Board & Team
Impact Data & Events’ board and team consists of entertainment industry, nonprofit, and academic leaders operating at the highest levels of culture and impact intersection to produce palpable and measurable results for our local and global communities.
Advisory Board
Dana Meyerson
Sam Novey
Kevin Patrick
Lawrence Peryer
Hamza Salem
Melanie Shark
Amaechi Uzoigwe
Mike Ward
Steve Ferguson
Kathryn Frazier
Jonathan Gruber
John Harper
Kennita Hickman
Rebecca Kennedy
Aklima Khondoker
Kevin Lyman
Curtis Bergh
Shar Borg
Talia Borodin
John Boyle
Jay Byrd
Lisa Caesar
Joyce Dollinger
Evangeline Elder
Special Advisors
Mike Luba
Patrick Sansone
Emily White
CEO & FOUNDER
Emily White is a longtime entrepreneur and executive in the music industry. She is the Founder of #iVoted, #iVoted Festival, #iVoted Concerts, and a Founding Partner at Collective Entertainment. White is an Amazon #1 best-selling author of How to Build a Sustainable Music Career and Collect All Revenue Streams, hosts the #1 Music Business podcast globally of the same name, and is an in-demand speaker at conferences and universities around the world.
White is a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute. She proudly serves on the boards of SXSW, Well Dunn Foundation, Stand By Me Foundation, is the Chair of + Pool’s Swim Advisory Council, and has additionally served on the boards of Future of Music, The David Lynch Foundation Live in addition to The Grammys’ Education Committee and Pandora’s Artist Advisory Council. White has been on the cover of the concert industry’s trade, Pollstar Magazine, with her name also gracing the cover of Billboard magazine. She was named to Billboard’s 2020 Women in Music Executives of the Year list with her work additionally profiled in Variety, Fast Company, Forbes, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Alternative Press, Brooklyn Vegan, The Fader, Stereogum, Relix, CNN, Vox, The Huffington Post, ESPN, and more.
Bryan calhoun
CMO
An artist advocate, Bryan has spent 30+ years at the nexus of music, business, and technology. He has and continues to provide digital strategy to media companies and A-list musicians. Throughout his career, he has held key positions and consulted labels, distributors, SoundExchange, and several global streaming platforms. He created the Music Business Toolbox, a book and suite of tools used by several music business programs, to empower musicians and aspiring music executives with actionable business guidance.
Annie Wu
Operations
Sarah McKeen
Voter Turnout Consultant
Lesly Montes
Production Lead
Lilia Iza
Artist Relations Lead
Ella Manners
Marketing Lead
Nathaniel Dalbert
Data Lead
Abby Kandel
Digital Team