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This year, MUSEXPO will bestow its “International Music Person of the Year” award to Harvey Goldsmith, Founder, Harvey Goldsmith Presents, the globally respected promoter who has helped raise millions of dollars for essential causes such as Live Aid, Live Earth, The Prince’s Trust, Teenage Cancer Trust and many others. He has also has produced, managed and promoted shows with most of the world’s major artists, and other successful acts including Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Shania Twain, U2, Coldplay, Eric Clapton, Queen, Black Eyed Peas, Elton John, Diana Ross, Pink Floyd, Sting and many others. In 2007, Goldsmith promoted a reunion concert for the surviving members of Led Zeppelin in memory of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegün. The award recognizes the extraordinary contribution Goldsmith has made to humanity with the power of music, as determined by A&R Worldwide, MUSEXPO 2010 and the international music and media community.

Speakers at Musexpo 2010 will include some of the world’s top music, media and technology executives such as: Fred Goldring – Partner, Goldring, Hertz and Lichtenstein (Board Member for President Barack Obama’s Committee on Arts & Humanities); Jim Urie – President & CEO, Universal Music Group Distribution; George Ergatoudis – Head of Music, BBC Radio 1; Steve Schnur – Worldwide Head of Music & Marketing, EA Games; Troy Carter – Founder, Atom Factory Inc. (Worldwide Manager Lady Gaga); Nic Harcourt - DJ KCRW Santa Monica (Editor, LA Magazine/Los Angeles Times); Ron Fair – President/CEO, Geffen Records; Craig Kallman – Chairman/CEO, Atlantic Records Group; Daniel Glass – President, Glassnote Records; David Massey – President, Mercury/Island ; Jason Flom – President, Lava/Universal; Korda Marshall – President, Infectious Records (UK & Europe); Perez Hilton; Nick Gatfield – President New Music, EMI Records (N. America, UK & Ireland) and Alex Patsavas – Founder, Chop Shop Music Supervision; Jonathan Shalit – Founder, Shalitglobal (worldwide manager of N-Dubz); Jeff Jampol – President, JAM, Inc., (The Doors); Rob McDermott – Partner, The Collective (worldwide manager of Linkin Park); Robert Reynolds – Partner, Callister-Reynolds (worldwide manager of The Killers); Sarah Stennett – Partner, Stennett & Spraggon Solicitors (Ellie Goulding, Sugababes); Ted Chung – Chairman, Cashmere Agency & President, Doggy Style Records (Snoop Dogg); Big Jon Platt – President of North; British Consul General of Los Angeles Dame Barbara; Martin Kierszenbaum - Chairman of Cherrytree Records, President of A&R, Pop & Rock, Interscope Records & President of International Operations for Interscope Geffen A&M; Kathy Spanberger – President, Anglo-American Region, Peermusic (US, Canada, UK & Australia); Kenny MacPherson – President & Sr. Executive, Chrysalis Music Group, N. America; Thomas Scherer – International Repertoire, BMG Rights Management, GmbH; David Taylor – Music Supervisor, TBWA/Media Arts Lab; Ian Rogers – CEO, TopSpin; John Kirkpatrick – Sr. Vice President & Chief Music Officer, Hot Topic; Ruth McCartney - CEO/Co-Founder, McCartney Multimedia, Inc. American Creative, EMI Music Publishing; John Rudolph – CEO, Bug/Windswept; Ron Spaulding – President, Fontana Distribution; Kevin Wall – Founder/CEO, Control Room & Live Earth; Jason Bentley – Music Director & Host “Morning Becomes Eclectic” KCRW Los Angeles; Leslie Fram – Program Director, WRXP New York City; Mike O’Neill – Sr. Vice President, Media Licensing, BMI; Richard Kingsmill – Music Director, Triple J Radio (Australia); Richard K. Sussman – Vice President, Digital Entertainment, The Nielsen Company; Ted Cohen – Managing Partner, TAG Strategic; Grant Dexter – President/CEO, MapleCore (Canada); Jay Cooper – Attorney & Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig; Ralph Simon – CEO, The Mobilium International Advisory Group and Chairman Emeritus & Founder of the Mobile Ent’t Forum – Americas (UK); David Glick, founder Edge (UK), Vince Bannon - VP Ent’t Partnerships & Development, Gettyimages; Jimmy Steal – VP Programming, Emmis Radio (Power 106 LA & Hot 97 NYC); Greg Lee – President/CEO, Imagine Nation; Joe Fleischer – Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for BigChampagne LLC; Michael Chugg – Founder, Chugg Entertainment (Australia); Paul Menes – Special Counsel, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, LLC; Vijay Nair – Co-Founder, Only Much Louder (India); Alicen Catron Schneider – VP Music Creative Services, NBC Universal TV; Steve Knill – President, The Radiate Group (Omnicom); Ellen Healy – Director Int’l Marketing, Pepsi Co.; Julie Alonso – Engagement Marketing & PR, Gap; Kelly Doss – Sr. Director Bourbons & Whiskeys, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc.; David Courtier-Dutton – CEO, Slicethepie and many others.

The full list of participants is available at www.musexpo.net.