2017 Board of Directors Board Of Directors Officers Sally Williams Chairman Ryman Auditorium Bill Simmons President The Fitzgerald Hartley Company Jody Williams President Elect BMI Kurt Johnson Secretary/Treasurer Townsquare Media Directors Allen Anders AEG Live Rob Beckham WME Kix Brooks Steve Buchanan Opry Entertainment Frank Bumstead Flood, Bumstead, McCready, & McCarthy, Inc. Terry Calonge Richards & Southern, Inc. Tony Conway Conway Entertainment Group J. William Denny Denny Properties Bob DiPiero Being Bob Music Ann Edelblute The HQ John Esposito Warner Music Nashville Karen Fairchild Little Big Town Randy Goodman Sony Music Nashville Lon Helton Country Aircheck Marion Kraft ShopKeeper Management Luke Laird Creative Nation Music Maria Molin Ljunggren Capitol Music Group Sweden Everett Lybolt Sound Image John Marks Spotify Michael Martin ASCAP Bill Mayne Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc. Shane McAnally SMACKSongs, LLC Charlie Morgan Emmis Communications Milly Olykan AEG Europe/The O2 London Ralph Peer II peermusic Brian Philips CMT – Country Music Television Sally Seitz Apple / iTunes Jimmie Lee Sloas Biff Watson Biff-Bangs Productions, Inc. Dwight Wiles Wiles + Taylor & Co., PC Directors at Large Marcie Allen MAC Presents, LLC Jim Beavers Steve Blatter Sirius XM Satellite Radio Scott Borchetta Big Machine Label Group Becky Brenner Albright & O’Malley & Brenner Country Radio Specialists. Chris DuBois Sea Gayle Music Mike Dungan Universal Music Group Nashville Kerri Edwards KP Entertainment Brett Eldredge Ted Ellis Harbour Media Partners Joe Galante Galante Entertainment Organization Jeff Garrison Cox Media Group John Hamlin Switched On Entertainment Ed Hardy Hardy Media and Entertainment Group Mary Hilliard Harrington Red Light Management Clint Higham Morris Higham Management John Huie Creative Artists Agency Clay Hunnicutt Big Loud Records Brett James Cornman Music and Management Vivien Lewit YouTube/Google Jon Loba BBR Music Group Deb McDermott Media General Ebie McFarland Essential Broadcast Media Mike McVay Cumulus Media Jim Ed Norman The Curb Group Brian O’Connell Live Nation Nashville Jason Owen Sandbox Entertainment Rod Phillips iHeartMedia David Ross BossRoss Media Darius Rucker Stacey Schlitz SchlitzLAW Scott Scovill Moo TV, CenterStaging, and Moo Creative Media Bob Shennan BBC Jennie Smythe Girlilla Marketing Clarence Spalding Maverick Jeff Stevens Jeff Stevens Music Troy Tomlinson Sony/ATV Music Publishing Ben Vaughn Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Troy Vollhoffer Premiere Global Production Company, Inc. Tim Westergren Pandora Media Chris Young Ex-Officio Jim Free The Smith-Free Group, LLC Butch Spyridon Nashville Convention & Visitors Corporation Kyle Young Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Legal Counsel R. Horton Frank Watkins & McNeilly, PLLC Richard Frank Counsel Emeritus Joel Katz Greenberg Traurig, LLP
