The Smartest People In The Room^®

Jorge Brea and Lloyd Starr

Jorge Brea is the founder and CEO of Symphonic Distribution, which helps creators get their music and video to partners such as Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Pandora, TikTok, Beatport and more. He started this very successful company with his own money, out of his parent's house and today it supports creators in more than 120 countries around the world.

Lloyd Starr is the COO of Discogs, a music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed fans from all over the world. A true renaissance man in terms of working for years in both the digital and physical sides of the business, Lloyd has held senior executive roles with such diverse companies as Beatport, Native Instruments, and Vinyl Me, Please.

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.