A+L Innovation Central: RIAA CEO Cary Sherman
RIAA CEO Cary Sherman talks with Andrew Keen about the importance of innovation in all its forms.
Cary Sherman is Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the organization representing the nation’s major music labels. The trade group’s member companies are responsible for creating, manufacturing, or distributing approximately 85 percent of all legitimate sound recordings sold in the United States.
As Chairman and CEO, Sherman represents the interests of the $7 billion U.S. sound recording industry, which now derives more than half of its revenues from a variety of digital formats. In 2001, he became President, serving in that capacity until 2011, when he was elevated to Chairman and CEO.
Most recently, Sherman was widely credited with coordinating the groundbreaking anti-piracy agreement between many of the nation’s largest ISPs and the music and film industries. He also helped negotiate a groundbreaking deal between music publishers and digital music services that simplifies licensing rules and enables a series of new cutting-edge business models. In addition, he has guided the industry’s efforts to define how music creators are compensated for new forms of digital distribution, helping to facilitate new ways to offer digital music to consumers. He has played an integral role in the creation of a number of cross-industry coalitions and has spearheaded the industry’s work with the higher education community to foster legitimate music consumption on campuses nationwide.
During his tenure as President, Sherman coordinated the industry’s legal, policy and business objectives in the areas of technology, licensing, enforcement, and government affairs issues, among others. Before joining the RIAA as General Counsel, Sherman was a senior partner at the Washington, D.C. firm of Arnold & Porter, where he was outside counsel to the RIAA and the head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. One of his special areas of expertise during his 26 years at Arnold & Porter was reconciling developing technologies and intellectual property laws.
Popular Capitol Hill publication Politico named Sherman one of the “Five key players to watch” in the newspaper’s Technology Forecast 2012.
Billboard Magazine named Sherman 76th on its 2012 The Power 100 list.
National Journal has described Sherman as an “intellectual property guru” and “one of the top copyright attorneys in the country.”
Sherman graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School. An amateur musician and lyricist, he is the Chairman of the Board of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. Sherman also serves on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and BNA’s Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, and has served on numerous other boards, including the Copyright Society, the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, The Computer Law Association, and The Computer Lawyer.
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A+L Innovation Central – Mike Montgomery Talks Spectrum
Andrew Keen chats with Mike Montgomery of CALinovates about spectrum.
Mike Montgomery is the executive director of CALinnovates. CALinnovates serves as a bridge between the thriving and fast paced technology community based in California and the slower moving but equally important public policy community in Sacramento and Washington, DC.
- CALinnovates brings together stakeholders in the technology and startup communities with government leaders to ensure a careful and considered approach in policies impacting the dynamic high-tech sector. Positive impacts would be an environment encouraging growth, investment, competition and result in more choices and access to the benefits of new technology for people in California.
- CALinnovates also works to educate the public on the latest innovations and uses of technology
CALinnovates’ members include C-level executives, political leaders, entrepreneurs, techies and the average Californian who is interested in keeping up with the latest gadgets and innovations.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Susan Athey and the Intellectual Economy
Andrew Keen discusses the intellectual economy with Harvard economics professor and Microsoft chief economist Susan Athey.
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Susan Athey is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Born in 1970, she received her bachelor’s degree at 20 from Duke University, her Ph.D. from Stanford at 24, and was voted tenure at M.I.T. and Stanford before her 30th birthday. After teaching at MIT for six years and Stanford for five years, she moved to Harvard in 2006.
Her current research focuses on the economics of the internet, marketplace design, auction theory, and the statistical analysis of auction data. Recently she has been working on theoretical and empirical studies of internet search, online advertising and the news media. She advises governments and businesses on the design of auction-based marketplaces, consulting for Microsoft Corporation in the role of chief economist since 2007, focusing on online services.
Professor Athey is an expert in a broad range of economic fields including industrial organization, econometrics, and microeconomic theory and has used game theory to examine firm strategy when firms have private information. Previous research include mathematical methods and tools for theoretical modeling, auctions, industrial organization, econometric identification, and organizational design. She has analyzed dynamic games and contracts with hidden information; applications include collusion and competition among bidders at auctions, ongoing trading relationships among privately informed traders, and the question of how much discretion to give a privately informed central banker in setting monetary policy. Empirical work has analyzed the effects of the design of timber auctions on the types of bidders who participate, revenue, and the prevalence of collusion. She has also been studying econometric identification, asking in a number of different contexts whether it is possible to learn about economic primitives using a combination of data and theoretical models, when datasets are large. Applications include auctions, difference-in-difference models, and models of consumer choice. She has published numerous articles in the top economics journals.
At the age of 36, Professor Athey received the John Bates Clark Medal. The Clark Medal is awarded by the American Economic Association every other year to “that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” She was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. In 2000, she received the Elaine Bennett research award, given every other year to an outstanding young woman in any field of economics. She received continuous funding from the National Science Foundation from 1995 to 2008, including a prestigious Career Development award. In addition, she received the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for 2000-2002. She was elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2004, and she is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2000-2001, and in 2004-2005 was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford.
She served as an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association; as an elected member of the Council of the Econometric Society, and an elected member of the Council of the Game Theory Society.
She has served as co-editor of American Economic Journals: Microeconomics and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and as an associate editor of several leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the RAND Journal of Economics, as well as the National Science Foundation economics panel, and she currently serves as an associate editor for Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. She was the chair of the program committee for the 2006 North American Winter Meetings, and she has served on numerous committees for the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, and the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
She is also an academic affiliate of Keystone Strategy, a firm thats support her business and policy work on market design. She worked as a consultant to the government of British Columbia in designing a market-based pricing system for government-owned timber, and she has consulted on the design of timber markets for several other foreign governments.
Non-academic honors include being named as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, Diversity MBA’s Top 100 under 50 Diverse Executives, and Kilby Award Foundation’s Young Innovator Award.
She was born in Boston and grew up in Rockville, Maryland. As an undergraduate at Duke University, she completed three majors, in Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. She got her start in economics research as a sophomore, working on problems related to auctions with Professor Robert Marshall. She was involved in a number of activities as well: she served as treasurer of Chi Omega sorority and as president of the field hockey club.
At Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, she received State Farm Dissertation Award and Stanford University Leiberman Fellowship, a university-wide dissertation fellowship. Upon graduation, her success on the academic job market was the subject of feature articles in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Boston Globe. At MIT, she held the Castle Krob Career Development Chair. She received the undergraduate economics association teaching award. She spent 1997-1998 as a visiting assistant professor at Yale University. At Stanford, she held the Holbrook Working Chair.
She is married to Guido Imbens, who is also Professor of Economics at Harvard, and they have three children, Carleton (born in 2004), Annalise (2006), and Sylvia (2010). Her main interest outside of work is spending time with her family.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast: David Lowery
Chris Castle chats with musician/teacher David Lowery about fan outreach, and his students.
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – David Lowery
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 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 teaches music business finance at the University of Georgia. Follow David on Twitter: @davidclowery
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Nigel Cameron on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Andrew Keen talks with Nigel Cameron, president of The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies discuss innovation, and legislation in regard to entrepreneurship.
Strategic adviser and futurist, Nigel Cameron is Chairman of FutureofBiz, LLC (Chicago, Washington DC, and London) and President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET, Washington DC). He thinks, speaks, writes, and has extensive experience leading high-level conversations focused on the future that cross disciplinary lines.
He travels widely. In 2010-11 he addressed conferences on all five continents, including the biennial innovation festival hosted by Australian finance giant AMP in Sydney, and Nanomedicine 2010 Beijing, where he moderated the track on regulation, ethics, and business. He keynoted the 2011 “world’s leading conference on content marketing” Content Summit in London. In 2012 he was invited to address the UN Rio+20 science pre-con, Planet under Pressure. And to moderate the European Identity and Cloud Conference.
A graduate of Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and the Edinburgh Business School, before founding C-PET he was Research Professor & Associate Dean at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), where he established the first U.S. university center on nanotechnology & its social implications, and led a study of the multi-sectoral implications of diabetes.
He has written widely on the policy implications of emerging technologies, including: Innovation President; and Scoping the Future (e-books for Amazon Kindle), The New Medicine, & Nanoscale: Issues for the Nano Century. In addition to essays on innovation and technology policy, he blogs at FutureofBiz and is a columnist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
He has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen Global Health Forum, and the STARS business leaders’ symposium.
He has also served on US delegations to the UN and UNESCO, and was invited to participate in the State Department-led scenario planning effort Project Horizon.
Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Steve Greenberg on the Evolution of the Music Industry
August 10, 2012 12:00 PM
Steve Greenberg is President of S-Curve Records, based in New York, which he founded in 2000 and is re-launching in 2007. S-Curve has had great success with a wide range of projects, including releases from such artists as Joss Stone (the three million-selling “Soul Sessions” EP and the four million-selling “Mind, Body and Soul” LP) and Fountains of Wayne (the multi-Grammy nominated “Stacy’s Mom”). Steve was a 2005 Grammy nominee in the ‘Best Pop Vocal Album’ category as co-producer of “Mind, Body and Soul.” S-Curve’s very first release, “Who Let The Dogs Out” by Baha Men, sold over four million albums worldwide and earned Steve a 2001 Grammy Award in the ‘Best Dance Recording’ category as producer.
In January 2005, Steve Greenberg placed S-Curve in hibernation in order to take the position of President of Columbia Records. During Steve’s tenure at Columbia, the label released hit albums by such established recording artists as Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Barbra Streisand, System of a Down, Neil Diamond and the Dixie Chicks, while developing new talent including John Legend, Anna Nalick, Boys Like Girls, the Jonas Brothers and others. Throughout Steve’s Columbia period, S-Curve’s catalogue continued to sell briskly, leading to the label’s placement on Billboard’s August, 2006 list of “The 20 Biggest Independent Labels,” for 2005-2006, even though S-Curve at that point had not been operative for over 18 months.
Prior to founding S-Curve, Steve was Senior Vice-President/Head of A&R for Mercury Records from 1996 to 1999. While at Mercury, he discovered the pop/rock group Hanson and served as executive producer of their debut album, “Middle of Nowhere,” which sold over 12 million copies worldwide and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. He also worked on albums by a number of other Mercury artists, including Jon Bon Jovi’s multi-million selling 1997 solo album, “Destination Anywhere.”
Steve previously held positions as an A&R executive at Atlantic Records (1992-1995) where he was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1995 for his work on “Otis! The Essential Otis Redding.” From 1991-1992, he was Head of A&R for Atlantic’s Big Beat Records label, where he discovered such gold-certified acts as Robin S (“Show Me Love”) and the Grammy-winning reggae band Inner Circle (“Bad Boys,” “Sweat”). From 1988 to 1991 he served as Director of International Marketing/A&R for Warner Music International, during which time he was nominated for a Grammy Award as producer of “The Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968” 9-CD boxed set, which has since been certified gold—the largest collection of CDs ever to have achieved that distinction. Before that, he was Staff Writer for WEA International, based in New York. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a radio and print journalist, based first on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and subsequently in the Middle East. In 1981 he served a stint as a disc jockey on the legendary Voice of Peace pirate radio station, which broadcast from a ship in the Mediterranean to all nations in the region in the name of peace.
Steve holds a Master’s degree in Applied Communication Research from Stanford University and Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from The American University in Washington, D. C. He also spent a year as a research scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communication. He is currently a Governor of the New York Chapter of NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences), the organization which sponsors the Grammy Awards and its sister foundation MusiCares. He contributed a chapter on the pop music culture of the 1980′s to the anthology “The 80′s”, to be published in 2008 by Oxford University Press.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Martin Nisenholtz of NYTimes.com on Innovation and Business Models
Andrew Keen talks with NYTimes.com inventor Martin Nisenholtz about innovation and online business models
Mr. Martin A. Nisenholtz serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Center for Communication, Inc. Mr. Nisenholtz serves as Vice President of New York Times Digital, LLC. Mr. Nisenholtz served as the Senior Vice President of Digital Operations of The New York Times Company since February 2005 where he had been responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of its digital properties. He served as Chief Executive Officer of New York Times Digital from 1999 to February 2005, after having served as President of The New York Times Electronic Media Company from 1995 to 1999, where he was the founding leader at NYTimes.com.
He served as Senior Vice President for digital operations of NYTimes.com. During that time, he was responsible for the development and delivery of electronic products centered around the content of the newspaper. He served as Director of Content Strategy of Ameritech Corporation, where he had been responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services. He founded Ogilvy’s Interactive Marketing Group in 1983. He worked at The Ogilvy Group. Mr. Nisenholtz worked at Ogilvy & Mather Direct and served as its Senior Vice President from 1983 to 1994.
He began his career in 1979 as an Assistant Professor and Research Scientist at New York University, where he participated on the founding faculty of the Interactive Telecommunications Program and worked on pioneering interactive media efforts in the areas of education, healthcare and public information. He has been a Director of Yellow Media Inc., since May 2006. He has been a Trustee of Yellow Pages Income Fund since May 2006. Mr. Nisenholtz has been a Director of eXelate Media LTD since July 2010. He serves as a Director of Center for Communication, Inc. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of TACODA LLC (also known as Tacoda Systems) and the New York Academy of Medicine. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Ad Council, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Inc. He founded the Online Publishers Association (OPA), in June 2001. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors of The Advertising Council, Inc. Mr. Nisenholtz received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication in 1979.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Mark Davis on Data
Andrew Keen talks with Microsoft’s Mark Davis about Data, its value, and intellectual property.
Marc Davis invents mobile, social, media, and personal data technologies that connect people, the web, and the world. With a twenty year career of technology research and development spanning the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, UC Berkeley, Yahoo!, Invention Arts, and Microsoft, he has done pioneering work in context-aware computing, computer vision, mobile media metadata, social media, social search, mobile and social advertising, and personal data technologies and applications. He has transformed his ideas into over 200 patent applications, as well as numerous research prototypes, products, and publications. Marc Davis is a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on the vision and technology strategy for Microsoft’s Online Services Division. Based on prototypes from Marc’s team, Bing recently shipped Bing Linked Pages described by ReadWriteWeb as “what Google+ should have been.” Marc Davis is also a member of the Steering Board for the World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data Project and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Information and Communications Technologies.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: David Rowan of Wired Magazine
Andrew Keen talks with Wired magazine’s David Rowan about free content vs. paid content.
David Rowan is UK editor of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. His knowledge and understanding of trends in the world of consumer behavior, the digital era, social commerce and media has allowed him to become one of the most sought after corporate speakers on the circuit.
He writes the monthly Digital Life column in GQ magazine; the Tech Traveller column in Condé Nast Traveller, and tech and trend-watching columns for The Times.
Trained at The Times, David edited The Guardian’s op-ed, education, analysis and Saturday features sections. In 2006 he was brought in as editor to modernise The Jewish Chronicle.
David has edited The Guardian’s websites, made TV films for Channel 4 News, and written features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and The Observer.
In 2009 David curated an exhibition of British creative talent for the UK Government’s Cabinet Forum conference as a speaker.
As a keynote and corporate speaker David has travelled to Amsterdam, Dubai, Geneva, Moscow and Shanghai, to motivate and educate on topics ranging from the future of luxury brands to the new rules of business in a mobile-internet age. Recent media appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC Breakfast News, Radio 4′s Today Programme and Channel 4 News.
In 2010 David was a judge in the Brit Insurance Design Awards and the 2010 Conde Nast Traveller design awards.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central: Don Levy and the Digital Motion Picture Industry
Andrew Keen chats with Don Levy about the state of the digital motion picture industry.
Don Levy serves as Senior Vice President of Communication & Public Relations – Digital Production Division of Sony Pictures Digital (SPD or Son), a division of Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. and served as its Senior Vice President of Communication & Marketing. Mr. Levy directs corporate communications, marketing and public relations for SPD’s operating units including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment. He is responsible for the coordination of marketing and brand strategy between Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as other Sony companies including Sony Electronics and Sony Computer Entertainment. He founded SkyWi, Inc. in 2004. Prior to Sony Pictures Digital, Mr. Levy served in a similar capacity with Sony Pictures Digital Studios, supporting the studio’s digital production and post-production businesses. He joined Sony Pictures in 1995 and served as its Columbia Picture’s Awards campaign consultant working on the Oscar®-winning campaign for “Sense and Sensibility.” He spent six-years at Paramount Pictures where he was in charge of production publicity for that studio’s motion picture group. Freelance credits as a production publicist include numerous films such as: “Coming Home,” “Shoot The Moon,” “Running Scared,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Club Paradise,” and many films in which visual effects played a significant role, including “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “The Flintstones,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “2010,” “Brainstorm,” and “Poltergeist.” He began his career as an apprentice with the precursor to the entertainment PR firm PMK, Maslansky-Koenigsberg, and credits its partners, Neil Koenigsberg and the late Michael Maslansky, with early mentorship. Mr. Levy also held positions in television publicity at Warner Bros. Television, working on such mini-series and movies of the week as “Roots: The Next Generations,” “The Corn is Green,” and “You Can’t Take it With You,” and later with Associated Film Distribution as national promotion manager. Mr. Levy joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996 during its founding stages. In 2003, he oversaw the Academy Award® campaign for Imageworks’ animated short film, “The ChubbChubbs,” which garnered the group’s first Oscar®, to win the 2005 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on “Spider-Man 2.” Mr. Levy is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he serves on its feature animation nominating committee, the Publicists Guild of America, from which he received the Guild’s highest honor, The Les Mason Award, and Wilshire Boulevard Temple where he is active on committees. Mr. Levy has a certificate from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA where he studied marketing strategy. He is a graduate of the University of Denver, where he majored in Mass Communications and History. He attended New York University to study Dramatic Literature, Theater History and Cinema.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
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