Creative manager for Peermusic France, he’s also European Creative Director for Peermusic since 2008. After working for Warner Chappell, he joined Peermusic in 2000 and works as a creative manager for the French office, handling the catalogue exploitation, music searches for synch and the development of singers/songwriters, mainly in the independent field.

Peermusic

Founded by Ralph S. Peer in 1928, Peermusic is the world’s largest global independent publishing company and operates 35 offices in 28 countries.  With well over a quarter of a million titles in the company’s catalogue, and songs that vary from country, blues, jazz and pop to Latin, concert  and rock ‘n’ roll, Peermusic is the largest privately owned company of its kind in the world.

Matt Pincus is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Songs Music Publishing, a music publishing firm located in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Among the wide range of writers represented by Songs are Big Jerm (Mac Miller), Dev, Q-Tip, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk), Jose Gonzalez, Brian Lee (Lady Gaga), and Andrew McMahon (Jack’s Mannequin, Something Corporate). Songs also owns control shares in a growing number of catalogs, including the works of Pharrell Williams (Hollaback Girl, Milkshake, Rock Your Body, etc.), Living Colour (Cult of Personality, Time's Up, etc.), Das EFX, and Stryper. In addition, Songs has publishing joint ventures with Crush Management, Indie Pop Music, and Mom+Pop Records, a division of QPrime Management.

Under Matt’s leadership, Songs has grown from its inception in 2004 to represent over 250 songwriters in all genres of music. The company now employs a staff of 20 people across its three offices. Songs’ substantial growth has traditionally been organic and bottom up, through the signing of co-publishing agreements with individual writers and, more recently, through a string of catalog acquisitions.

Songs is a family enterprise bringing a long-term ownership oriented perspective, leading-edge practices, and a client service mentality to the traditional music publishing business. The company is a copyright owner in 100% of the repertoire it represents and controls its interest in 100% of the copyrights it holds. The key to Songs’ success lies in its intimate knowledge and direct control of the copyrights it owns and represents, and its efficient, technology-enabled clearance processes to ‘activate’ mid-level catalog copyrights without de-valuing top-earning songs.

Before founding Songs, Matt was a Strategy Associate at EMI Group, plc, one of the 4 major global music companies. Prior to that, Matt founded Some Records, an independent record label, and was a writer and Assistant Editor at New York Magazine.

In 2002, Matt graduated from Columbia Business School with an MBA. In 1995, he graduated with a BA in English from Columbia College at Columbia University. Matt is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) and a member of the ASCAP Board of Review. He is also a member of the board of directors of Community Impact, Columbia University’s undergraduate community service program, and a member of the board of trustees of the Wooden Nickel Foundation, a non-profit organization benefitting cultural arts institutions.

Marcus Johnson is a Billboard-ranked, NAACP Image Award-nominated jazz musician, from Washington, DC.
Johnson’s unique, self-taught style of piano play, has earned him distinction among his peers, praise within the media, and accolades across the music industry, but it is his background and personal story, which truly distinguish Marcus from his contemporaries.
Johnson earned a Law Degree and a Masters in Business from the Georgetown University Law Center. Over the last decade, the self-starting Johnson has released 15 studio albums—all of which have been met with critical and commercial success—while overseeing the expansion of a burgeoning entrepreneurial empire. He established Marimelj Entertainment Group, which included the Three Keys Music Publishing Company and Studio 8121, which produced Johnson’s albums as well as other notable acts in the United States.
More recently, Johnson has enveloped these earlier musical ventures into an overarching, comprehensive lifestyle branding company, FLO Brands, LLC. Aptly titled For the Love Of, at its core, FLO began as a musical publishing and lifestyle branding company to house all of Johnson’s musical and entrepreneurial ventures. The scope and reach of the company has expanded, and FLO Brands is now poised to launch FLO Wines in the first quarter of 2012 in conjunction with California-based Tarara Winery.
Having maintained the unique balance of being an artist, a music publisher, an attorney, and an entrepreneur, Johnson has come to the forefront of the music industry as a leading advocate and authority on the need for continued development and implementation for effective legal protocols and safeguards, as it relates to the intellectual property rights of the 21st century artist, amidst a changing digital music landscape.
As a publisher of nearly 300 works himself, Johnson has frequently addressed the literal and legal issues facing today’s emerging and established artists, including: Speaker, Harvard University Law School, Recording Artists Project: Contracts, Entrepreneurship, and Protecting Your Rights; Speaker, World Copyright Summit, Intellectual Property Rights (represented BMI), Speaker, Miami Music Conference: The Business of Jazz; Panelist, Microsoft: Build Your Business Tour; Speaker, GMAC: The Importance of Intellectual Property and Protecting Your Work Product; Panelist, Howard University School of Law: Center Court Panel on Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property; Speaker, Georgetown University Law Center; Ambassador, BMI: Intellectual Property; Award Recipient, U.S. Small Business Administration: Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Creatively, Johnson continues to evolve as an artist. With the recent release of his FLO: Holiday CD and the ongoing collaboration with famed Parisian Producer DJ Pulse—as the musical duo, JURIS—he has managed to maintain his traditional jazz routes, while also remaining on the forefront of the expanding ‘Euro Jazz’ movement.
When he is not recording, performing, or working as the face of FLO Brands, Johnson has served professorial stints at both law and business schools in the Washington,  DC area, addressing entertainment law as well as intellectual property rights and legislative reform. Johnson is also a community leader in his native DC, spearheading key philanthropic and youth-empowerment campaigns, such as the MJ Music Camp, the national launch of the Red Cross Holiday Cards for Heroes Program, and the Hear Our Voices: Anti-Bullying Campaign.

Helen Gammons - MBA, has had three decades of experience as International Creative Director and business affairs for leading industry companies encompassing music publishing, music supervision, synchronisation, licensing, and label management.  Helen is the author of "The Art of Music Publishing" an entrepreneurs guide 2011.   Helen is also CEO and owner of 'Sync In The City', a music synchronisation and supervision service based at Pinewood Film Studios and co-owener of  Rotolight Ltd a technology company.  Most recently Helen has spear headed an exciting new relationship between the Music Industry and Henley Business School whose inspirational leader, professor John Board, has been warmly welcomed by an international steering committee of industry luminaries. The MBA for the Music Industry is designed to empower empassioned entrepreneurs, business managers and executives working in the Music Industry to become future business leaders.  The industry has welcomed this significant and timely MBA collaboration.  Henley Business School is a leading international business school based in the UK operating around the world. The economist rank Henley as being No. 1 in the world for quality of MBA students and alumni network, and has 65 years experience in developing business leaders. One of the world’s few business schools to hold triple-accredited status.

Helen has taken up the role of Programme Director of the MBA for the music industry which launches September 2012. www.henley.com