Universal Music Group, Business Development & Business Affairs, Global Digital Business

As Executive Vice President, Business Development & Business Affairs forUniversal Music Group's Global Digital Business, David has been instrumental in guiding the company into the next generation of emerging digital platforms, from downloads and on-demand streaming and subscription services to cloud based lockers, webcasting, satellite and interactive radio.

Since joining Universal Music Group nearly 16 years ago in March 1996, from his private entertainment law practice where he represented recording artists, labels, songwriters and producers, as well as film and television writers, David has been point for and overseen countless innovative, technology-driven deals that have kept UMG at the forefront of digital media and technology trends. He was, among other notable achievements, the creator and architect of one of the first ever music on-demand streaming services on the Internet (via Farmclub.com) and led UMG into the very lucrative mobile music business in 2003. More recently, David and his team led the business development and various infrastructure and distribution deal making necessary to launch the very successful Vevo service. In addition, David was instrumental in developing the innovative product and business model together with Cricket for their fast growing and immensely popularMuve Music service.

David and his team have completed literally hundreds of deals with a wide variety of companies including Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube, Google Music, News Corp's MySpace, Microsoft, MTV and Apple - just to name a few.

Follow David on Twitter: @ringster