President & CEO, APM Music
Former Head of TV/Music, NBCUniversal
CEO, Fenix360
Allan Klepfisz
CEO, Fenix360
Sr. Manager, Creative Music Strategy, Paramount Global
Senior Vice President of Film Music, Universal Pictures
Business Head, Create & Collab, TM Ventures (India)
Aton Ben-Horin
EVP, A&R - Warner Music Group
Vice President A&R, Red Bull Records
Director, Publishing Creative – Red Bull Records
CEO, LME (Management for Dido, Forest Blakk, Picture This)
Partner & Co-Owner, Best Friends Music (Manager of Billie Eilish, Finneas)
David O'Connor
Vice President, Artist & Business Development, Live Nation
British Consul General, Los Angeles
Founder & CEO, Seeker Music
Franny Graham
Vice President Creative, Primary Wave
Co-Founder & President, Allsaints Music Group (China)
Founder & CEO, Playlist Push
Composer & Producer
Vice President of Global Strategy, KREATION Music Rights
Music Coordinator, Creative Music Strategy, Paramount Global
Director A&R, BMG
Isaac Heymann
A&R, American Recordings
President, Virgin Music Group North America & EVP, Global Artist Relations
Jakub Kouřil
Organiser, Composers Summit Prague
Founder & Music Supervisor, Sound Advice
CEO, Eventim Live Asia
Manager, Creative Music Strategy, Paramount Global
Music Supervisor (The Way Home, This Is Us, Workaholics, Las Vegas & more)
Sr. Vice President, MDDN
Founder, WARM (Worldwide Airplay Radio Monitor)
Director, International A&R, KREATION Music Rights
Music Creative Production, Netflix Series Animation
Founder & CEO, Hooky
Music Creative & Production Series, Netflix
Founder, Counsel Plus, Co. / Attorney, Peter Law Group
Co-Founder, Little Wolf Music & Sound
Manager, Creative Music Strategy, Paramount
Sr. VP/Head of A&R, Red Bull Records
Associate Manager, Original Music, FOX Entertainment Music
Kristýna Nováková
Publishing Manager, Supraphon
Music Supervisor & Founder, Dreamboat Music
CEO, Times Music (India)
Founder, Cool Sh*t, Cool People
Partner, Head of A&R, Position Music
Contributing Editor, Music Business Worldwide (Music & Media Journalist)
Co-Founder & CEO, Cyanite
Vice President, Music Clearance, Paramount Pictures
Founder, Songrunner Entertainment
Host "New & Approved" KLOS, Los Angeles / Westwood One & Benztown Radio Networks Syndicated Host
Executive Editor, West Coast and Nashville,
Billboard
Michael Goldberg
A&R, American Recordings
Co-Founder & Executive Vice President, The Hello Group
Head of Creator Services, DistroKid
President of Music & Publishing, NBCUniversal
Global Partnerships Manager, AIMS API
VP of Music & Head A&R, UnitedMasters
Co-Founder & CEO, Stem
Sr. Vice President A&R/Head of Creative, Disney Music Group
Senior Vice President of Film Music, Universal Pictures
Nat Pastor
Co-CEO, Virgin Music Group
Co-Founder & CEO, Harmix
Vice President of Soundtrack & Marketing, Universal Pictures
Publisher, Digital Music News
Founder, Radish Music Supervision
Chairman InterTalent Rights Group/Chosen Music
Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Music, Universal Pictures
Founder & Chairman, Mobilium Global
Manager, Music Creative & Production, Netflix India
Publisher, The Music Registry & Co-Founder, MUBU-TV
Founder & Chief Creative Officer, The Orchard
CEO (Head of Europe), KREATION Music Rights Europe AB
Head of Music, Angel Studios
A&R, Position Music
Founder & President, A&R Worldwide/MUSEXPO
Founder, Alchemic Sonic Environment
(Academy Award Nominated Songwriter/Producer – One Direction, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift & more)
Director A&R, Sony Music Publishing
Director, Programming Music, FOX Entertainment Music
Head of Educational Partnerships, The MLC
VP Partnerships, Sofar Sounds
Shirley Halperin
Editor In Chief, Los Angeles Magazine
Founder & CEO, Malsons Media
Worldwide Executive & President of Music, Electronic Arts
Founder & Host, The Music Podcast
Founder & CEO, The Hello Group
Co-Owner, Mom+Pop Music
Sr. Programming Director / Music Strategies, Trafalgar Releasing
President & CEO, Position Music
Vice President of Film & Music Licensing, Universal Pictures
Business Strategist & Advisor, Malson's Media (India)
Assoc. Manager, Creative Music, Fox Entertainment
Co-President, Republic Records
Vice President, Brand Partnerships, Capitol Music Group + Motown Records
Vivek Paul
Business Strategist & Advisor to Founder/CEO, Malson's Media
Vivek Paul's life has been devoted to building global scale innovative products and applying his ethical beliefs towards helping the next generations of leaders. His methods combine Intellectual Capital, Creativity, and Humanity.
Vivek serves as a Business Strategist & Advisor to the Founder/CEO at Malson's Media. He is instrumental in the creation of the creative incubation business model of Malsons empowering +15BN socially active digital universe of roster talent. This includes mainstream and emerging artists such as Pop Icon Jubin Nautiyal, Breakthrough Global Punjabi Hip-Hop Rapper Shubh and Malson's first equity investment deal. Beginning 2024, Vivek Paul, and Malsons Media gear up for more innovations, excellence in creativity, greater international markets development and expanding Malsons incubations portfolio in the wider Entertainment, Technology and Innovations sector.
Vivek Paul is also the Founder of Gatsvy Consulting fulfilling the market gap and solving market problems by nurturing and developing early stage startups emerging from the US, SEA, and the Indian market. Gatsvy specializes in propagating intellectual capital and its applicability in the intersection of humanity, creativity and technology. So far he has impacted multiple industry verticals including entertainment, music, film, sports, education, telecom, OEM, live entertainment and not-for-profit ventures, transacting +300MN$ in revenues and +30MN$ in equity based financing.
With his vast experience in the entertainment & music industry which contributed immensely in enabling the foundation of the entertainment industry and its allied industries since the 1990's - he has contributed towards Product Design, Content Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Space Tech, completed seven (7) M & A's, accomplished +30 business plans resulting in global media-tech investments in India and been in pioneering positions in the digital media landscape.
In addition to holding leadership & management positions at Pepsi, Channel [V], Soundbuzz, Motorola, Sony Music and Migme, Vivek has also given his time to aid in a pro-bono capacity as well. He serves as a board advisor to various non-for-profit ventures focused on the upliftment of Folk Musicians, Girl Child Education, Fashion Industry workers, Breast Cancer Awareness, Ethical AI practices and Empowering creative artists in conflict areas. He played an important marketing role in international artists touring Asia and performing in India which includes handling the biggest music awards, and viewers choice categories.
With degrees from Berklee College of Music, London School of Journalism, WIPO and Stanford University, Vivek has created careers that span for over two decades and been an active force in the 5 large transformation cycles of business in India, Asia and the US. His career graph continues to focus in the sectors of entrepreneurship, entertainment & music business , innovations, and value creating around copyrights & IPR.
