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 negotiation, administration, and management, Steve has also served as a panelist at a number of national music industry conferences.Excel at meeting deadlines and effectively motivating personnel.He functions as an outside independent General Manager, bringing to the table for that label, the best team possible to efficiently put forth the best effort on behalf of the labels artists. He deals with those daily tasks that need to be handled in the best way possible and reports back to the label his findings from the team of experts he works with.Consulting on all aspects of Record Label management from manufacturing, promotion, marketing to A&R Solutions.

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 for new act Signings.Managed production schedules for all (7) label releases.Created Sales & marketing plans for all new-releases.• 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 the recording artists signed to this Production Company. Artists signed and developed by Little Macho Music include: CHANGE (Signed to ATLANTIC RECORDS) BBQ BAND, HIGH FASHION (Signed to CAPITOL RECORDS) GORDON GRODY (Signed to JIVE RECORDS) (Coordinated production on these albums with producers such as: Malo Malaasi & David Romani, Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam, Kashif)

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