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Elizabeth Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), a membership association of more than 800,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP licenses the public performance of its members' music, collects license fees, tracks performances and distributes to its members royalties based on their performances. Under her leadership, ASCAP has achieved record-breaking financial results, topping $1 billion in revenue for two consecutive years and driving record-high distributions of royalties to ASCAP songwriters, composers and music publishers.

Gerdes has served as a member of our board since 2007. He previously served as a director of CBOT since 2005.Gerdes has served as CEO of Pursuant Health (formerly SoloHealth), a private health-care company in Atlanta, since February 2014 and as its Executive Chairman of the Board since November 2013. He was initially appointed to the Board in 2007 and as the Chairman in 2012. He has also served as a general partner of Sand Hill Financial Company, a venture capital partnership, since 1983.Gerdes is also a general partner of Gerdes Huff Investments.Gerdes is a major shareholder and President of Friesland Farms, LLC. Gerdes formerly served as Chairman and CEO of Transcend Services, concluding with the sale of that company in April 2012 and as a director of Access Plans, Inc., from 2001 until its sale in June, 2012.Gerdes is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and serves as trustee for Monmouth College.

Stephen F. Cooper is Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group, which he joined in 2011 upon the company’s acquisition by Access Industries. He is a member of the Supervisory Board for LyondellBasell Industries N.V., one of the world’s largest olefins, polyolefins, chemicals and refining companies. Steve is an advisor at Zolfo Cooper, a leading financial advisory and interim management firm, of which he was a co-founder and former Chairman. Steve is also Managing Partner of Cooper Investment Partners, a private equity firm. He has more than 30 years of experience as a financial advisor, and has served as chairman or chief executive officer of various businesses, including Vice Chairman and member of the office of Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiian Telcom. Steve received a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.

Pace-O Beats is a CEO at STANDARD MANAGEMENT GROUP LTD and Music Producer at Producer/Sound Engineer and is based in Greater Philadelphia Area. He attended Temple University between 2008 and 2011.

S. Joe Bhatia is a President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO at ANSI - American National Standards Institute and is based in President and Chief Executive Officer Ceo.

Price, an Ad Age Media Maven in 2011, has steered one of the nation’s largest independent media agencies through an unprecedented level of change and growth. His first 10+ years in leading new and emerging media at Empower set a foundation for the last 10+ years as CEO where we have achieved record-breaking revenue growth YOY, created new capabilities with the addition of Digital, Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Creative while earning prestigious industry titles including MediaPost’s Media Agency of the Year and most recently Ad Age’s Agency A-List Standout - the first Cincinnati-based agency to ever receive this national recognition. But Price is more than just a media visionary. He’s an engineer of trust - responsible for spearheading the industry’s first fully transparent programmatic buying solution, ClearTrade® He is also very active in his community, both serving as a Board member and mentor with the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. He is also on the Board of Trustees for ArtsWave, Board of Directors for REDI Cincinnati, sits on the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Board and is the past Board President for Starfire Council.