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The Smartest People In The Room^®

Darryl Ballantyne and Karen Allen

Darryl Ballantyne and Karen Allen

60

min.

read

Darryl Ballantyne is the co-founder and CEO of LyricFind, the company which pioneered lyric licensing and data solutions for the music industry. A music industry "lifer", he started his career right out of college working for EMI.

Karen Allen is the co-founder and CEO of Infinite Album, which creates AI generated music for gamers. As a keen observer of trends - user, tech, and content - Karen is always ahead of the curve and the crowd. She literally wrote the book on Twitch and it's application for the music business, entitled Twitch for Musicians.

The Smartest People In The Room^® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.

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Meet the Author

Tom Truitt

Managing Director of Music & Live Entertainment

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