Steve Weatherby

With over 25 years of music industry experience, Steve Weatherby has held executive positions at some of the biggest major and independent music companies including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, BMG Music Publishing and DEL Records, as well as the business management firms Gudvi, Sussman & Oppenheim and Gelfand, Rennart & Feldman. In 2012, Steve left the corporate music space and started his own independent third-party music administration company called Sovereign Music, which he later sold to the Universal Music Group in 2016. Steve’s experience spans many different responsibilities including business development, global music publishing, music distribution, downstream artist royalty accounting, mechanical rights, master performance rights and synchronization. Steve is a hands-on leader who gently steers the creatively inclined through big business processes. His sound judgment and insight has established him to be a sought-after music industry advisor.