Concord Music Group CEO and leadership

Bob Valentine is a CFO at Concord Music and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked as Director of Business Development at FOX TELEVISION STATIONS INC. and Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Bob studied at UCLA Anderson School of Management between 1997 and 1999 and University of Notre Dame.

I have a track record of cultivating change to increase profitability, foster growth and implement sustainability. I have developed international skills in music business, fintech, SaaS, governance, distribution, label management, branding, market penetration and technology.

I have passion for revenue growth, strategy development, deal-making, big data and leadership. My legal, financial & operations background make me an excellent operator for a wide variety of business units.

Kent Hoskins is a Secretary at Boosey & Hawkes, Global Head:Finance at Imagem Holding Corp., and Global Head of Finance at Imagem Music Group and is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. He has worked as Audit Senior at PwC, Boosey & Hawkes Group Finance Director at Rodgers & Hammerstein, and CFO:UK at Imagem Holding Corp.. Kent works or has worked at University of Illinois at Chicago. He attended University of Canterbury between 1994 and 1996.

Ruth Martinez is a Chief People Officer at Concord Music and is based in Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. She studied at WELLESLEY COLLEGE and UCLA Extension.

Sean is a theatre and music executive, producer, writer, composer, orchestrator, and conductor. He is President of Concord Theatricals, providing theatrical licensing, music publishing, cast recording, and first-class production services to theatre writers and producers. For the past two year, he has been the founding worldwide CEO of The Musical Company, a joint venture between Concord Music and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group. Prior to that, he was SVP of Theatre and Catalog Development for Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, where he was the music administrator for most of the songwriters on Broadway, as well as the majority of the Great American Songbook. In addition, he oversaw WCM's theatrical producing & licensing, print/digital sheet music and orchestral rental. He has been a producer on 24 cast albums, 10 of which were nominated for Grammy Awards, including the Grammy-winning, Platinum-selling, chart-topping \'Hamilton.\' His own work has been performed in New York, at regional theatres around the country, and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Sean has had the privilege of working with Stephen Sondheim for 20 years on many shows and recordings. He has worked on dozens of new musicals and has produced over 100 shows, concerts, workshops, and readings for major Broadway and off-Broadway companies. He was General Manager and Director of Music and Marketing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide and was a music editor for MTI and R&H. Sean was an arts journalist and editor for 13 years, with over 200 articles published in The Sondheim Review, Show Music, Playbill, and the former BroadwayOnline.com. B.A. Boston College; MFA NYU-Tisch; MFA Brooklyn College.. Faculty, NYU-Tisch since 2002. Member: The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and AFM Local 802. Serves on the board of NARAS NY Chapter, the Music Publishers Association, the ASCAP Symphonic & Concert Committee, and the Dramatists Guild's Music & Copyright Committees.

I’m a multiple card-carrying member of the music industry. The current President of KIDZ BOP, now part of Concord, I was one of the founders of KIDZ BOP at Razor & Tie where I championed a number of diversified revenue streams and operating profit margin gains that positioned us as one of the largest independent music labels in North America, as well as a full-service music entity. My ability to build on a strong base of music/IP industry knowledge and relationships, embrace the future of the industry, and make businesses profitable and more valuable to investors in under two years also led to my board service at A2IM, SoundExchange, and the Worldwide Independent Network.

“I ORCHESTRATE AND INVEST IN CREATIVE BUSINESS COMBINATIONS”

I’m energized by putting together creative, directionally right business combinations, then backing them with people and processes that will deliver. KIDZ BOP became the #1 kids’ music brand in the US with more than 20M albums sold and 3B streams because we didn’t treat it like a kid’s business and instead infused it with A-level partnerships and artist treatment and high-quality production of music, video, and live events. We built Razor & Tie by pursuing unexpected niches like a music publishing company, hard rock, early pop-music in Nashville, a gospel video workout collection, and direct response TV marketing.

“I’M AN INCREMENTALIST & A SIMPLIFIER, NOT A TYPICAL VISIONARY”

Remember the ad, “We don’t make things, we make things better?” That’s me. I was an early employee of Razor & Tie who brought financial and operational discipline to its creative founders. I started by auditing what we were doing and putting the basics in place to ensure we survived and thrived in a rapidly evolving market. In an industry that’s often about more, I believe in getting to the bare essentials when presenting content. When we were preparing to sell Razor & Tie, I reduced a spreadsheet with 50 tabs to six numbers on a page.