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Sir Lucian Grainge

Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group

Monte Lipman

Co-Founder & Chief Executive, Republic Records

Avery Lipman

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)

Alexandra Patsavas

Founder, Chop Shop Music Supervision

Alex da Kid

Grammy-winning producer & Founder, KIDinaKORNER

Amani Duncan

Sr. VP of Music, MTV

Andrea von Foerster

Music Supervisor, Firestarter Music

Andrew Kronfeld

Executive Vice President, Marketing, Universal Music Group

Arnold Peter

Founding Partner, Peter Law Group

Aton Ben-Horin

Global VP of A&R, Warner Music Group

Ben Cooper

Controller, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Bobby Gumm

VP of Music, Trailer Park

Carter Armstrong

Sr. VP of Film & TV, peermusic

Chris Price

Head of Music, BBC Radio 1 & 1 Xtra (UK)

Chris Woltman

Founder, Element1 Music (worldwide manager Twenty One Pilots)

Cliff Fluet

Partner, Digital Media & Brand Entertainment, Lewis Silkin LLP & Managing Director, "Eleven"

Craig Kallman

Chairman & CEO, Atlantic Records

David Massey

President & CEO, Island Records

Emmanuel Legrand

U.S. Editor, Music Week

Gary Chen

General Manager & Co-Founder, Spotlite Media, Inc.

Ged Doherty

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)

Jason Flom

CEO, Lava Records & Lava Music Publishing

Jason Jordan

Sr. VP of A&R, Republic Records

Jay Cooper

Shareholder & Founder, LA Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig LLC

Jbeau Lewis

Music Agent, United Talent Agency

Jim Berk

CEO, PodcastOne

Jobst-Henning Neermann

Head of Marketing & Strategic Marketing, KBK Konzert-Künstleragentur GmbH (Germany)

Joe Belliotti

Head of Global Music Marketing, Coca-Cola

John Amato

President, The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group

Jon Kraft

Interim CEO, MUMO/Chairman & Co-Founder, Thrively/Managing Partner, LiftOff

Jon Lieberberg

Manager, Roc Nation

Jon Pleeter

VP of Concerts, ICM Partners

Kenny "Tick" Salcido

VP of A&R, Red Bull Records

Leron Gubler

President & CEO, Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce

Luke Mitzman

Founder, 100 Management (manager Zane Lowe)

Mamie Coleman

VP of Music & Production, Fox Broadcasting Company

Mandar Thakur

Chief Operating Officer, Times Music (India)

Marc Wilson

Director of A&R, Warner/Chappell Music

Mark Beaven

Founder & Co-CEO, Advanced Alternative Media, Inc.

Mark Sutherland

Editor, Music Week

Maureen Kenny

Sr. VP of A&R, Atlantic Records

Mike Fink

Sr. Director of Industry Relations, Pandora

Mike Jbara

CEO, MQA

Mike Walsh

Deputy Programme Director/Head Of Music, Radio X (UK)

Mio Vukovic

Sr. VP of A&R & Head Of Creative, Disney Music Group

Paramdeep Singh

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Saavn

Paul I. Menes

Co-Head of Entertainment & Media, ADLI Law Group

Pete Ganbarg

Head of A&R, Atlantic Records Group

Peter Leak

Manager, Red Light Management

Pieter Viljoen

Assistant Editor, Rock Paper Scissors

Prashan Agarwal

COO, Gaana

Reynold D'Silva

Managing Director, Silva Screen Music Group

Rishi Shah

Founder/ CEO, RAVE Magazine

Ritch Esra

Publisher, Music Business Watch

Robin Jenssen

VP & General Manager, EKKO Music Rights Europe

Ron Bension

President, House of Blues Entertainment/Live Nation

Sam Kling

Sr. VP of Creative Operations, SESAC

Saugato Bhowmik

EVP & Business Head, Consumer Products & Integrated Network Solutions, Viacom 18 Live (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon)

Savan Kotecha

Songwriter/Producer

Scott Burnell

Global Lead, Bus Dev & Partner Mgmt. Ford Developer Program , Ford Motor Company

Seymour Stein

Co-Founder & Chairman, Sire Records & VP, Warner Bros Records

Shridar Subramaniam

President, Sony Music India & Middle East

Soham Mehta

Film Producer (Fatakra, Survivors, Awesome Asian Bad Guys)

Steve Knill

EVP of Global Sports & Entertainment Consulting, GMR Marketing

Steve Strange

Partner, X-ray Touring

Sunil Perkash

Movie Producer (Enchanted, S.A.L.T, Premonition)

Thaddeus Rudd

Co-President & Co-Owner, Mom+Pop Music

Thomas Golubić

Owner/Music Supervisor, SuperMusicVision

Tim Ingham

Founder & Publisher, Music Business Worldwide

Tom Hoppa

Director Artist Relations BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival / Latitude 38 Ent't & Co-Founder/Partner Highway 29 Ent't

Tracey Trench

Owner/Producer, Tracey Trench Productions

Tricia Holloway

Head of Music, Freeform

Vincent "Tuff" Morgan

Director Pop & Urban, Peermusic

Ward Hake

VP of TV Music, Twentieth Century FOX Television

William Simon

Global Sector Leader, Media & Entertainment, Korn Ferry

Yair Landau

Founder, Mass Animation

Zach Katz

President, Repertoire & Marketing, U.S., BMG

ZACH KATZ

ZACH KATZ

President, Repertoire & Marketing, BMG US

Zach Katz currently serves as BMG US president, repertoire and marketing, spearheading both music publishing and recordings. He and his team are in charge of BMG US rosters, including music publishing stars such as Bruno Mars, John Legend, Frank Ocean and Quincy Jones and recordings artists such as Blink-182, Alabama, Iron Maiden and OK Go. Based in BMG's Los Angeles office, Zach is also responsible for BMG teams in New York, LA and Nashville, as well as Rise Records in Portland, Oregon.

Zach began his career at BMG in 2012 as chief creative officer. His recent appointment comes just four months after he was promoted to president of music publishing, BMG US, leading the company's creative teams in LA, New York and Nashville and sparking a run of chart success which boosted the company's market share to double digits. Prior to BMG, Zach co-founded label Beluga Heights with his client/partner JR Rotem, earning multi-million dollar album sales and tens of millions of singles sales with artists including Jason Derulo and Sean Kingston. Previously, he served as GM of Groove Attack USA. He began his career in 1996 as a music attorney.