Ashley Johnson-Blanke Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

• Manage budgets and overages and create project estimates for over 90 artist projects • Work closely with royalties department and business & legal affairs to set up royalty accounts appropriately, notify finance and A&R about such accounts and allocate recoupable costs in accordance with contract requirements• Track contractual options for assigned artists/deals, circulate departmental option reports and secure label decisions with respect to options• Work with finance and business and legal affairs to review and approve artist/producer royalty statements, new deal commitments and P&L models for finance review with regard to new deals or options• Periodically support A&R in issuing purchase orders (POs) for travel, studio bookings, equipment rentals and other recording costs on an as needed basis• Correspond with A&R, management, producers, engineers, etc. regarding day-to-day matters of budgets, payments and other issues on an as needed basis• Contact vendors for tax, payment and invoicing information and coordinate with accounts payable for processing• Prepare and execute contractual payments on behalf of the artists• Review and edit Budget Authorization forms for approval of finance • Prepare, edit and execute producer declarations, vendor agreements and union contracts

• Organized and maintained department files• Handled all incoming calls for the senior director and four manager• Validated invoices and coordinated with accounts payable for payment• Review and edit Budget Authorization forms for approval of finance • Maintain department project and vendor files in systems for all SME artists • Prepare, edit and execute producer declarations, vendor agreements and union contracts• Administer calls and calendars for the Senior Director and four managers• Administer budgets for promotional videos, marketing and DVD budgets• Track costs and book travel for prospective artists

• Coordinated entertainment for several events, i.e.: bands, models, makeup artists• Made sales calls to prospective clients • Created and mailed marketing and promotional information about company services to prospective clients• Drafted contracts for events and services• Organized meetings with clients and venues• Responsible for various administrative tasks such as all incoming calls, messages and calendars