Wednesday, March 30 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Track III: Mobile Music: Groovin’ to a New Beat and Bringing in the Revenue The music industry and the mobile community were made for each other. We got an inkling of it twenty years ago when the Walkman changed the way people listened to music, but we didn’t understand just how it would emerge until a couple of hundred million wirelessly connected handheld devices got sold to the consumer in one year. That is a whole other story. As a result of the mobile explosion, music and the consumer experience is about to take on a whole other relationship. Music as ringtone, mobile device as retail provider, mobile device as radio player, mobile device as music library, the consumer will be fully immersed in a mobile music experience. In this session we will not only address the question of mobile device as a musical provider, we will address the issue of revenue generation in that process. With the industry experts in the session representing all sides of the mobile revenue question, it is bound to be informative. Beth Levine, VP Product Management & Strategy, Melodeo Ted Cohen, Senior Vice President, D3 – Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music Neil Strother, Senior Analyst, In-Stat/MDR Mike Brochu, CEO, Loudeye Richard Sharp, CEO, PodChannels, Inc. Andy Milburn, CTO, AIEntertainment Paul Resnikoff, founder & Editor, DigitalMusicNews.com, Moderator Bill Valenti, CEO, Melodeo: Bill Valenti is a seasoned entrepreneur and global-business executive, combining more than 20 years of experience in international investment banking and successful technology start-ups. Valenti spent 17 years in Asia developing commercial and investment banking business for Chemical Bank/Riggs Bank. Returning to the U.S., he launched New Pacific Partners, an investment banking partnership focused on Asian-market strategies. He later served as CEO of Tegic Communications, a software development/licensing firm that was later acquired by AOL. Valenti also has founded and/or headed a number of innovative companies including World2Market, Hutchison Mediator and HEEDworks, Inc. Valenti received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Temple University and a Master’s in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management. He remains active on the boards of a number of start-up companies and served as a Trustee of the International Snow Leopard Trust. Ted Cohen, Vice President, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Recorded Music: As Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Recorded Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this "big five" record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio. In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide policies, which have allowed EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena. Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Webnoize ’98 & ’99 conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media. Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and several other entertainment, computer and new media organizations. A 25-year industry veteran, Cohen serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, Co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to the Grammy In The Schools Program. Andy Milburn is an entrepreneur, composer and programmer. He wrote one of the first commercial digital audio editors ("Studio Magic" for the Amiga, 1985). While at Princeton University in the late 80's, he contributed to the seminal computer music language "Cmix". He founded "tomandandy", a music production company, in 1990, with Thomas Hajdu. Since then, tomandandy has created thousands of pieces of music for tv commercials, video games, movies and records. He is also a film composer, writing scores for "The Mothman Prophecies", "The Rules of Attraction", "Killing Zoe", and many others. His most recent venture, AI Entertainment, is developing technology for the consumer manipulation and repurposing of digital media. Beth Levine, Vice President of Product Management & Strategy, Melodeo: An industry expert in online music service, Beth Levine joined the Melodeo team in 2004, bringing increased capability levels to the company’s new product and service development, business partnerships and strategic planning. Prior to joining Melodeo, Levine oversaw the Music Services business at RealNetworks, with responsibility for all of Real’s music applications and web properties. She also held key leadership roles in Real’s media hosting business (RBN) and the company’s Internet and Enterprise server groups, managing product management and marketing teams. Prior to Real, Beth was a strategy consultant with A.T. Kearney in the Consumer Products Practice, focusing on strategic marketing and new product development projects for Fortune 500 clients. She has also worked for PepsiCo Foods International and The Clorox Company. Beth holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard.