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Gerd Leonhard, United States of America

Bio:
Gerd Leonhard (40) is the Founder, President and CEO of LicenseMusic.com, a leading web-based music company providing high quality repertoire to professionals working in the film, television, advertising, interactive and audio-visual industries worldwide. LicenseMusic.com enables its customers to instantly search, preview, license and download from over 50,000 pre-cleared music tracks. LM's catalog includes music from over 200 leading record labels, music publishers and production music libraries such as Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Milan Records, Peer Music, Dreamworks Music Publishing, Knitmedia, Sony ATV, Harmonia Mundi and Chesky Records. Additionally, LicenseMusic.com features music from hundreds of unsigned artists and composers. Through its network of strategic partners (e.g., BMI, Getty Images, Shockwave.com, Digidesign, Avid, Soundelux Entertainment Group, Creative Planet and eCreativeSearch), LicenseMusic.com represents the easiest and most efficient way to license music currently available on the Internet.

Prior to founding LicenseMusic.com, Gerd owned and operated Music Workz, an event production and music consulting company in Germany, working with MTV / VH-1, MIDEM, London Music Week, Canadian Music Week, MY-CD, Audiosoft, MCY Music and various directorates of the European Commission in Brussels, Germany. Gerd also served as Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed European talent-search event, EuroPopDays for 2 years. Prior to EuroPopDays, he was Co-Director of Europe's first Contemporary Music University and served as an expert advisor to the European Commission on employment and socio-economic issues in the arts. In 1987, Gerd earned a diploma in Performance from Boston's Berklee College of Music after winning Berklee's prestigious Quincy Jones Award for arranging and composing, which granted him a full scholarship.

An acclaimed guitarist, composer, record producer, and music business entrepreneur with extensive know-how and hands-on expertise in internet music ventures, digital music copyright issues, and network economy-focused business models, Gerd is considered a visionary in defining the business perspectives of a new, web-based music economy. A sought-after panelist and moderator at conventions, educational institutions, trade shows and conferences, Mr. Leonhard has spoken at dozens of events including Webnoize, MIDEM, MILIA, MB-5, Streaming Media Europe, the Indie Music Forum, DDMI / Digital Distribution of Music Conference, and has lectured at leading schools around the globe including UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, City University London, Berklee College of Music, and the University of Miami.