The Smartest People In The Room^®

Drake Coker and Neil Kohler

Neil Kohler is the co-founder of tiny vinyl, one of the most novel and coolest products you will ever see (or hear). And if the early results prove accurate, tiny vinyl will also become a wildly popular music industry standard very soon. Neil is a seasoned toy industry veteran who has helped grow some of the most successful toy brands in history, such as Cranium and Funko. He knows how to make a hit!

Drake Coker is the CEO of Nashville Record Pressing. In other words, he runs a high-volume vinyl record pressing facility that is tantamount to Willy Wonka's factory for vinyl heads. It is beyond cool and smooth running! Drake is also one of the smartest people to ever grace this platform, but you'd never know it because he is so humble.

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.