Workshop
Technology in the Music Industry
Wednesday, 2/28
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
312 Ell Hall

A discussion about the last 20 years of the music industry and how technology has impacted the industry and more importantly how the individuals running the music industry continued to avoid the obvious issues and lost their industry.
   
Brad Naples
Entrepreneurial Success Solutions
Brad Naples has been a CEO and senior management business consultant to many developing high technology companies that have been media/technology driven with worldwide markets. He has been continually retained by blue chip highly respected VC firms such as Matrix Venture Capital, Tudor Ventures, Venrock Venture Capital, Volpe-Welty, Five Arrows (UK) and J.P. Morgan Venture Capital and others. As CEO early in his career, Mr. Naples drove the growth of New England Digital Corporation (NED), a start-up company out of Dartmouth College recognized for pioneering digital recording and the Digital Audio Workstation technology which eventually lead to todayís digital world of music enjoyed by many. He has also consulted to Avid Technologies, GTE/Sprint/ Open Science Systems and others. His unique educational background combined with real world experience ñ graduate of both Berklee College of Music and Harvard Business School, both leaders in their respective fields, provided Mr. Naples a practical real world insight into understanding, growing or turning around a company dealing with leading edge concepts.