Steve Bogen Email & Phone Number

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States

As president of SEMBC, an independent music business consultant firm that mostly works with independent Record Labels as well as some major labels. With more than forty years of extensive industry experience in all its aspects including, radio, retail, promotion, sales, marketing & merchandising, music publishing, publicity, artist development, contract.

Silver Spring, MD

• Implemented all the aspects needed to establish an independent record label.
• Secured national distribution for label in the U.S. marketplace.
• Hired & directed entire in house staff, hired & supervised all outside consultants: radio promotion, press and PRDeveloped Supervised & maintained all record keeping procedures.Coordinated artist contract negotiations.
• Collaborated with art department on trade and consumer advertising planned price and placement with publications.Negotiated with international labels & publishers for distribution & sub publishing in foreign territories

Rockville, MD

• Directed artist development and secured major production deals for Summit artists. Supervised production & scheduling of demo tapes & material selection. Negotiated contracts for production deals.
• Arranged all copyrights & publishing affiliates.
• Supervised all accounts procedures

NY, NY.

Supervised all pre & post-production, artist development, placed songs from catalog with other artists.Negotiated publishing agreements.Executed the sale of master recordings to major & independent record labels.

NY, NY

• Directed all daily administration activities.
• Production manager: appointed liaison between artists & the major record Labels to which acts were signed.Counseled the promotion & publicity departments of major labels.Coordinated booking with concert promoters or.

• Independent record promotion specializing in radio, retail & club promotion for major and independent record labels. Coordinated merchandising campaigns & in store promotion.
• Created, distributed press and publicity material.
• Direct supervision and administration of promotional staff of eight.

Ba, Liberal Arts

Theatre/Theater / Arts