| Jeremy Silver
Company: Featured Artist Coalition
Title: Director
Country: UK
nov 27 - Master Conference: "Duets"
Jeremy Silver is a digital media thought-leader who has focused on the music industry for the last fifteen years. He is currently providing advisory services to the UK Technology Strategy Board on its work with the creative industries and its Digital Britain Test-Beds project. He is also acting-CEO of the newly created Featured Artists Coalition, a new music industry organization co-chaired by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and David Rowntree of Blur.
Previously he was CEO of Sibelius Software (a music notation software company) which he led for five years and sold to Avid Technology in 2006. He then also took on responsibility for Avid’s global education strategy across its audio and video divisions. Previously, Silver was worldwide Vice President of New Media for EMI Music Group in London and relocated to Los Angeles. Silver went on to run the ground-breaking, playlist- sharing music service, Uplister Inc, based in San Francisco. Previously, Silver was Director of Media Affairs at Virgin Records where he worked closely with many artists including Genesis, Meat Loaf, Brian Eno, Massive Attack and the Future Sound of London.
In 1994 he launched the Raft – inspired by Neal Stephenson’s seminal novel Snowcrash. A few pages of Virgin Records first website – are preserved here.
Silver serves as Deputy Chairman of Futurelab – an education technology think-tank chaired by Lord David Puttnam. Silver has presented talks and chaired panels on music and digital media at many conferences and seminars around the world including at Midem, Thinking Digital, In The City and TEDx. Silver has a PhD in English Literature and he also writes occasional short stories – when time allows.
More Details:
http://jeremysilvermusic.com
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