The Smartest People In The Room^®

Jeremy Sirota and Lawrence Peryer

Jeremy Sirota is CEO of Merlin, one of the largest and most important global organizations working on behalf of independent labels, distributors, and other rights holders. He has been recognized eleven times by Billboard on the Power 100 List, Power List, International Power Player, and Indie Power Player. And that's just one in a long list of examples of his impact on the industry.

Lawrence Peryer is a veritable Swiss Army knife of skills and experiences throughout the music industry. He's held executive roles in major labels (Warner), platforms (Amazon), ticketing (Lyte), live concerts (Live Nation). He's seen a lot, learned a lot and will share a lot of that accumulated wisdom on this show.

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.