3Q

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Zach:

Zach Siegal-Eisman is a digital marketing leader with roots in social media and digital activations dating back to high school. While starting, he elevated the social media presence of numerous brands and entertainers, including working with the Syracuse University women's basketball and tennis teams and developing his music discovery site focused on emerging artists.
In 2017, Zach's career took off when he joined Artist Network Management, starting as a Junior Manager for Dirty Heads, Sublime with Rome, and Rome Ramirez as a day-to-day manager for a developing country artist. Zach honed his passion for marketing strategy, spearheading Artist Network Management's recording and marketing budgets in their JV label, Five Music Inc., with The Orchard, eventually leading him to a role as Account Manager at the social media agency Crowd Surf in 2019.
At Crowd Surf, Zach's leadership shone, quickly earning him promotions to Senior Account Manager and, later, VP of Marketing. He spearheaded 40+ projects, including work for Nickelback, John Fogerty, Jeff Dunham, Warner Chappell Production Music, UMG Catalog, Classic Motown, The Temptations, Eric Clapton, Steve Miller Band, Neil Diamond, Iron Maiden, and more.
Earlier this year, Zach launched Amplify Legacy, a marketing consultancy focused on audience growth and digital partnerships. His work with clients like Immediate Family, Songfluencer, Exploration, and others, combined with his business development role at Songfluencer, led him to his most recent position as VP of Digital & Viral Marketing at Big Loud Rock. There, he oversaw artist growth and boosting the digital presence of both upcoming and catalog record releases while focusing on audience engagement and retention for the Big Loud Rock roster which includes HARDY, Jagwar Twin, and more.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Jamie:

Jamie Dee Hart is a music rights management advocate who’s passionate about giving back and educating creators at all levels of their career. She’s the Founder of Hart & Songs, an artist and rights management firm ensuring independent artists, producers, and songwriters properly register songs and effectively collect their royalties. Hart & Songs clients include chart-topping producers & songwriters behind hits such as “Tempo” with Lizzo and Missy Elliott, BLACKSWAN’s “Karma”, “Champagne and Pools” featuring Blackbear, “No Interruption” by Hoodie Allen, and more. 

Jamie also manages Ryan Nealon, an LA-based pop singer-songwriter with a growing audience across TikTok and Instagram from several viral moments, as well as chill electronic producer Koresma who has over 150 million streams across all DSPs. Her past projects have encompassed a broad range of activities, from producing a live concert at Madison Square Garden for a Latin GRAMMY-nominated album to providing social media strategy guidance to breakout Clubhouse star Axel Mansoor during the app's explosive growth which was featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Jamie also received her Masters Degree in Music Entrepreneurial Studies from Azusa Pacific University and continually helps foster the next generation of young executives.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Sydney:

Sydney Wiklund is a rising partnerships executive at the intersection of music, technology, and creativity. Currently, she runs Creator Partnerships at Genies – an avatar tech company equipping IP partners, developers, and creators with tools to launch and co-create immersive, intelligent digital experiences. Genies has worked with creators like Paris Hilton, J Balvin, and Migos and partners like Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group as well as the player's associations for the NBA, NFL and MLB.

Prior to Genies, Sydney spearheaded label relations and partnerships at The Nations – the largest independent music curation network on YouTube amassing more than 50 million subscribers and 19 billion views. She also was an artist manager for some of the top bass artists in electronic music including NGHTMRE, SLANDER, JOYRYDE, among others. Before this, Sydney held stints at both Buchwald and Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Sydney's passions for mental health and giving back have led her to take on multiple projects including serving as an executive committee member on the City of Hope’s “Future of Hope” Board. Additionally, she produces a music festival, Mycelium, which brings together 300+ awesome humans who prioritize wellness, deep connection, and good music each June.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Jeff:

Jeff started his career at Rick Rubin’s American Recordings in 1996.  Later that year, he moved to Revolution Records, a rebrand of Giant Records, Irving Azoff’s since-shuttered Warner-distributed label. In 1997, he began a seven-year A&R stint at Dreamworks Records. After the company was sold by Geffen to Interscope he worked as part of the IGA team. Over the next eight years, he worked with Wolfmother, TV On The Radio, Major Lazer, and The All-American Rejects. In his current role, he’s signed and worked with critically acclaimed artists such as Mac Miller, Rufus Du Sol, Brandy Clark, Billy Strings, Nessa Barrett, Benson Boone and plenty of others.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Bill:

Bill Werde is director of the top-ranked Bandier music industry program in the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, and creator of Full Rate No Cap, the influential weekly email of music industry analysis (https://www.fullratenocap.com). As the former editorial director of Billboard, Werde built a global network of music industry relationships, and a deep understanding of industry trends and mass audience development and engagement across platforms. Now he teaches the next generation of music industry leaders at Bandier, while focusing his consulting work on emerging tech and emerging markets.

For nearly a decade ending in 2014, Werde oversaw all content efforts at Billboard, leading its conversion from a print B2B magazine to a digital-first, global consumer brand. Under Bill’s leadership, Billboard expanded its international presence with launches in South Korea, Japan, Russia and Brazil, revived the now-top-rated Billboard Music Awards show in partnership with ABC, tripled Billboard.com’s traffic, and grew the brand's social footprint from zero to millions of followers. Werde also created Billboard's first focused video efforts, growing the program to partnership status with YouTube.

Today Werde advises and consults top music and media companies on everything from business development to content, communications and media strategy. Werde has led curriculum, student development and experience, and the Bandier brand since Fall of 2017. He is a frequent guest expert on music and the music business for top news and media outlets. Werde lives in Syracuse with his wife, two sons, a reclusive cat and his troublesome beagle, Stanley.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Jeff:

Waxmgmt founder Jeff Bowers has over 20 years of experience breaking down barriers to forge new paths for music artists. Bowers got his start on the major label circuit, working in A&R and catalog management for Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic Records, and Rhino Records. There, he managed creative, marketing, product and licensing strategy for seminal catalogs such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis, and new alternative artists like Paramore and Portugal. The Man while helping drive the vinyl revival. After a brief stint managing licensing strategy for crowdfunding platform Pledge Music, Bowers began his career in artist management, founding Waxmgmt in 2015. In collaboration with Waxmgmt CEO and fellow manager Janis Shen, Bowers has struck unprecedented equitable deal structures that foster long-term success for artists. Bowers has a knack for identifying trends before they pop, having been an early adopter of TikTok as a music discovery tool. Bowers represents cross-genre artists while specializing in the Soundcloud community, working with Freddie Dredd, 1nonly, LLusion, and more.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Jess:

Jess Kenney has been a driving force in the music industry for 15 years, pioneering innovative solutions and creative problem-solving for artists and labels. As a proven leader, Jess built the streaming departments at both Verve Label Group and SoundCloud's Roster, fostering strong DSP and lifestyle account relationships over the last decade and building a rolodex of 450+ contacts. She specializes in commercial release strategy and is an advocate for true artist development and long-term artist career growth.

Her development and commercial release visions helped play a role in Grammy wins for Jon Batiste (Album of the Year), Samara Joy (Best New Artist), and Madison Cunningham (Best American Roots Performance). Her expertise also helped debut artist Laila! maximize her mega-viral success across two tracks (“Not My Problem” and “Like That”) in 2024, which combined achieved #1 on TikTok, YouTube, YouTube Shorts, #25 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs Chart, multiple impacts across global Spotify Viral charts, and over 100M global streams.Beyond artist development, Jess's ingenuity led to the creation of the industry-wide World Sleep Day campaign, which elevated Classical music consumption worldwide. She now functions as Founder & Chief Strategist at her independent consulting firm, Jess Kenney Music Growth Consulting, LLC, creating growth opportunities and strategies for an exclusive cohort of developing and established music clients.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Mogul:

Founded by the former Heads of Creator at SoundCloud, Mogul is an all in one business management app for musicians & their teams. Our Rocket Money-esque platform allows one to connect the sources that generate an artist's royalties, give them a total picture of their business, and then show where revenue is slipping through the cracks across all rights types. Like an always on audit.Mogul is tracking over $150MM in royalties across some amazing artists and teams.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Freddie:

Freddie is currently the Vice President of Digital Marketing and Strategy at Roc Nation and previously worked at 300/Elektra Entertainment. At 300/Elektra, he worked on clients such as Young Thug, Gunna, Maria Becerra, Waterparks, $NOT, Barns Courtney, and Highly Suspect on their digital and social media strategy on album, tour, brand music video, and marketing campaigns.

Before 300/Elektra, Freddie worked at Career Artist Management/Full Stop with artists such as Maroon 5, Big Boi and Chromeo, and previously with Robin Thicke, Iggy Azalea, Anitta, Miguel, Breaking Benjamin, A$AP Rocky, Juicy J, Breaking Benjamin, Gavin Degraw, Barenaked Ladies and more. His time there included marketing 9 top 10 Billboard albums, including #1 records for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", Breaking Benjamin's "Dark Before Dawn" and Maroon 5's "V" and two #1 songs with "Blurred Lines" and "Girls Like You". Much of his work has included social media strategy, digital marketing campaigns, website creation/maintenance, finding new and exciting brands to partner up with and much more.

Additionally, he helped with the execution of large branded events such as Miguel's #WildHeartMotel and Big Gram's LA Pop Up Shop. He's also worked with brands: Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, VitaCoco, RED, Sonos, Samsung, Apple, The OSCARS, GRAMMYS and many more.

No matter where you are in your career, you’ll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more.

About Richard:

President and CEO for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), Dr. Richard James Burgess MBE has produced, recorded, and performed on many gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums. He was previously head of business at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings where he produced Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology, chronicling the history of jazz and The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. His career path includes studio musician, touring musician, recording artist, producer, manager, and label owner. He is known for his pioneering work with synthesizers, computers, sampling, EDM, New Romantics, early house music, as the inventor of the SDSV drum synthesizer and for coining the music genre terms EDM and New Romantic. His latest books are, The Art of Music Production: The Theory and Practice, 4th Edition and The History of Music Production (Oxford University Press). Burgess has been listed multiple times as a Power Player and an Independent Power Player by Billboard and has received awards from Music Week, the British Arts Council, the Greater London Arts Association, the Park Lane Group, and the British Council for Education. He was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honors list 2022.