Experience

proTunes

• United States
• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Licensing and Clearance

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Seattle, Washington, United States During my two-year tenure as Director of Licensing & Clearance, I have embarked on an instrumental journey of launching the music clearance division from the ground up. I cultivated robust connections with major players in the music industry, fostering relationships with both major and smaller labels. My role extended to overseeing Group Account Directors and Account Managers, ensuring seamless operations within the team. Notably, I led the recruitment and hiring efforts to assemble a… Show more During my two-year tenure as Director of Licensing & Clearance, I have embarked on an instrumental journey of launching the music clearance division from the ground up. I cultivated robust connections with major players in the music industry, fostering relationships with both major and smaller labels. My role extended to overseeing Group Account Directors and Account Managers, ensuring seamless operations within the team. Notably, I led the recruitment and hiring efforts to assemble a dynamic sales team, comprising Group Account Directors, Account Managers, and Music Supervisors, fueling the division's growth and success.

• Senior Account Manager, Music Clearance

  • Aug 2019 - Feb 2022

  Greater Seattle Area proTunes is a one-stop, global music transaction platform that simplifies music discovery, clearance, licensing, and rights management. With hundreds of music providers like Warner/Chappell, Universal, and Sony, and millions of music tracks, proTunes is the largest supplier of licensable music on the planet. Our account management team plays a critical role in providing amazing customer service to our clients and growing our overall business with them. I am responsible for… Show more proTunes is a one-stop, global music transaction platform that simplifies music discovery, clearance, licensing, and rights management. With hundreds of music providers like Warner/Chappell, Universal, and Sony, and millions of music tracks, proTunes is the largest supplier of licensable music on the planet. Our account management team plays a critical role in providing amazing customer service to our clients and growing our overall business with them. I am responsible for on-boarding new ad agencies & creatives while being the day-to-day contact for an assigned set of ad agencies and facilitating communications between our music library partners and our ad agency clients. My day can consist of contacting labels for music clearance, connecting a producer with a library for custom music, assisting a new composer onboarding to proTunes in order to participate in our vendor services and royalty collections. It is a thrill to assist top tier ad agencies and brands license music from major artists, large production libraries, composers and new bands and create amazing spots seen worldwide.



voicebank.net, Inc.

• President/COO

  • Mar 1999 - Jul 2019

  Los Angeles, California, United States voicebank.net was the leader in Online Voice Over Auditioning. We built a business from the ground up, even assisting many of the talent agencies in the US to build voice over recording booths and adding digital recording and DSL to their offices. I oversaw the Sales and Marketing Team, as well as, as the finance team. Our clients consisted of Fortune 500 Ad Agencies and the largest, most successful Talent Agencies in the US and Canada.

• Sales Manager

  • Mar 1999 - Sep 2004



Video Box Studios, Inc.

• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Aug 2003 - May 2007

  Los Angeles, California, United States A state of the art post production studio started by audio engineer and entrepreneur, Jeff Hixon. I oversaw the production schedule and staffing for the studio as well as handling business affairs for the projects the came through the studio including voiceover, band & singer contracts and music licensing I stayed with the company until its acquisition by Point360 in 2007.