(Former Head of Rock, Spotify & Host/Executive Producer, Spotify Original Series)
Booking Agent, Sound Talent Group
Charley Londoño
Counsel Plus, Co.
Chris Foitle
Head of A&R, Epitaph Records
Founder & CEO, Velvet Hammer Music & Management Group (Alice In Chains, Deftones, Korn, System Of A Down & More)
Director, Buma ROCKS! (The Netherlands)
Garrett Capone
VP of Promotion & GM Rock Music, Crush Music
Executive Sr. VP / Talent & Curation, Danny Wimmer Presents
Sr. Business Affairs Manager, FCB NY
Sr. Vice President A&R, Warner Chappell Music
Chairman of APRKA (Czech Republic)
CEO, Eventim Live Asia
Founder, Blue Lemon Management (Sweden)
Managing Director, RBK Fusion (Germany)
Executive Manager, YMU
Program Director, 95/5 KLOS Meruelo Media, Los Angeles
Rock Editor, AllAccess.com
Sr. VP/Head of A&R, Red Bull Records
Head of Artist Relations, IndieFlow
Lisa Worden
Vice President Rock & Alternative, Program Director ALT 98.7 - LA's New Alternative, iHeartMedia National Programming Group
Music & Media Journalist (U.K.)
Founder, Endless Music (The Netherlands)
Matt Pinfield
Host "New & Approved" KLOS, Los Angeles / Westwood One & Benztown Radio Networks Syndicated Host
Co-Founder, Artist For Artist
Michael Faley
President, Metal Blade Records
Owner & Founder, Ranka Kustannus
Publisher, The Music Registry
President & Founder, Mad Mac Entertainment
Founder, Infinite Dreams / Bangalore Open Air Festival (India)
Sat Bisla
President & Founder, A&R Worldwide / Global Rock Summit
Sean Heydorn
Vice President, Rise Records
Artist & Producer Manager, Creative Consultant, SOS Management
Founder & Managing Director of Third Culture Ent't (India)
Thomas Scherer
President, Repertoire & Marketing, Los Angeles & New York, BMG
Award Winning Producer (Alice In Chains, KISS, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, Primus & More)
Sr. Programming Director/Music Strategies, Trafalgar Releasing
Gary Spivack
Executive Sr. VP / Talent & Curation, Danny Wimmer Presents
With over three decades of music industry experience, Gary Spivack currently serves as Executive Senior VP/Head of Talent at Danny Wimmer Presents as well as President of RockHouse Presents Inc. DWP has become the nation's undisputed leader in rock/hard rock destination music festivals while RockHouse Presents has established itself as one of the top talent booking concert companies specializing in the alternative and rock music genres.
After earning a BFA from the University of Colorado, Gary entered the music industry as a drummer for a handful of (struggling) Los Angeles rock bands.
Gary decided to cross-over to the business side and in 1990 was hired by Elektra Records as the labels West Coast promotion manager. This led to VP/Rock & Alternative Music Promotion & Marketing stints at MCA, Atlantic, Capitol and finally his last label stop at Geffen Records in 2003. After 16 years climbing up the record label ladder, in 2006, Gary launched Right Arm Entertainment with two partners which, in 2013, evolved to his own talent buying company now known as Rockhouse Presents.
Gary is in daily contact with the top artist managers, label heads, music agents, national & regional promoters, and key rock alternative radio programmers from all over North America.
Gary has not one but two published books to his credit. In 2004, MTV Books put out "Coldplay. Look At The Stars" a riveting story of how Coldplay conquered America as told from Gary's POV during his tenure as a VP at Capitol Records. And Gary wrote the forward and conclusion to "Rock On The Range…where rock lives" a book celebrating the 5th anniversary of America's #1 rock festival, Rock On The Range.
Gary served as lead producer for the rock doc "Long Live Rock…celebrate the chaos" currently streaming on both Prime Video and Apple TV. This deep dive into the beloved but often misunderstood genre of hard rock was filmed over 3 years at various festivals that Gary helped book&curate and features such A-level rock bands as Metallica, Guns 'N Roses, Tom Morello, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie, Stone Temple Pilots, Greta Van Fleet and many more.
Over his career, Gary has guest lectured at Cal State Northridge (serves as an adjunct prof), University of Colorado, The Musicians Institute and has participated in numerous amounts of seminars, and convention panels spreading and sharing his vast knowledge and wisdom to audiences across the country.