Dick Wingate

With more than 40 years of experience in the music and interactive industries, Dick Wingate is Principal, DEV Advisors, an entertainment consulting firm that provides expertise to service providers, app developers, content owners and investors. Wingate has been at the intersection of music and technology from its’ beginnings with in-store interactive systems, to the earliest online music download services to the first downloadable mobile streaming applications. He is also a partner in Big House Music Publishing and has been granted lifetime membership in NARAS (the Grammys).

He has served as President, Artist & Entertainment Services for Crowdmix (U.S.), a social network/application enabling people to discover and build relationships via music. In that role, he led the company’s outreach to a broad coalition of music industry stakeholders. Wingate served as President, Media Development & Chief Content Officer for Nellymoser Inc, an early provider of streaming mobile application services, running content, licensing and business development strategy with clients such as Sony, Warner Music, MTV, AT&T, Virgin Mobile & ABC Television. Wingate helped pioneer the digital music business from its infancy as SVP, Content Development at Liquid Audio, Inc, playing an integral role in their 1999 IPO. He was responsible for music licensing, label relations, affiliate management and content marketing and negotiated the first digital distribution catalogue deals with hundreds of record companies including Universal, Warner and EMI Music.

His in-depth experience in the recording industry included positions as SVP Marketing, Arista Records (BMG); SVP A&R PolyGram Records; Director. Talent Acquisition, Epic Records; and Director, Product Management, Columbia Records. He has been integrally involved with the careers of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, Peter Tosh, Eddy Grant, Pink Floyd, Sarah McLachlan and Garland Jeffreys.

Wingate has spoken at industry events including Digital Hollywood, CTIA, SXSW, Billboard Live, CDO Summit, Jupiter Plug-In, CMJ, Midem, Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse, Business Week, the Music Business Association and Canadian Music Week and has been featured in the Sunday NY Times Business section, on the front page of LA Times as well as quoted in the Wall St. Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, the NY Times Magazine and Billboard Magazine.