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NMPA + Billboard’s Annual Music Investor Dinner 2025: Photos
NMPA + Billboard's Music Investor Dinner 2025: See photos from the event.
After brief welcome remarks from NMPA president and CEO David Israelite and Billboard editorial director Hannah Karp, the guests sat down to eat and talk. Among them were investors (Peter Picado-Curtis from Shamrock Capital Advisors), investment bankers (David Dunn of Shot Tower Capital and Aaron Seigel and Jenny Kim from Goldman Sachs), providers of financing (Charles Johnson from Truist Securities) and publishing companies that could be in the market for assets (Josh Gruss from Round Hill, Golnar Khosrowshahi from Reservoir, Mary Megan Peer from Peermusic and more). If, as has been reported, the major labels are in negotiations with Suno and Udio to settle their lawsuits, what would a deal mean for the other side of the music business – revenue, certainly, but split under what circumstances.
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