Cate Miller Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, New York

Greater New York City Area

• Partner with Senior Staff for process and user experience improvement initiatives
• Identify opportunities, design and deliver requirements for rights management tools across brands
• Liaise with Tech Team on development priorities, provide testing and feedback for projects
• Administer industry wide settlements including NMPA Late Fee Settlement.

Greater New York City Area

• Partner with Senior Staff for strategy and planning initiatives across all company brands
• Liaise with Legal team on regulatory, business and practical issues that may affect HFA clients
• Identify business needs and requirements for IT while on-boarding new clients and implementing new systems
• Educate administration and publishing clients on the worldwide publishing landscape
• Manage International Society relationships and data exchanges

Greater New York City Area

• Manage a team of 4-8 employees: assign clients and projects to staff, train and grow skill sets, perform reviews twice annually
• Oversee key client relationships and interactions across HFA’s traditional publishing and Rumblefish administrative services brand
• Assist Business Development with research and due diligence on prospective clients

• Co-managing team of 8 employees, organizing tasks, training, reviews and one-on-one meetings
• Building and implementing new tools, processes and practices to improve internal and external systems
• Analyzing new agreements and facilitating the application of agreement requirements within the business
• Managing relationships with clients across the HFA spectrum: publisher, licensee and non-traditional

Greater New York City Area

• Managing relationships with assigned publisher clients, serving as direct contact within the organization
• Resolving client inquiries; updating catalogue, requesting licenses, resolving claims, troubleshooting
• Income Tracking: reviewing payment history, artist agreements, label reporting, pursuing payment
• Managing relationships with international societies, helping them to navigate U.S. operations

• Work independently and with nearby Sales and Marketing reps to manage promotional events and contests for artists. Responsible for promotion, press and implementation of events
• . Using connections to create opportunities for artist interviews, and in station visits with College Press and Radio
• promote artists to area bloggers, press, record store personnel, tastemakers and campus club leaders as well as garnering visibility around the city

• Outreach to promote the website, competitions, and new tools
• Captured, analyzed, and presented results of online surveys and website SEO; drafted copy for landing pages, newsletters, videos, and online press releases.
• Assisted in preparation of sponsorship proposals and follow through on sponsored events.

• Served as direct assistant to the Event Manager and worked directly with artists
• Created the Wilbur Theatre Weekly Update, a comprehensive list of upcoming artists and bios along with ticketing information. Created systems for investigating new revenue streams for the venue
• Updated Pollstar.com; kept a records for all 2009/2010 performances
• Reviewed and edited artist contracts
• Solved recurring parking permit and merchandise settlement issues

• Used superior organizational skills to file and maintain royalty’s statements and reports for Atlantic Records, Bad Boy Records and other associated WMG labels
• Reviewed Side Artist Agreements and contracts for artists
• Input artist and producer royalty rates into database as well as changing and adding royalty rates correspondent to geographic territories, contract stipulations or separate agreements
• Assisted in the switch from an album based royalty system (rates determined from complete LP’s) to a track based royalty system (rates determined per song)