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Brooke Wentz | Founder

Brooke Wentz is an award-winning music supervisor and seasoned intellectual property rights executive with more than 20 years experience working in the television, cable, film and recording industries. Her career includes six years as the Music Director for ESPN, five years as A&R Manager at Arista Records, ten years as on-air radio host of new music on NPR and licensing work with New Media and Music Direction at TechTV. As a music supervisor, Brooke has a diverse and extensive list of credits, including work in television (ESPN, HBO, Discovery) and film (The Devil and Daniel Johnston/Sony Pictures Classics, American Hardcore/Sony Pictures Classics, Ballets Russes/Zeitgeist Films and Academy Awards®-nominated documentary The Weather Underground). Brooke is also the author of the book "Hey, That's My Music: Music Supervision, Licensing and Content Acquisition" (published by Hal Leonard Corporation, 2007), a comprehensive guide to music licensing and copyright issues.

Brooke is also a Billboard-award winning record producer whose critically acclaimed recordings of world music, including "Global Meditation," "Global Celebration," "Voices of Forgotten Worlds," and "Africa: Never Stand Still" have been revered by many through the years. Her three-CD set "Global Divas” produced for the 1996 Third World Conference on Women in Beijing received recognition from Hillary Clinton. She was the music producer for New York City's 24-hour millennium celebration seen by an estimated 1.8 billion television viewers.

Prior to producing records, Brooke was an on-air radio host of new music on NPR and related stations where she interviewed hundreds of artists, composers and musicians, many which have been transcribed for publication. She continues her interviewing skills through a series called Sound & Cinema, and City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco.

A native San Franciscan, Brooke serves as a board member of the Stern Grove Festival, and on the SF Governor’s Board of NARAS. She is a member of ASCAP, BMI and University of Pacific Music Management Advisory Board. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Barnard College.

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