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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In charge of Curve’s Services division. The role involves providing expert support in royalty processing and management for clients facing resource constraints or knowledge gaps. Responsibilities include managing the full royalty lifecycle—calculation, reconciliation, distribution, and reporting—while addressing clients' specific needs. By leveraging advanced project management skills, I’ve ensured accurate and timely royalty accounting for numerous clients over the years.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Supervise tracking, processing and reporting of label revenue from over 30 sources, approve label payments• Report P/P and Y/Y revenue analysis to the CEO and CFO• Identify inconsistencies and escalate income matters to partners• Lead 6mo artist and 3mo mechanical royalty distribution • Oversee digital distribution of all digital assets for label

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Digital Asset Delivery: Plan and execute master release distribution from asset creation to street date; ensure smooth delivery to all digital service platforms using third party distributors. Manage registrations, whitelisting and conflict resolution, as required. • Marketing & Promotion: Work with distributors to ensure all products receive maximum exposure using their in-house marketing and advertising tools. Develop Google/FB advertising campaigns. Work with marketing managers to pitch products to DSPs for playlisting and promotional opportunities.• Reporting & Analytics: Create weekly Digital Strategy reports. Proactively use DSP and CMS analytic reporting to maximize revenue opportunities.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Process incoming monthly, quarterly and annual statements from over 30 distributors and other third party revenue sources. Work closely with Finance team to track and reconcile label revenue. Label revenue analysis and reporting, as required.- Quarterly mechanical royalty statement distribution. Assist with Mechanical royalty requests and processing (direct and affiliated).- Review release schedules and handle new deal onboarding. Responsible for asset creation on the royalty system and neighboring rights registration with SoundExchange, PPL, Connect, PPCA and others for new releases.

Toronto, Canada Area

Role: Spearhead outreach, business development and artist acquisition in India.• Artist Acquisition: Identify, pursue and lead closure of deals with South Asian mega stars like Arijit Singh, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan, Kailash Kher, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan and 20 other high-profile artists through persistence and effective communication. Asserted the terms of the agreement with little flexibility.• Growth: Conducted strategic market research to spot the needs of the industry and built presence and trust by availing those needs. Leveraging word-of-mouth as the primary marketing tool for growth.• Access to “Black Box” Royalties: Optimized the quality of metadata to ensure maximum collection by ensuring that all of the 31 fields of entry were correct for each of the nearly 50,000 tracks put together.

Worli, Mumbai

Role: Assist the President in lobbying and public policy efforts with the government and head Anti-piracy.• Operations: Assumed ownership of two regional and a national conclave for members and stakeholders with over 200 in attendance in total. Directed everything from scheduling, logistics, press and designed the aesthetics (backdrop, invites, stage), the Executive Board unanimously agreed to give a month’s salary as reward for the job well done. Overhauled the organization’s internship program and supervised 3 legal and management interns. Supervised the IMI membership and ISRC programs. • Research & Analysis: Published two internal reports and contracted one study with Deloitte. Led extensive research on key digital music trends and music consumer insight both locally and globally and presented them to the board and the govt. in concise and visual presentations. Addressed several audiences on global and local pain points like ‘The Value Gap’ and music piracy. Summarized conclusive reports and consultation papers for Govt. Ministries, Copyright Board, Digital Crimes Units, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), GST Council, etc.• Strategy Implementation: Took charge of the Anti-Piracy department after the person in-charge resigned. Recruited and trained a team of 3 and improved URL hunting from a few hundreds to 10,000+ infringing URLs every month. Enhanced communication with IFPI which led to precise URL reporting and demonstrable improvement in blocking success rate by 15%. Built and maintained close working relationships with IFPI and music labels to ensure a constant flow of inputs and resources.• Project Management: Collaborated with Singapore’s division of BMAT on IMI’s Music Charts project in compliance with IFPI’s guidelines. Partnered with all the major music OTT platforms in the country to compile data for test runs and sent progress bi-weekly reports to IFPI.

Mill Valley, Ca

Role: Assist a Multi-Platinum Award Winning Record Producer, Scott Mathews in his new assignment as Chief Creative Officer at an exclusively designed B2B music discovery and licensing platform for Omnicom Group. • Sales & Marketing: Supported the acquisition of legends like Huey Lewis and Bob Dylan, several emerging artists and music libraries like BBDO and TBWA by creating visual and engaging client specific pitches, demos and never letting the ball drop on communication. • Product Development & Data Management: Sought continuous improvement in the accuracy of music metadata across 40 fields to further improve the quality of licensing option results for the client’s licensing agents. Simplified the submission process by introducing an easy-to-use online submission form.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Supervised 10 Resident Assistants and 600 plus residents over a span of 2 years.• Often spotted problems before they surfaced and confronted them, saving effort and time for the department.• Encouraged an environment of respect when it came to policy abidance among residents, instead of an authoritarian system.• Brought the community together through on-site creative event planning and a constant social media outreach.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Music For Visual Media, 3.76

Activities and Societies: - Head of the music and sound department for a children's mobile app game during the preproduction phase called.

Intro To Music Business, Music Business/Licensing

Bachelor'S Of Arts (Honors), Audio Production

Activities and Societies: Intro to Photoshop and Illustrator Prepared a business plan for publishing an Acoustic Rock album in the United.

Diploma, Audio Engineering

Learnt the technical concepts of Audio Engineering and applied them to several recording sessions. Designed a hypothetical recording.