A3E - Key Persons

Adriano Clemente

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Sound Designer & Sonic Artist

Alan Umstead

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President / Nashville Music

Andrea Baldereschi - CEO, Founder

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CEO
Founder

Athan Billias

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Director of Strategic Product Planning / Yamaha

Brett Porter

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Chief Engineer, Development Practices / Art & Logic

Chanel Summers - Founder

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Co - Founder
Designer
Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
Producer

Chanel Summers began her career as a pioneering designer and producer of video games, developing innovative products ranging from high-performance 3D vehicle simulations, to action/arcade platform games, to hardware peripherals while working at early industry-leading companies such as Mindscape, Velocity and Mattel Media. Recruited to Microsoft in the late '90s, Chanel was responsible for the release of that company's first multiplayer internet game, Fighter Ace, a precursor to the rise of online gaming. Chanel was subsequently selected as the company's first Audio Technical Evangelist, in which capacity she was responsible for launching innovative audio technologies such as DirectMusic (a revolutionary method of creating and delivering interactive music and sound design) and also dramatically increasing the use of Windows as a platform for audio creation. With the inception of Microsoft's Xbox game system in 2000, Chanel was tapped to help design and promote the audio capabilities of the new hardware and to create the industry's first support team for content creators: a team of graphic artists, sound designers, composers and game designers who would work with the development community, coaching game creators to take advantage of the capabilities presented by Xbox. As a result, Chanel became a widely recognized figure in leading industry organizations, as well as the published author of a number of articles and technical white papers After leaving Microsoft, Chanel co-founded Syndicate 17, an audio production house based in Seattle and Los Angeles that specializes in writing and producing original scores, cues, and sound effects for everything from films and television shows to video games and web sites. In addition, Chanel is also a highly sought-after professional drummer, recording with and performing frequently in a number of nationally touring bands, working alongside such bands as Missing Persons, The Dreaming, Smile Empty Soul, The Last Vegas, Endless Hallway, and Vast, and showcasing in festivals ranging from CMJ to SXSW. Chanel is a frequent lecturer at both music and technology industry events around the world, as well as at leading educational institutions, captivating audiences as diverse as TEDx, Trinity College (Dublin), SESAC, the Irish Music Rights Organization, the Seattle Interactive Conference, the Develop Conference, The Centre for Digital Media (Vancouver, BC), and the Dublin Institute of Technology. Chanel sits on the advisory board for The Academy of Entertainment and Technology at Santa Monica College, is a member of the 5D Institute, a cutting edge research organization exploring the future of narrative media through World Building, and also consults on new developing game audio technologies and game audio designs. Chanel has also developed and is teaching a new course at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media & Games Division in the School of Cinematic Arts which focuses on the art and aesthetics of creating audio for video games and has also worked with the USC faculty on the creation of a dedicated minor in interactive audio for students looking to specialize in that area. Most recently, Chanel has been appointed the Chief Product Officer of Score Music Interactive, a revolutionary new start-up based in Ireland that is creating an interactive music publishing software technology.

Chris Halaby

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Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
CEO / KVRaudio, Inc.

Chris Halaby has over 30 years of experience in the music products industry, as a performer, retailer, educator, and entrepreneur. After receiving a degree in Art at Stanford University and a certificate from Guitar Institute of Technology he spent the next years teaching guitar, performing, and recording music. In the early 80s he opened one of the first "project studios" producing professional quality recordings from his garage. In 1985 he helped to found Opcode Systems, Inc, which became a market leader in the business of developing and marketing computer software and hardware peripherals used by musicians to compose, edit, and record music. Currently he is CEO of KVRaudio, Inc., a leading destination site for information about music technology.

Chris McMurtry

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Head of Music Products / Exactuals, LLC

Chris Wilson

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Developer Advocate / Google, Inc.

Christoph Kemper

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Founder / Kemper & Access

Chuck Rainey - Founder

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Co - Founder
Partner, Rhythm Intensive, Ltd., Electric Bassist, Author, Music Industry Consultant

Claes Johanson

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Audio DSP Expert, Product Designer / Developer / Founder, BITWIG GmbH

Corey Congilio

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Artist, Session Guitarist, & Online Instructor

Dan Brotman

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Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
CEO / Future Music

Daniel Deboy - Founder

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Co - Founder

Daniel Rowland

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Engineer
Head of Production Services

David Mash

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Member of the ADVISORY BOARD
Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology / Berklee College of Music
Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology at Berklee College of Music

David Mash is Senior Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Technology at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the world's leading institute of contemporary music. In previous roles at Berklee, David was the founding chair of the Music Synthesis Department (today known as Electronic Production and Design), the first degree program in MIDI and music synthesis in the United States, now internationally recognized as the premier music technology program of its kind; as Berklee's Assistant Dean of Curriculum for Academic Technology, David developed the Center for Technology in Music Instruction - a development center for supporting faculty's use of technology in their teaching, and helped design the Berklee Learning Center - the largest networked music learning facility in the country. The unique facilities for teaching David has designed have served as a model for interactive teaching environments at many major colleges and universities. From 1996 - 2005 David was Vice President for Information Technology, and was charged with the successful integration of technology into all college processes. In 2005, as Vice President fro Technology and Education Outreach, he began working to expand Berklee's City Music program into a national initiative through the Berklee City Music Network, which is now providing after-school music programs at no cost to middle- and high-school teens from underserved communities at 48 sites across the country. In order to provide access to excellent curriculum and learning materials, he helped to build the Berklee PULSE music method. Most recently, David led the development of a new online learning platform for enrolled students at Berklee called InsideBerklee. As a leading authority on music technology and education, David Mash has been featured on national and international media broadcasts such as 3-2-1-Contact, Newton's Apple, World Monitor, CBS Evening News, All Things Considered and Voice of America. He has also been featured on Apple Computer's video Macintosh, Music, and MIDI - The Open Door as well as BMG Victor's video Macintosh Music Bible Video - Volume 1 . He has been a pioneer in music and multimedia and composed the score for the digital movie Maria Lionza that won the 1992 International QuickTime Movie Festival award for best documentary. David has collaborated on development and artistic projects with leaders in the multimedia and music industries such as Kodak, Adobe Systems, Digidesign, Opcode, Roland, and Korg and has consulted on product development for many manufacturers of music technology products. He is currently the Executive Board Chair for the Avid Customer Association. Rolling Stone magazine has called David "the industry's leading evangelist for the marriage of music and technology." In 1997 David was named an AppleMaster by Apple Computer for his contributions to the fields of music, technology, and education. David is past International Chair for Electronic Music for the International Association of Jazz Educators, and maintains an active schedule as speaker and presenter at national and international clinics and workshops on art, technology, and education. He has also been the recipient of grants, fellowships, and awards including a finishing grant from Apple Computer, the Arts Partnership grant for Composition/Performance, and Jazz Composition Fellowship from the Mass Council on the Arts and Humanities.