Cindy Charles Consulting, President
Cindy Charles, President of Cindy Charles Consulting, has been working in the digital media space since 1997. She is currently doing business affairs and business development consulting in the digital media space for clients who have included RIM, Spotify, MOG, Smule, Topspin, Soundhound, EchoNest, Nintendo, iJukebox and others. Until recently, Ms. Charles was Senior Vice President, Law and Business Affairs for MediaNet. Previously, Ms. Charles held a variety of positions for MTV Networks over a six year period including Vice President of Law and Business Affairs for MTVi, an interactive division
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Bill Silva Entertainment, Manager
Ryan Chisholm joined Bill Silva Entertainment in 2006, assisting on all sides of the company (management, concert promotion, touring) while finishing up his undergraduate degree at UCLA. As the newest tech-savvy addition to the team, Ryan oversaw the New Media division for all management clients and Bill Silva Presents shows.
Ryan grew up with a passion for artist management, shadowing his father Kevin Chisholm, who worked as Santana's Manager/Tour Director for over 20 years. Over time, Ryan transitioned into the role of personal manager for James Morris
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SonicLiving, Director of Technology & Co-Founder
Steve Churchill is the Director of Technology & Co-Founder of SonicLiving. Calling San Francisco home, Steve Churchill has got 10+ years in working with startups, architecting platforms, integrating systems, writing code, and acting as a team lead. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.
Steve is a music lover and musician -- playing saxaphone and accordion with local musicians. Follow Steve on Twitter:
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BitTorrent, Founder & Chief Scientist
Bram Cohen is Chief Scientist and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc., and the inventor of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol.
Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon. Prior to the creation of BitTorrent, Bram worked at MojoNation. MojoNation allowed people to break up confidential files into encrypted chunks and distribute those pieces to other computers running MojoNations software. This concept served as the inspiration for Bram's development of BitTorrent.
Before MojoNation, Cohen was a quintessential dot-commer, working f
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Sonos, VP Product Management
Dan Cohen's experience ranges from founding and serving as CEO of startups to developing and leading technology businesses and product teams in large companies. Cohen is currently the VP of Product Management for Sonos, where he has global responsibility for the Sonos product line. Cohen is also a cofounder of mySpoonful, a service that delivers free new indie music to busy fans.
Previously, Cohen was CEO of Pageflakes, the social personalized start page. Under his leadership, the site grew rapidly from a European beta site into an award-winning Web 2.0 produ
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Tag Strategic, Managing Partner
Integrating his widespread digital authority in music, mobile, IPTV and product & service development, Ted Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAG Strategic.
In an industry that's been slow to embrace change, Cohen is the exception to the stereotypical music-exec rule. Of course, when you start a career on the road with Alice Cooper and Van Halen, you're more primed for the unexpected.
Known throughout the technology and music industries as being "part ambassador and part evangelist," Cohen was instrumental in crafting the licensing agreements upon which th
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RootMusic, Doctor of Pages
Matt Conn is the Doctor of Pages at RootMusic, creator of BandPage, the #1 music application on Facebook. BandPage represents over a quarter of a million bands and 25 million+ fans every month. Matt is a member of the founding team and helps guide platform direction and best practices of the system. As Doctor of Pages, Matt works with some of the largest artists on Facebook like Rihanna, Bon Jovi, and Green Day - Matt is focused solely on tools and practices to make sure users get the best possible engagement and most value out of what has become many artists'
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RootMusic; Doctor of Pages
Matt has been with RootMusic as part of its founding team since 2009 - As the Doctor of Pages at RootMusic, Matt has brought to life the BandPages of artists such as Rihanna, Jimi Hendrix, and The Glitch Mob as well as mid-size and long tail acts to make sure they get the most out of BandPage and Facebook. Matt works very closely with the Facebook platform to ensure that artists are utilizing best practices on the web and getting the most bang for their proverbial "buck". Matt loves to live life and infects that onto those around him.
TechCrunch, Writer
Josh Constine is a writer for TechCrunch who specializes in analysis of social products and music technology. Previously, he was the lead writer for Inside Facebook and earned a master's degree in Cybersociology from Stanford. Josh is a life long music fan who's been to 8 straight Coachellas, played in several bands, and maintains a curated concert calendar for his friends in San Francisco. Follow Josh on Twitter: @JoshConstine
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Pomplamoose, Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, filmaker
Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn form the recording duo "Pomplamoose." The majority of their new music is released as singles posted to YouTube. These mostly take the form of "VideoSongs", a medium they define with two rules:
(1) What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
(2) If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)
Pomplamoose's collection of VideoSongs are wildly popular with over 74 million views on YouTube. For example, the VideoSong for "Single Ladies" has garnered almost 9
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Yahoo!, Head of Business Development, Yahoo! Sports, Entertainment and Lifestyles
Jan leads the team at Yahoo responsible for crafting and negotiating strategic partnerships for the Sports, Entertainment, Games and Lifestyles properties. She has extensive digital media experience, having held leadership positions at Topspin Media, The Find and AOL. At Topspin, she managed partnerships with labels, distributors, technology, marketing, management companies, brand advertisers and anyone else interested in helping artists and fans find each other in the digital world. She was re
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Pomplamoose, Composer & Lead Vocalist
Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn form the recording duo "Pomplamoose." The majority of their new music is released as singles posted to YouTube. These mostly take the form of "VideoSongs", a medium they define with two rules:
(1) What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
(2) If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)
Pomplamoose's collection of VideoSongs are wildly popular with over 74 million views on YouTube. For example, the VideoSong for "Single Ladies" has garnered almost 9 million views, "Teleph
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TuneIn, CEO
John Donham is the CEO behind the world's fastest-growing music and listening service, TuneIn. John co-founded his previous start-up, social gaming company Metaplace, which was acquired by gaming giant Playdom in 2010. Playdom subsequently sold to Disney and soon after John was promoted to co-COO of Playdom, overseeing product and technology. John has a long-standing track record in consumer internet, entertainment and gaming.
He was previously a Vice President of Development for Sony Online Entertainment where he led the development of dozens of popular titles including t
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BMI New Media & Strategic Development, Executive Director, Business Development
Michael Drexler oversees BMIs New Media business development and is managing BMI's efforts to open up new revenue streams for writers and publishers in the digital world, ranging from broadband to mobile. He also serves on the contract negotiating team in the New Media group on all license agreements. In his previous roles as Senior Director of Business Development, Corporate Development and Strategy at Sony Music and Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Drexler led the evaluation of new business opportunities, investments and JVs and negotiated content and equity agreements in new digital environments. Drexler is also an accomplished
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Bandzoogle, CEO
David Dufresne is CEO at Bandzoogle, the most powerful platform for musicians to build their website, engage their fans, and sell their music and merchandise directly. Bandzoogle works with many thousands of bands and musicians to help them create a strong base for their online strategy. David is a reformed venture capitalist, having spent 8 years placing bets on software, web, and video game startups. He's an obsessive music fan and occasional DJ. David is also the founder of Backfed, a conspiracy to rewire the music economy (to launch later in 2012).
Follow David on Tw
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Eric Ferraro, Esq.
LeClairRyan, Shareholder
Iris Distribution, Co-Founder
Eric Ferraro is a shareholder at LeClairRyan where he leads the firm's corporate and venture capital practices in San Francisco. Eric focuses his practice on the representation of entrepreneurs, companies and investors in the mobile/wireless, consumer web, digital media and music technology industries. Eric counsels his clients in matters relating to entity formation and founder arrangements, corporate governance, venture capital, intellectual property, technology and media licensing, mergers and acquisitions and p
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CEO of DigSin
Jay Frank is the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional platforms.
Frank is also the author of two books. His first book, Futurehit.DNA, is a #1 Songwriting book on Amazon and part of the college curriculum at a number of colleges and universities. The book explores how digital technology has changed the way people discover m
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Music Reports, Chairman and Founder
Ronald Gertz is an internationally recognized authority in copyright law and music licensing, specializing in private and governmental regulation and royalty administration. Under his leadership, Music Reports has grown to become the entertainment industry's leading music rights administration service at the forefront of solutions to issues presented by the development of digital transmission technologies.
Mr. Gertz oversees all strategic planning efforts for Music Reports' New Media clients. In doing so, he counsels clients on emerging new media lice
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TuneWiki, CEO and President
Larry is an executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years' experience in the entertainment and digital media industries. Immediately before joining TuneWiki, Larry acted as a consultant for numerous video game companies and devoted significant time to helping launch several new businesses, including E-Line Media, a publisher of game-based learning products, and The Rundown, a daily subscription lifestyle e-mail for professionals. He also served on the Board of Directors of Emergent Game Technologies. Before becoming a consultant and entrepreneur, Larry spent alm
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DJ Tech Tools, Founder
Ean Golden is the leading innovator in a new age of djing that is sweeping the world. In 2007, He founded the first site focused on digital djs and controllers: DjTechTools.com. This global hub is now the community center for millions of djs that are learning to perform and become artists with dj software. Not just an innovator online, he has designed some of the most popular dj hardware in the last 3 years and created the controllerism movement, a modern twist on turntablism.
Follow Ean on Twitter: @djtechtools
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Official.fm, CTO
Lucas Gonze is the CTO of Official.fm. Lucas makes music tech, including the Yahoo Web Player used by Pitchfork and many others, connected device products at MOG, open source playlists with XSPF, and the Webjay playlist community acquired by Yahoo.
Follow Lucas on Twitter: @lucas_gonze
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Of-Counsel
Gary Greenstein is an attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He specializes in intellectual property, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions, with specialized expertise in the digital exploitation of intellectual property. He represents a wide range of technology companies in licensing transactions with copyright owners in the music, film, and television industries. He previously served as the first general counsel of SoundExchange and vice president of business and legal affairs at RIAA.
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Mobile Backstage, Chief Marketing Officer
Mobile Backstage Chief Marketing Officer David Hazan was previously CMO at UGC Ltd, creators of theBizmo and HitorNot.Throughout his extensive marketing career, David Hazan has consistently conceived and executed breakthrough entertainment marketing campaigns for his internet, brand, agency, and entertainment clients.
David's extensive music marketing experience includes senior positions held at The Orchard, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, Warner Music, Putumayo World Music and Wind-up Records.
David began his career as a musician before
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Songkick, CEO & Co-Founder
Ian is the CEO and co-founder of Songkick.com. Ian graduated from Cambridge University in 2005 with a first class degree in Engineering, specialising in Machine Learning. He then worked for Bain & Company in Asia and Silicon Valley specialising in technology strategy, before co-founding Songkick.
Songkick is a site for live music fans, and isnow the second largest live music destination after LiveNation. Recognized by Billboard Magazine as one of the Top 10 Digital Music Startups of 2010 and voted Best Innovation in BT's 2010 Digital Music Awards, Songkick makes it easy for fans to track concerts for their favorite artists so they never miss them live. Songkick aggregates artist, concert, festival, venue, and ticket information from across 60 countries, so fans can receive personalized alerts for upcoming shows in their town and find the cheapest tickets. Fans can use Songkick to share concerts
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Jammit, CEO
Scott Humphrey is a multi-platinum record producer, mix engineer, songwriter, musician and digital recording pioneer. His 30 years in the music business has spanned both creative and technical roles on albums for Metallica, Green Day, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, The Cult, The Crystal Method, Fleetwood Mac, and many more. Humphrey has earned several Grammy nominations and won a Dove Award for the best Christian Rock Album of 2004 for the self-titled "Day of Fire" record.
Humphrey is credited by Digidesign's chief sonic architect Mark Jeffery for conceptua
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VP, Product - LiveNation
Co-Founder - LiveNation Labs
Ethan Kaplan is the VP of Product for LiveNation. He is a co-founder of LiveNation Labs, a division of the company responsible for "disruption from within" and creating new mobile and web experiences for users and customers. Prior to LiveNation, Kaplan was the SVP of Technology for Warner Music Group and Warner Bros. Records. Ethan holds a Masters of Fine Art from UC Santa Barbara and in the distant past spent many years in publishing at the Orange County Register. Kaplan also continues to run the largest fan-site for the now retired band R.E.M., which he has done since he was 16. He and the
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Jamie Lincoln Kitman
Hornblow Group USA, Inc., President / Lawyer
Jamie Lincoln Kitman is a lawyer and the President of the Hornblow Group USA, Inc., managers of OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Doughty and Mike Viola. Clients have included Violent Femmes, Yo La Tengo, The La's, The Beautiful South, Pere Ubu and Meat Puppets. In my copious spare time, I am the New York Bureau Chief for Automobile Magazine, car writer for GQ and NPR's Car Talk, winner of the National Magazine for Commentary and the IRE Medal for Investigative Magazine Reporting. Follow Jamie on Twitter: @jamieki
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Counsel LLP, Founding Partner
David Kostiner is a founding partner of Counsel LLP, a boutique entertainment law firm based in San Francisco, an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law, and co-Founder of First Global Micro-consultants, a digital media metadata translation company. David began his career as a professional musician drumming in jazz clubs, later joining Dreamworks artist Creeper Lagoon and recording with Matt Nathanson and Patrick Park, among many others. He later co-founded theIndependent Online Distribution Alliance (
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PayPal, Director of Product Management, Digital Goods
Mary Ku has been at PayPal for over seven years, managing products in a variety of different areas, including PayPal's marketplaces business, international business, partnerships, and most recently digital goods. She holds a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.
Computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author
Jaron Lanier is a scientist, musican, visual artist, writer, and inventor. His book "You Are Not a Gadget" was released in 2010 and was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Michiko Kakutani in the NY Times. In 2010, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. His current interests include biomimetic information architectures, user interfaces, heterogeneous scientific simulations, advanced information systems for medicine, and computational approaches to the fundamentals of physics. He is bes
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Edwin M. Lee, 59, was sworn in on January 8, 2012 as the 43rd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. Lee is the first Asian-American mayor in San Francisco history.
Lee was elected on November 8, 2011 by the people of San Francisco while he was serving as Interm Mayor, appointed unanimously as successor mayor by the Board of Supervisors on January 11, 2011 to fill the remaining year of former Mayor Gavin Newsom's term who was sworn in as California's Lieutenant Governor.
While serving as Interim Mayor, Lee championed balancing the budget to keep San Francisco safe, solvent and suc
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Eleven Seven Music, VP Digital Strategy and Marketing
Gleaning from his many years of management in the skilled trades, Jason Lekberg began his career in music as Executive Account Director of the bleeding edge music centric digital marketing agency Youcast. While there he helped define artist social media marketing partnering with over 170 companies including Eventful, Sodahead and Twitter and launched multiple Ning communities including Thisis50.com. In 2008 Jason accepted a position in Digital Marketing at Epic Records where he handled artists such as Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles, and Franz Ferdinand. In 2009 he was promoted to Product Manager
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SoundCloud, VP Platform
Henrik Lenberg runs the platform team at SoundCloud, making sure companies and hackers can connect their apps to SoundCloud via the public API. Growing up in Sweden, he met the SoundCloud founders at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. After a year at Propellerhead Software, Henrik joined SoundCloud team in Berlin where he spent his first two years with the company before moving to San Francisco where the platform team is now based. Henrik is a true music gear nerd and used to be a professional sound engineer.
Follow Henrik on Twitter: @lenberg
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Clik and Kik, Founder & CEO
Ted Livingston sees the smartphone as this generation's best opportunity to change the world. As the CEO of Clik Interactive, Ted leads the development of a new technology aimed at letting users discover and enjoy content on any web-enabled screen and control it instantly from any iOS or Android smartphone. Using his deep knowledge and passion for the mobile industry, mobile user psychology and mobile technologies, Ted is looking to connect people with all the devices that are important in their lives.
In addition to Clik, Ted is also CEO of Kik Interactive,
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Singer/Songwriter for the bands Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven
David Lowery is the founder of two commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Originally trained as a mathematician, Lowery has long been interested in the intersection of technology, finance and music. In 2008, while serving on the board of advisors for a website called www.thepoint.com, he created a tipping point "campaign" to get his fans to commit to buying tickets for a proposed music festival. The campaign was a success. The Point later became Groupon. Lowery also teac
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Spotify, Hacker Advocate
Moved from San Francisco to New York City to help build a developer community around the Spotify Platform.
Follow Andrew on Twitter: @mager
Mashery, Director, Developer Products
Neil Mansilla is the Director of Developer Products and API evangelist forMashery. Neil is a passionate software engineer and tech entrepreneur. In his current role at Mashery, Neil is responsible for helping developers explore and engage the hundreds of APIs in the Mashery API Network.
Follow Neil on Twitter: @mansilladev
Walden Venture Capital, Managing Director
Larry's focus is digital media and consumer services.
Larry was a founding investor in Pandora (NYSE: P) in early 2004 when Walden led the rebirth round to focus the company on launching a consumer-facing service and was a Director through its IPO. Larry is a Director atSoundHound (sound and voice search), RootMusic (BandPage on Facebook),Aarki (mobile monetization), and a Board Observer at PowerCloud Systems. He also led Walden's investment in Terayon (acquired by Motorola) and Telekenex. He is a member of the Advisory Council for Industr
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reddit, General Manger
Erik Martin is the General Manager for social news community reddit.com and has been with reddit since 2008. Prior to joining reddit, he was the Head of Digital Media for independent film & music label Palm Pictures. He was also a senior agent and videographer for the public pranksters and internet darlingsImprov Everywhere.
Follow Erik on Twitter: @hueypriest
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SoundHound Inc., Director of User Experience
Aaron leads the team of engineers, designers, and support staff that produceSoundHound's products and services, and is responsible for end-to-end user experiences. Under Aaron's leadership, the SoundHound apps have become the most decorated music apps in the history of mobile software, earning top ten honors from the New York Times, CNet, Gizmodo and the Times of London, and the Billboard Best Music Engagement App award. Highlights from Aaron's tenure include the launching of viral features that increased users' social sharing twelve fold over ten months; in-app world premieres of singles by Secondhand Serenade, Pitbull, and Daughtry; and LiveLyrics, a multi-disciplinary project
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Red Magnet Media, Partner and Co-founder
Rachel Masters is a partner and co-founder of Red Magnet Media, which helps creative brands such as Hearst, Linkin Park, Incubus and Duran Duran develop unique and effective digital marketing strategies and monetization streams. Rachel is also an Advisor to RootMusic, Facebook's top music application. Previously, she held the role of Vice President of Strategic Relationships at Ning, managing over 300 branded social networks with partners like 50 Cent, The Collective, Ford Models and Warner Brother's Telepictures. Prior to Ning, Rachel was the As
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Hattery, Partner / Engine Advocacy, Co-founder
Josh Mendelsohn is a partner with Hattery, a San Francisco-based Venture Capital firm, and a co-founder of Engine Advocacy. A veteran of a number of Silicon Valley companies, Josh's career has been largely focused on startups and nonprofits and helping them scale to support growing customer and user bases. Previously, Josh spent six years as a Program Manager at Google after starting his career with the Federal Government at the Department of the Treasury and Department of Defense. Josh has an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.
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Eventbrite, VP of Marketing
Tamara loves live music events and tech events focused on positive social change.
Tamara leads marketing for Eventbrite; focusing on customer acquisition, retention, and branding. She is passionate about spreading the good word for Eventbrite and the magic of bringing people together through events. She is equally obsessed with the power of social media and believes that technology changes everything.
Prior to Eventbrite, Tamara was a senior analyst with Forrester Research, an independent technology research and consulting firm. As an expert on eCommerce tech
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Onesheet, Founder
Brenden Mulligan is a technology entrepreneur, designer, and engineer. Mulligan previously founded artist content syndicator ArtistData, which was acquired in May 2010 by Sonicbids. His latest startup, Onesheet, launched to critical acclaim and has seen explosive growth since July.
Cantora, Co-Founder & CEO
Nick Panama is Co-Founder and CEO of Cantora, an entertainment and technology company composed of a record label, music publisher, live events agency, and a VC fund focused on entertainment startups. Nick graduated the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University in 2010 with a degree in new media technology and entertainment business. Nick started Cantora Records while working A&R and marketing for Strummer Records/UMG and Dim Mak Records in high school. Outside of Cantora, Nick's passion for entertainment has led him to produce music videos for a number of established artists such as Dawes and the French Kicks, music
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Jelli, CTO
Jateen Parekh is the CTO and co-founder of Jelli. During the past 17 years, Parekh has developed innovative platforms and assembled teams redefining consumer experiences. Prior to Jelli, Parekh was recruited by Amazon as the first employee, Principal, and Head of Advanced Technology for the Kindle project. He was also an early engineer and architect at ReplayTV which launched the first Digital Video Recorder (DVR) consequently altering the viewing behavior of TV audiences. Prior to that, Parekh was at Philips Research in Palo Alto (Philips Multimedia Center) where he was responsible for the architecture and development of new consumer platforms
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