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Robert B. Morrison – Chairman
Robert Morrison was appointed to the Board of Directors on July 9, 2007, and became Chairman of the Board on November 10, 2010. Mr. Morrison serves on the Compensation Committee and Governance Committee. Mr. Morrison is co-founder of Quadrant Arts Education Research, one of the nation’s leading research and market intelligence organizations focusing on music and arts education. Quadrant serves both the commercial and governmental sectors and has pioneered ground-breaking research on the status and condition of arts education in the United States. Prior to founding Quadrant, Mr. Morrison was the founder and chairman emeritus of Music for All (MFA), a not-for-profit educational organization whose mission is expand access to music and arts education. Mr. Morrison also served as the CEO of the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, the national non-profit organization committed to restoring music education in America’s public schools. Mr. Morrison has also served as director of market development for NAMM, the international music products association, was an executive director of the American Music Conference (AMC), where he directed AMC’s media efforts, and was a senior executive with the Pearl Corporation. Mr. Morrison has received an honorary doctorate degree from the State University of New York, the Mr. Holland’s Opus Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science, and the Life Achievement Award from the Music Distributors Association. Mr. Morrison has earned both an Emmy and Peabody Award for his work on behalf of music education. Mr. Morrison served as a member of the board of trustees for the Berklee College of Music in Boston and currently serves on several national music and arts education policy boards.
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Karen van Lith – President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Karen van Lith (formerly Karen Beckwith) was appointed MakeMusic president, CEO, and director effective June 13, 2011. Ms. van Lith joined MakeMusic with more than twenty years of experience leading companies to profitable growth. Most recently Ms. van Lith ran her own Internet-marketing services company while providing interim CEO leadership to companies in start-up, high-growth, and crisis phases. From 2000 through 2007, she was CEO and president of Gelco Information Network, a SaaS company serving multinational companies around the world. Prior to that she was president of Ceridian Canada and senior vice president of business development at Ceridian Corporation. Ms. van Lith currently serves as a corporate director of Associated Banc-Corp and of Xata Corp., as well as on the board of Food for Hungry Minds. Ms. van Lith has an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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Trevor D’Souza
Trevor D’Souza joined the Board March 2, 2010, in connection with an agreement dated March 2, 2010 between MakeMusic and LaunchEquity, relating to MakeMusic’s Board composition and certain other matters (the “LaunchEquity Agreement”). Mr. D’Souza serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Governance Committee. Mr. D’Souza is a managing director of Great Lakes Ventures, LLC. In addition, since 2000, Mr. D’Souza has served as managing director of Mason Wells, where he is responsible for managing the venture investment activities of the firm. Through his role with Mason Wells, Mr. D’Souza has served as a director of a number of companies, including: Teramedica, Inc. (chairman, 2001-present), Zystor Therapeutics, Inc. (2004-2010), Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2001-present), OpGen, Inc. (2002-2009), NameProtect, Inc. (chairman, 2001-2007), Mezzia, Inc. (2001-2006), and Dedicated Computing (2007-2009). Prior to joining Mason Wells, Mr. D’Souza served as the president and CEO of Pharmasoft North America, Inc. from 1997 to 1999, and as a program manager for Booz-Allen & Hamilton from 1994 to 1997. Mr. D’Souza earned an MBA from George Washington University, and a B.S. in Engineering from the Catholic University of America.
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Keith A. Fenhaus
Keith Fenhaus was elected as a director on March 15, 2007. Mr. Fenhaus has served as the Audit Committee Chairman since the date of his appointment and has served as a member of the Compensation Committee since November 2010. In 2010, Mr. Fenhaus was promoted to president of Hallmark Business Connections which includes all the business-to-business entities of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Prior to 2010, Mr. Fenhaus was president of Hallmark Insights, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, specializing in business incentive solutions. Mr. Fenhaus has previously served Hallmark Insights, where he has been employed since 1992, as executive vice president and CFO. Prior to joining Hallmark Insights, Mr. Fenhaus was the CFO of Sheffert & Wein. His previous positions included senior vice president, finance, Community Financial Services at First Bank (now US Bank), and vice president and controller at Norwest Mortgage (now Wells Fargo Home Mortgage). Mr. Fenhaus has a BBA from the University of Wisconsin.
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Graham Richmond
Graham Richmond was elected to the Board of Directors on July 25, 2006. Mr. Richmond is chairman of the Governance Committee and is currently a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Richmond is the CEO and co-founder of Clear Admit, LLC, an educational counseling company focused on management education. Prior to launching Clear Admit at the end of 2001, Mr. Richmond worked as an admissions counselor and technology consultant for the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Richmond’s career also includes a position as vice president of marketing and operations at MCS Multi-App, an educational technology company that served the leading law and business schools with software applications in the 1990s. Beyond his professional career, Mr. Richmond has pursued his passion for music as a classical and jazz flautist and singer/songwriter/guitarist, and is a member of the board of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants, a not-for-profit association that assists in setting industry standards for graduate admissions consultants. He holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Swarthmore College and an MBA in entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Michael Skinner
Michael Skinner was appointed to the Board of Directors on November 20, 2006, and is chairman of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Skinner is a summa cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music with a bachelor’s degree in music education. He received his master’s degree in music composition from the University of Miami. Mr. Skinner has worked as a composer, arranger, clinician, and performer, as well as a music educator, having taught elementary through high school music. In 1986, Mr. Skinner became the national clinician for Vandoren and a Yamaha performing artist. He later became marketing manager for J. D’Addario & Co., marketing Vandoren products as well as J. D’Addario education products. From 1991-2001, Mr. Skinner served as the marketing manager for education products for the Band & Orchestral Division, Yamaha Corporation of America. During his tenure at Yamaha Mr. Skinner managed the technology-driven education system called Music In Education™, a software- and hardware-based keyboard system integrating curriculum and assessment into a keyboard lab. In July 2001, he returned to J. D’Addario & Co. as director of marketing for band and orchestra products. In July 2004, Mr. Skinner formed DANSR and became the sole U.S. importer of Vandoren Products. Today, he remains the president of DANSR. In January 2011, Mr. Skinner was appointed to the board of NAMM, a trade association for the global music products industry, for a term ending in 2014.