of Talent, Simonitsch is responsible for booking artists, routing tours, and overseeing marketing on a national and regional scale. Simonitsch’s ability to connect with artists has been key to her success and she has been instrumental in promoting dozens of popular Latin acts. She has helped foster the touring careers of musicians including Shakira, Maná, Juan Luis Guerra, Romeo Santos, Laura Pausini, Vicente Fernandez, Alejandro Fernandez, Enrique Iglesias, Juan Gabriel, Luis Miguel, Marco Antonio Solis, Gabriel Iglesias, Ana Gabriel, Pepe Aguilar, Juanes, Ricky Martin, Thalia, and more. Simonitsch was honored on the Billboard Latin Power Players list over the course of three consecutive years in 2015, 2016, and 2017. In 2007 Billboard named Simonitsch one of the Power 25 Hispanic Women in Entertainment. For her work promoting Latin entertainment, the Los Angeles Times recognized Simonitsch as one of the region’s 100 Power Players in 2005.

Barbara (Babs) Szabo is the co-founder of Emo Nite and Ride or Cry.

Crystal Taliefero is a Vocalist/Percussionist/Producer for Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Joe Cocker, Bob Seger, The Bee Gees, Richie Sambora, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Brooks and Dunn, Johnny Reed, Enrique Iglesias.

From Dallas to Singapore, Brett Tuggle’s career has taken him across the globe and back thanks to his keyboard, guitar and vocal skills. When Brett was just a first-grader living in Denver, Colorado, his mother brought home a piano and he was immediately hooked. He began taking classical piano lessons at just six years old, and begged his grandfather for his first guitar, which he taught himself how to play. Inspired by the music of The Beatles, Brett realized he wanted to play music and write songs, and set out to make music his life’s journey.

At the age of 19, Brett was opening for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels. As fate would have it, they were on their way to Vancouver to play a gig and they needed a guitar player. Just like that, Brett was off with his first real touring band to make a record.

Years of touring followed. In L.A., Brett ended up playing and touring with Rick Springfield on the heels of Rick’s hit single Jesse’s Girl, and later, David Lee Roth after he had split from Van Halen. During this period, Brett was able to stretch his songwriting legs, co-writing several songs with Roth including the top 10 single Just Like Paradise in 1988.

In 1992, Brett’s reputation as a top musician landed him another great opportunity. After touring with various other artists, including Steve Lukather from Toto, Jimmy Page, and David Coverdale of Whitesnake, Brett found himself in the Dallas airport getting one of the most important phone calls of his career. Mick Fleetwood was putting Fleetwood Mac back together for the first time in almost 20 years, and wanted to know if Brett would be a part of the band. The Grammy-nominated reunion album The Dance and the tour that followed were a huge success, and led to even more opportunities.

Brett has played live with Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Fleetwood Mac ever since, still finding time to work with artists like Chris Isaak and Steven Tyler in between. Brett recently completed the “Solo Anthology” tour with Lindsey Buckingham. Brett currently lives in Los Angeles where he plays live gigs and does studio work when not on tour.

Matt Urmy was born February 22, 1978 at NYU hospital in Manhattan, New York. His parents lived in the West Village and worked at NYU Medical Center. When Urmy was four years old his family moved to Nashville, TN, where he lived until college. He graduated with a BA in creative writing from UT, Knoxville, and an MFA in poetry from Spalding University in Louisville, KY. He has also studied traditional healing practices with the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Maori, for nearly 20 years.

Aside from publishing two books of poetry (2007 & 2015), Urmy also released his debut album in 2017, Out Of The Ashes, which was produced by the late, legendary, Cowboy Jack Clement.

Rolling Stone Country named Urmy as one 10 artists to watch, and The Nashville Scene called it, “...the most fascinating Nashville album of the last decade...”

In 2012, Matt founded the groundbreaking software company, Artist Growth, which he ran as CEO until 2018, raising millions in venture financing and forging deals with the most iconic institutions in the music industry. He now serves as Chief Strategy & Product Officer, and has clients ranging from Universal Music Group, Vector Management, Red Light Management, Maverick, C3, Qprime, and countless other labels, artists and management companies.

Heather Vantress is the COO of Orange County, California based Synergy Global Entertainment, Inc. (SGE; www.SGEWorldWide.com), one of the world's premier music festival production companies. SGE events currently include 37 music and lifestyle festivals with artist and/or brand curation partners across a variety of genres and interests. 2019 should see SGE sell between 1.75 and 2.25 million tickets throughout North America.

While at SGE, Heather developed the craft beer and music niche festival concept,
launching Ye Scallywag!, Driftwood Country Festival, BeerX, Cali Uncorked, Sabroso,
and Punk In Drublic. She produced the Adult Swim Festival and was the co-producer of the Oddball Comedy Festival and Driftwood Country Festival, and is also the festival project manager for Ohana Festival, Knotfest, IDentity, and many more.

SGE has imagined and produced over 50 music, entertainment and lifestyle festivals, events, and brands since 2004 – spanning genres from hard rock touring mainstay Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival to the Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival to award-winning EDM fest Lost Lands. SGE’s artist-curated festivals and festival tours include Knotfest (Slipknot), MUSINK (Travis Barker), Sabroso (The Offspring), and more. SGE also produces Ohana Festival for Live Nation and Eddie Vedder. SGE has sold over 10 million tickets since the company’s inception.

Heather joined SGE at its inception in 2008, after working for Fat Wreck Chords, MySpace Japan, and for the Vans Warped Tour. She grew up in Oregon and graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in Japanese.

Emily White’s career spans the entertainment industry, carving out a unique path that defines a modern maven. White began her journey at Northeastern University in Boston, with experiences at Powderfinger Promotions, WBCN-FM, Q Division and Skope Magazine. Upon seeing The Dresden Dolls play on campus, White introduced herself to frontwoman Amanda Palmer, quickly integrating into a core member of the band’s team. White and The Dresden Dolls grew up professionally together beginning at SXSW and continuing through White’s graduation day, in which she did graduate, but didn’t walk due to the band kicking off a three continent tour with Nine Inch Nails at Coachella.

Prior to graduating, White completed work with Boston’s local promoter, Don Law Company, while working deep within the live local music scene before becoming a world-class tour manager. An internship at MTV / VH1 UK solidified White’s early love for international business and view of a modern, global economy. Retiring from tour managing at age 23, including runs with Imogen Heap and festivals ranging from Glastonbury to Fuji Rock, White accepted a position at Madison House Inc., in New York working with artists such as The Fiery Furnaces, Dinosaur Jr., The Secret Machines, Angelique Kidjo, and Taj Mahal, as well as members of The String Cheese Incident and Drive-By Truckers.

White wrote a pre-Radiohead In Rainbows “name your own price” distribution model that was passed along to legendary producer Bob Ezrin in 2007. A job offer at Michael Cohl’s Live Nation Artists followed with White handling Zac Brown Band when he was signed along with Madonna, U2 and Jay-Z.

In 2008, White launched Whitesmith Entertainment with Keri Smith, to oversee the careers of musicians and comedians including Brendan Benson, Margaret Cho, The Hush Sound, Amanda Palmer, Eric Burdon, Family of the Year, Hockey, The Autumn Defense,, Fox Stevenson and W. Kamau Bell as well as successfully consulting on Jay Mohr’s goal of being nominated for Comedy Album of the Year at the 2016 Grammys. Following the 2012 Olympic games, White launched a sports management division with inaugural client Anthony Ervin, an Olympic legend known as the “rock star” of Olympic swimming. In 2016, White signed head U.S. Olympic Women’s Swim Coach David Marsh and Olympic gold medalist Kaitlin Sandeno, expanding the sports’ division further.

After witnessing slim margins in the 2016 U.S. Election, White was inspired to get out the vote. The result is a new initiative titled #iVoted, in which venues are letting in fans on November 6th, 2018 - the next national Election Day in the United States - who show a photo of themselves outside their local polling station. Initial promoters include C3 in Texas (Stubb’s, Emo’s, Scoot Inn), Live Nation NYC (Irving Plaza, The Gramercy Theatre, Warsaw), Peter Shapiro’s Brooklyn Bowl, as well as Motorco in North Carolina. #iVoted is currently in over 40 venues and over 20 states as of this writing for the 2018 mid-term U.S. elections.

White is currently an in-demand speaker and consultant due to her expertise within the modern music and sports industries, artist development, social media, and beyond. In the media, White’s name has graced the cover of Billboard Magazine with her work additionally profiled in Fast Company, Forbes, Bloomberg, and ESPN. She is a frequent guest blogger for Hypebot as well as Midem in Cannes, France where she is a regular speaker. In addition, White proudly serves on the boards of Future of Music, CASH Music, SXSW, The David Lynch Foundation Live while additionally serving on The Grammys’ Education Committee and Pandora’s Artist Advisory Council.

In 2017 White released her debut book, Interning 101; a how-to guide for interns in modern business. The book is based on the “intern manifesto” handbook created by White and is published by 9GiantStepsBooks.

White is thrilled to have launched Collective Entertainment with longtime colleagues Katrina Bleckley and Melissa Garcia. Collective Entertainment houses all of White’s management, entrepreneurial work, and beyond.

Lillian Williams, CFP®, is a Partner at O'Neil Hagaman, LLC, a business management firm based in Nashville that specializes in the entertainment industry. Her initial connections to the music industry began with her employment in 1984 at Kraft Bros. as a staff accountant providing small business services to clients in the entertainment industry. Within six months of joining Kraft Bros., she left with Kerry O'Neil and Cheryl Harris when they started O'Neil Hagaman, LLC.

Mrs. Williams, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, specializes in business management and consulting providing overall support for the client's business including accounting, risk management, contract negotiations, royalties, litigation support, tax, estate, and investment planning to a variety of artists across multiple genres, publishers, songwriters, social media influencers, management and record company executives.

Currently, she has 28 clients who combined have sold over 28 million records and 63 #1 radio singles. Her YouTube artist has over 10 million subscribers and 2 billion views. She has written financial articles on business management topics for Music Row Magazine & has been recognized as one of Billboard’s 2018 Top Business Managers. Mrs. Williams has also served as a speaker on entertainment related topics for the Gospel Music Association, Pollstar Live, All ATX Leadership, and Leadership Music. She is also member of the following industry-related organizations: ACM, CMA, NARAS, and an alumni of Leadership Music (Class of 2009).

David Zedeck is the Global Head of Music at leading talent and entertainment company, United Talent Agency (UTA). In 2017, Zedeck joined UTA and was named a Partner and Special Advisor to the Board of Directors. A prominent music industry executive with a track-record of developing the careers of countless major artists, Zedeck oversees the company’s rapidly expanding worldwide music business and a team of over 100 employees. Since joining UTA, he has led the music department in the signings of artists like Pitbull, Bush, Spice Girls, Die Antwoord, Why Don’t We, among others. In April 2018, Zedeck played an integral role in UTA’s aggressive move into the electronic music space with the acquisition of Circle Talent Agency, the world’s premier independent dance music agency.

Previously, he served as Live Nation Entertainment's Executive Vice President and President of Global Talent and Artist Development since 2012. At Live Nation, he was responsible for overseeing the company's global touring initiatives, focusing on acquiring talent on behalf of their global business units and working with the company's officers on global development.

Prior to Live Nation, Zedeck worked at CAA where he represented artists including Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Selena Gomez, Jonas Brothers, Il Divo, among others.

Early on in his career, Zedeck also represented powerhouse artists such as Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Hilary Duff, Chaka Khan, “P. Diddy” Combs, and NSync.

Kevin Hartz has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to a number of transformative companies, including the likes of Airbnb, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia and Uber. Additionally, Kevin was an early adaptor of bitcoin, making his first investment in 2013. He is an early investor in numerous crypto/blockchain hedge funds, including Pantera Capital, Scalar Capital and Polychain. Kevin is also the Chairman of Eventbrite, an innovative ticketing technology company he founded in 2006 with Renaud Visage and Julia Hartz, who is currently CEO.

Kevin Shivers is a partner in WME’s Music division, representing leading artists in the hip-hop and urban genre, in addition to athletes and podcasts. His roster includes Brockhampton, Jimmy Butler, Kid Cudi, Pod Save America, Solange and Tyler The Creator.

Shivers joined the William Morris Agency mailroom in 2008, and transitioned to WME following the agency’s merger with Endeavor in 2009.

A graduate of the University of Texas, Shivers currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Outside of the office; he is on the board for the charity Seeds of Africa and The University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication’s advisory board.

Max Smith has produced VIP programs for over 4 years for acts such as Post Malone, Future, Migos, 21 Savage, A$AP Rocky, and more. Prior to his time with Future Beat, he managed and produced private and corporate events in Washington, DC and has been involved in booking and talent management throughout the past decade, ultimately putting his full focus toward VIP activations for artists touring both domestically and internationally.

John Bollen serves as Chief Digital Officer at Mobilitie and he brings over 25 years of technology experience to the position. John has worked for various start-ups in the Silicon Valley as well as for multi-national corporations such as NBC Universal/General Electric. John is responsible for creating and executing the long-term strategic plan to evolve Mobilitie’s digital capabilities across all client/customer touch points. He has substantial experience in the field of information technology, specializing in digital strategy, construction, and guest experience design. His most recent employment comes from MGM Resorts International where he worked as the Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Officer to help implement the world’s largest hospitality Wi-Fi system.

John received his Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from University of California, Santa Barbara and Master of Business Administration from University of San Francisco.

Since 2016, Khalid has appeared on 18 songs that reached Billboard's Hot 100, including three that cracked the top 10. His debut album, 2017's American Teen, was certified double platinum, and he was nominated for five Grammys, including Best New Artist, at the 2018 Grammy Awards.

Khalid has also proven a formidable force on the road, claiming a spot on Pollstar's Year End Top 200 North American Tours with a gross of $8.9 million in 2018. His 2018 tour included a sold-out gig at New York's Radio City Music Hall, with 5,960 tickets sold for a gross of $487,441.

Steve Machin is a pioneer of the live entertainment & ticketing sectors. Steve speaks about technology and live entertainment at conferences worldwide such as the International Live Music Conference where he chairs the New Technology Committee. Throughout his career Steve has focussed on projects, solutions and services that use new technology to enhance how fans connect with live entertainment. Following senior corporate roles at Ticketmaster Europe and Live Nation, Steve has worked in the independent sector as an entrepreneur and co-founder of a number of businesses - ranging from data analysis of what was a nascent secondary ticketing sector, to a live event streaming company that brought the category of “Event Cinema” to the mass-market across Europe. More recently Steve has moved towards an infrastructure approach to the ticket sector. To that end, in 2012 Steve successfully applied to the internet regulator, ICANN, to operate a high-integrity domain name registry for the ticketing sector under the .tickets top level domain. In 2018 Steve has more turned his attention to blockchain and has joined FanDragon Technologies to bring his industry experience to bear on the next phase of ticketing technology.

Kacie Lehman is Senior Vice President of Partnerships for MAC Presents, a leading music sponsorship and experiential agency. In her seven years with the company, Lehman has played a key role in developing global partnerships with culture’s leading brands and artists. She has been instrumental in developing many award winning brand-artists programs including; Chance The Rapper’s brand ambassadorship with H&MxKENZO; Khalid’s partnership with Forever 21; MadeInTYO’s integrated partnership with Sprite; Southwest Airlines’ “On The Rise” program with Khalid; Southwest Airlines’ “Destination Dragons” tour and campaign with Imagine Dragons and Taylor Bennett’s partnerships with Urban Outfitters, Express and Diesel, among many others.

Lizzie Daniel has over 17 years of sales, media, marketing and management experience orchestrating global branded content partnerships, sponsorships, experiential marketing programs and strategic digital initiatives for the world’s leading brands. Prior to joining the MAC Presents team in 2018, she served as VP of Marketing at CMA, leading a team of 10 to drive the growth of country music around the world through strategic industry initiatives. Previously, Lizzie was VP of Brand Solutions at Tinder/Match Group, Luxury Advertising Sales Director at Editorialist, and Advertising Director at Rolling Stone. Earlier in her career Lizzie held positions at Gannett, iHeart, DreamWorks Records & Universal Music Group.