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The Smartest People In The Room^®

Richard Leach and Steve Weatherby

Richard Leach and Steve Weatherby

60

min.

read

Richard Leach is the Managing Director at Curve Royalty Systems, a best-in-class royalty processing platform built for the scale and demands of the music industry in the digital age. Previously he spent 15 years working in digital distribution and sales at industry leading firms such as IODA, Sony Red and WMG.

Steve Weatherby is the founder and owner of The Best Music Company, a boutique firm focused on rights management, publishing administration and music distribution tailored to the independent music sector. Previously he's held senior executive level roles in major labels (Universal, Warner), InGrooves, and has also started and successfully sold a company to UMG. He knows how to build very successful businesses in several different lanes of the music industry.

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

Global Scale.
Boutique Feel.

We are in the markets that matter, but we show up like we’re part of your team. Hands-on, high-touch, and built around your goals.

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