Richard Conlon
Richard Conlon is Vice President, New Media & Strategic Development for BMI, headquartered in New York, directing a team that manages the development of revenue streams in the digital world across all new media applications. The New Media & Strategic Development Group also spearheads analysis, planning and strategic development for BMI’s future directions in the media and entertainment fields in the U.S. and around the world.
Conlon is responsible for managing BMI’s digital interests in the U.S. and around the world. 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. Conlon’s team also created the first music industry online licensing utility, the Digital Licensing Center, offering totally electronic click-through copyright licensing agreements.
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.
