#InspiredByWomen 2022

“To commemorate #WomensHistoryMonth, we are showcasing the exceptionally motivating women in the music, film, and marketing industries, whose contributions are propelling the industries forward.”

Stephanie Aristakesian

Working alongside Jay Moss, Aristakesian worked with artists ODESZA, Louis The Child, TroyBoi, EVAN GIAA and Elderbrook; she also worked alongside other Wasserman agents on artists including Kenny Beats, Bea Miller, Omar Apollo, Two Feet and Normani.

Dounia

​​Flygrl, divine embodiment, singer, writer, visual artist and music producer from Casablanca, Morocco + Queens, NYC.

Kathleen Wathen

Kathleen is the COO at The Revels Group, the Staff manager for G-Eazy, and an executive at Red Stairway Records. By utilizing her background in accounting, consulting, management and tech, Kathleen has helped grow multiple companies over the course of her career. Kathleen's specialization in interpersonal communication and organizational structure continuously prove her to be a unique and impactful asset across various industries.

Neelam Thadhani

The ATL-bred music manager first met Jack Harlow in 2018 & in 2020, she joined Harlow’s management team alongside Chris Thomas. Less than a year later, Harlow and Thadhani both landed their first #1 record together with his and Lil Nas X’s collaborative single “INDUSTRY BABY.”
Thadhani also helped produce music videos such as “THRU THE NIGHT” and “Tyler Herro” and put together television performances for the VMAs, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmell, NPR’s Tiny Desk, and SNL.

Anastasia Walker

Anastasia Walker is an LA & NY-based fashion stylist and costume designer, who has worked with a wide array of celebrity clientele, such as G-Eazy, Courtney Love, LeBron James, Morgan Freeman, Ty Dolla $ign, N.E.R.D, and Sydney Sweeney. Walker has consulted and sourced for Yeezy and Kanye West, collaborated on Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, worked with top fashion publications including Vogue, Interview, W, and Glamour, and styled campaigns for brands such as Adidas, Nordstrom, Call of Duty, and NBA All-Stars.”

Christina Medina

Christina Medina is a talent executive from Los Angeles. While studying at USC, she began her career programming top-ranked radio station, Power 106 and then moved to Emmy-winning ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! for nearly a decade, where she helped book and produce today's most influential musicians. In the summer of 2019, she was approached by Billboard to head their Artist Relations team. She has served as a member of the USC Alumni Association and is a co-founder of L.I.MA. (Latinos In Media & Arts).

Dimplez

Dimplez is a self-proclaimed Digital Architect, and one of the industry's most sought-after Digital Marketers. For over a decade, she has built her career working with artists, agencies, and record labels while creating unique opportunities in the social and experiential space, growing and developing their respective brands and audiences.

Natalie Walsh

Natalie Walsh is an Atlanta born, LA-based A&R and manager at Grass Fed Music - a management company representing producers, songwriters, engineers and artists such as Sabrina Claudio, Mikhail Beltran, Benita, Ellis Tucker and more. Natalie has an outstanding ear in music, sourcing talent, connecting the dots and handling new business and relationships.

Maggie Sellers

Toronto-born LA-based, talent-meets-brand expert, Maggie has spent over a decade helping build some of the most iconic brands like dosist, Electric Feel Entertainment, Faculty World, Futuremood, and Ohza as well as artists across the Electric Feel and 10K Projects roster including iann dior and 24kGOLDN. Early-stage brand investor, advisor, and manager to artist Wario Slim, she has an extraordinary ability to identify talent and brands before they break and help them grow by leveraging each other, pop-culture, entertainment, and PR. Although, one her happiest projects to date was meeting Jamil, Matt and Ben and helping build the RVG brand 2.0.

Julie Greenberg

Julie Greenberg is a Music Agent at one of the leading entertainment and sports agencies Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Greenberg is based in the New York office and represents many of the world’s leading musicians including Tems, Ashe, Koffee, Lianne La Havas, Annie DiRusso, Saucy Santana, Yendry, Lizzy McAlpine, and Revel’s own Harry Nach and Dounia, among others.

Erin Harris

A seasoned marketing professional and community advocate, Erin Harris, is co-founder of PRONGHORN, a stand-alone business established to create a scalable template for diversifying an industry. The initial aim will be to cultivate the next generation of Black entrepreneurs, employees and executive leaders within the spirits industry through sustainable investment, incubation and recruitment. Erin is also currently serving as the Chief Brand Officer of Lobos 1707, an independent tequila & mezcal brand. Having joined the executive, “Wolfpack” in 2021 and will help lead at Lobos 1707 alongside Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Diego Osorio, and Chief Executive Officer, Dia Simms.

Phylicia Fant

Phylicia Fant is a trusted leader, esteemed executive, public relations and marketing magnate & a conduit of culture. She consistently connects artists and entertainers to brands, media, film and TV opportunities, as well as philanthropic causes. For 3 years Fant served as Head of Urban Music at Columbia Records where she architected the introduction of 21st century superstars such as Lil Nas X, The Kid LAROI, Polo G, Lil TJay, and Chloe X Halle. Fant was recently named Amazon Music’s Head of Music Industry Partnerships, a role created to seek out and oversee strategic music partnerships and identify cross-entertainment campaigns.

Angie Randis

iProdigy of Noah "40" Shebib, Angie Randisi got her start in music working at SOTA Studios in Toronto where she worked with many artists from the OVO roster including credits on PARTYNEXTDOOR’s album “Partymobile”. Since then, she’s moved to Atlanta where she is currently working on Lil Baby’s upcoming album, as his go-to engineer.

Leslie Cooper

Music has always been an integral part of Leslie’s life and motivated her childhood love of dance. Music has continued to be a central driving force in her life and has catalyzed her passion for her career. Over her 10+ years in the film & music industry, Leslie’s diverse experience and skill set has served her well working across all verticals including Agencies, Touring, Artist Development, International Marketing, Product Management, and Publicity.

Full Coverage Communications

Full Coverage Communications is a fully integrated entertainment communications + strategy firm. As strategic partners for entertainment’s most influential + exciting storytellers and A-list talent, we employ a comprehensive, thoughtful approach to everything we do. Their client roster includes Alicia Keys, Lorde, Saweetie, Avril Lavigne, and Faith Hill, G Eazy and more.

Kianna Perry

Kiana is a creative professional with 13+ years experience in music marketing, talent/artist relations, artist development, touring, event management, and content. She started at Sony Music working with artists such as MGMT, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, J Cole and more. Now Perry is at Virgin Music, where she’s spearheaded the marketing campaign for Surfaces, who soared to new heights with their global smash hit “Sunday Best.” The triple-platinum-certified single peaked at #9 at Top 40 Pop radio, #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and surpassed 2.8 billion global streams. Additionally, she’s worked on Brittany Howard’s (from Alabama Shakes) ‘Jamie’ album campaign, culminating in seven Grammy nominations, with its lead single “Stay High” winning the 2021 Grammy for Best Rock Song.

Jenn Tolman Hurst

Jenn Tolman Hurst recently joined MDDN as SVP of Talent and Manager working with artists like Poppy, Eyedress, Architects, Chase Atlantic, Good Charlotte, Zakk Cervini, etc. and her entirely female roster from Streamline Talent Group, the company Tolman Hurst founded. She brings her legendary roster with her, with the likes of Rachel Platten, Leah Kate, Kelsy Karter and Casey Baer. Prior to that, Jenn was at Vector management where she managed Avril Lavigne, ZZ Ward, and Transviolet.

Rakiyah Marshall

Long Island, NY native and Founder/CEO Rakiyah Marshall is a graduate of Seton Hall University where she studied broadcasting and interactive media and business administration. Marshall started her career at Republic Records in NYC and later made the move to Nashville to pursue a career working with songwriters. After working at Cornman Music, then at BMG, she founded her own company in 2020, Back Blocks Music. Marshall founded Back Blocks Music with the intent of helping independent entrepreneurs succeed in the music publishing and artist development space. She’s also a member of the Recording Academy and was recently tapped as one of Billboard’s ‘Power Players’ and a ‘40 Under 40’ recipient.

Rhea Pasricha

In her role as Head of A&R - West Coast at Prescription Songs, Rhea Pasticha oversees the LA office A&R staff, scouting and signing new talent, and facilitating creative opportunities for the roster. During her 9 year tenure, Rhea has signed or helped promote the careers of songwriters such as Emily Warren, Lauv, David Pramik, Nate Campany, KBeaZy, and Ammar Malik to name a few. Rhea also manages songwriter Steph Jones.

Carron Joan Mitchell, Esq

Carron is a star attorney with the unique ability to identify and develop talent and has extensive experience representing clients across the entertainment industry, focusing on recording artists, music producers, and songwriters. She advises recording artists across diverse genres, including musicians like Ari Lennox, Cuco, Brent Faiyaz, Freddie Gibbs, Vince Staples, Masego, EarthGang, Raveena, Earl Sweatshirt, and newcomers Tanna Leone and Fana Hues.

Courtne Smith

Courtne Smith is an entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of NewNew; a marketplace for bidding and voting on the decisions in other people’s lives. Investors in NewNew include; Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Shrug Capital, and angel investors from Disney, TikTok, Twitter, Netflix, Google, and Facebook.Prior to founding NewNew, Courtne spent over a decade on Grammy-award-winning artist Drake's management team and she also co-founded Suprize, a contest app, and Tharen, a luxury hair extension brand.

Angela Rogers

Angela has over 16yrs experience as an entertainment lawyer. She has a reputation for being a diligent, meticulous dealmaker. Her primary focus is on contract negotiations. She represents recording artists, producers, songwriters, production companies, music executives, managers, entertainment brands, influencers, literary authors, start-ups and various others in the music, television, literary, and digital fields.

Katie Cruz

Katie is a Miami born and bred social media obsessed guru who serves as the Head of Social for The Revels Group and the CEO & Founder of Cruz Creative, a social media and content strategy agency. With Cruz Creative she’s worked with an array of clients like Bumble, Bev & Coach, to name a few. Formerly, she was at Refinery29 for 2+ years where she handled their Instagram page, while producing & directing IGTV videos and interviewing talent.

Amanda Groves

Amanda is a General Partner at PLUS Capital, a venture capital and advisory firm focused on high profile artists and athletes based in Los Angeles. Amanda joined PLUS from JPMorgan, where she started her career after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a BS in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business. She was also a Division 1 soccer player with the Cal Bears. Outside of the Venice, CA office, Amanda is a member of national non-profit Jumpstart!'s Southern California Advisory Board and serves as a board member for the Axe ALS Foundation.

Kaily Nash

Kaily Nash is a senior artist manager at Roc Nation. Just after joining the company she solidified Ferg on the roster and most recently signed international star Lous and the Yakuza. She also currently sits on the Advisory board of Triller negotiating their artist bookings across departments. Previously leading Last Kings Records for Tyga through multiple platinum hits for three years, she also credits her past time at GreenLight/RedLight and Live Nation with building her strategic music foundation in all lanes of the business.

Milana Lewis & Kristin Graziani

An ex-talent agent and software sales agent partnered up in 2017 to build toward a clearer and more sustainable future for the music industry. Launched in 2015 by Co-Founder and C.E.O. Milana Lewis, its intuitive interface enables clients to divide, disperse, and even donate revenue to various recipients, designating percentages and simplified splits with the utmost clarity. The platform has grown to introduce tools to monitor and recoup expenses in addition to scale advances where artists retain 100% ownership of their masters, collating all of these capabilities into one accessible artist-friendly dashboard. Kristin envisioned and oversees the Stem Direct offering which provides hands on distribution services and strategy for independent artists and labels with fair and flexible terms. The combination of tools and services is powerful, paying out $200 million to over 40,000 creators from digital music earnings.

Ashley Raymond

Ashley Raymond is an entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of DoorHawks, a luxury event Front of House and VIP Relations company. The company manages the entire RSVP and Door Management process for their clients. As VIP experience curators, Ashley and her team make the impossible possible with unmatched hospitality. DoorHawks is a trusted partner for many record labels, digital streaming platforms, entertainment, music, and corporate clients.

Hodo Musa

Hodo Musa was born in Somali and came as a refugee to Sweden. In her mid-twenties she moved to Norway where she studied fashion design, and quickly became one of the most sought after stylists. In 2019 she took the leap to apply for a US visa, and shortly after became the Creative and Fashion Director for mega star Lil Nas X. She has been with him since his debut, and together they are one of most dynamic duos in the industry. Hodo is an amazing storyteller with curious eyes. She often sees possibilities and a new way of looking at things in places others miss. Her multi-cultural background helps her intuitively guide and help other creatives to tell their stories and see their unique abilities. Hodo wants to serve and inspire others to become great.