Intro MMF-US and IMMF

Featured Speakers:

Neeta Ragoowansi, President of Music Managers Forum-US

Neeta Ragoowansi is the current President of MMF-US. She has been an entertainment attorney and music business professional for over 25 years, serving as a strategic advisor, business development resource, and legal counsel to entertainment and tech industry clients. She is also Senior Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs for Global Citizen, a Global Co-Chair of Women in Music, Diversity & Inclusion Chair for the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries and Co-Founder of NPREX (National Performing Rights Exchange). Prior to that, Neeta was founding head of artist-label relations and legal counsel for US digital performance rights organization, SoundExchange, VP of Biz Dev/Legal for Tunesat, Asst. General Counsel for The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a former board governor for 10+ years for The Recording Academy (Grammy organization). Neeta also serves on the advisory boards of IMMF (International Music Managers Forum), IAFAR, SIM São Paulo, and SXSW Conference, and has served as a panelist/speaker at over 300 industry conferences.

Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt, Innovation & Education International Music Managers Forum

Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt is an artist manager working with indipendent and signed artists, and consulting for managers across Europe, South Asia, and North America. He works in music rights, metadata, and usage data technology, to develop efficiencies for artists business models.

Jake advises The International Music Managers Forum (IMMF) on artists business models, and IP policy. IMMF is a global network of associations of self managed artists and artist managers in over 50 countries from Cambodia to Mexico, Japan to Italy. Jake leads the MMF DAO project, to evaluate Decentralized Autonomous Organization business models to raise finance for artists and build fan communities.

Jake is also a team member at Project Zero an ocean conservation network which launched a social token in March 2022.