Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group
Co-Founder & Chief Executive, Republic Records
Co-Founder & Chief Executive, Republic Records
Alan Ritchson
Actor (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Smallville, Blue Mountain State)
Founder, Chop Shop Music Supervision
Grammy-winning producer & Founder, KIDinaKORNER
Sr. VP of Music, MTV
Music Supervisor, Firestarter Music
Executive Vice President, Marketing, Universal Music Group
Founding Partner, Peter Law Group
Global VP of A&R, Warner Music Group
Controller, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra
VP of Music, Trailer Park
Sr. VP of Film & TV, peermusic
Head of Music, BBC Radio 1 & 1 Xtra (UK)
Founder, Element1 Music (worldwide manager Twenty One Pilots)
Partner, Digital Media & Brand Entertainment, Lewis Silkin LLP & Managing Director, "Eleven"
Chairman & CEO, Atlantic Records
President & CEO, Island Records
U.S. Editor, Music Week
Gary Chen
General Manager & Co-Founder, Spotlite Media, Inc.
Movie Producer (
Eye In The Sky, Loving, The Happy Prince)
Greg Hammer
Managing Director, Red Bull Records
Jaddan Comerford
Founder, UNIFIED (Vance Joy, Tash Sultana)
CEO, Lava Records & Lava Music Publishing
Sr. VP of A&R, Republic Records
Shareholder & Founder, LA Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig LLC
Music Agent, United Talent Agency
CEO, PodcastOne
Head of Marketing & Strategic Marketing, KBK Konzert-Künstleragentur GmbH (Germany)
Head of Global Music Marketing, Coca-Cola
President, The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group
Interim CEO, MUMO/Chairman & Co-Founder, Thrively/Managing Partner, LiftOff
Jon Lieberberg
Manager, Roc Nation
VP of Concerts, ICM Partners
VP of A&R, Red Bull Records
President & CEO, Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce
Founder, 100 Management (manager Zane Lowe)
VP of Music & Production, Fox Broadcasting Company
Chief Operating Officer, Times Music (India)
Director of A&R, Warner/Chappell Music
Founder & Co-CEO, Advanced Alternative Media, Inc.
Editor, Music Week
Sr. VP of A&R, Atlantic Records
Sr. Director of Industry Relations, Pandora
CEO, MQA
Deputy Programme Director/Head Of Music, Radio X (UK)
Sr. VP of A&R & Head Of Creative, Disney Music Group
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Saavn
Paul I. Menes
Co-Head of Entertainment & Media, ADLI Law Group
Head of A&R, Atlantic Records Group
Peter Leak
Manager, Red Light Management
Assistant Editor, Rock Paper Scissors
COO, Gaana
Managing Director, Silva Screen Music Group
Founder/ CEO, RAVE Magazine
Publisher, Music Business Watch
VP & General Manager, EKKO Music Rights Europe
President, House of Blues Entertainment/Live Nation
Sr. VP of Creative Operations, SESAC
Saugato Bhowmik
EVP & Business Head, Consumer Products & Integrated Network Solutions, Viacom 18 Live (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon)
Songwriter/Producer
Global Lead, Bus Dev & Partner Mgmt. Ford Developer Program , Ford Motor Company
Seymour Stein
Co-Founder & Chairman, Sire Records & VP, Warner Bros Records
President, Sony Music India & Middle East
Film Producer (Fatakra, Survivors, Awesome Asian Bad Guys)
EVP of Global Sports & Entertainment Consulting, GMR Marketing
Partner, X-ray Touring
Movie Producer (Enchanted, S.A.L.T, Premonition)
Co-President & Co-Owner, Mom+Pop Music
Owner/Music Supervisor, SuperMusicVision
Founder & Publisher, Music Business Worldwide
Director Artist Relations BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival / Latitude 38 Ent't & Co-Founder/Partner Highway 29 Ent't
Owner/Producer, Tracey Trench Productions
Head of Music, Freeform
Director Pop & Urban, Peermusic
Ward Hake
VP of TV Music, Twentieth Century FOX Television
Global Sector Leader, Media & Entertainment, Korn Ferry
Founder, Mass Animation
President, Repertoire & Marketing, U.S., BMG
JAY COOPER
Shareholder & Founder, LA Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig LLC
Founder of Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles Entertainment Practice, Jay L. Cooper focuses his practice on the music industry, motion pictures, television, Internet, multimedia and intellectual property issues. He represents individuals and companies on intellectual property matters, including recording and publishing agreements for individual artists and composers; actor, director, producer and writer agreements in film and television; executive employment agreements; complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs; production agreements on behalf of music, television and motion picture companies, and all entertainment issues relative to the Internet.
Jay has guest lectured at Harvard Law School, UCLA Law School, USC Law School, USC Music School, Stanford Law School, Boalt Hall, Tulane Law School, the Florida Bar Association, the Texas Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the California Copyright Conference, MIDEM, the American Film Market, the Cannes Film Festival, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the US Copyright Society and the American Bar Association. He is also a former adjunct professor of Entertainment Law at Loyola Law School.