Richard Conlon
As Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, Richard Conlon heads up BMI’s marketing, advertising, media relations, and planning efforts, along with its New Media and Strategic Development Group, which manages the development of revenue streams for BMI’s songwriters and music publishers in the digital world across all new media applications. The group also spearheads analysis, planning and strategic development for BMI’s future directions in the media and entertainment worlds. Under his direction, BMI’s New Media group has created agreements for a wide variety of leading digital media properties including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, MP3.com, Napster, Rhapsody and others. In addition, the team has negotiated royalty agreements with leading mobile entertainment providers ranging from carriers to aggregators for mobile TV, ringbacks and other entertainment and information services delivered to cell phones. An executive with BMI for over 15 years, Conlon holds a Masters Degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California and B.A. in English from Boston College.
