NEW YORK, New York. Capitalizing on continued revenue growth and business opportunity, RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider, has announced the hiring of Lisa Tiver to the position of Senior Vice-President of Business Development. Tiver will spearhead the company’s publisher and society outreach and strategy, as well as provide support for business development and business affairs initiatives.

Tiver is a successful and well-seasoned digital media executive, with wide-ranging experience and relationships in digital media licensing, music publishing, legal and business affairs both internationally and in the USA. Her experience includes working in-house for ESPN Star Sports, the ESPN/News Corp. joint venture based in Asia, for Formula One Motor Racing in the UK, and for the Ecast Network digital music service (whom she continues to advise). Additionally she has provided expertise to Mushroom Records in Australia and numerous digital start-ups including Project Playlist.

“We welcome Lisa to our team and look forward to working together to drive success for our partners and for the company,” said Patrick Sullivan, President and CEO. “She brings a unique combination of high-level licensing experience, market category intelligence, and international industry relationships to our team.”

Noted Tiver, “RightsFlow has created a unique and compelling model and message in the market, delivering efficiencies, transparencies and smart dynamic revenue expansion for the industry. I’m excited about helping to deliver our ever-growing collected dollars to songwriters and publisher on behalf of the thousands of artists, labels, distributors and online music companies that we serve.”

Based in San Francisco, Tiver is establishing the initial geographic footprint for the company on the west coast. Additionally, RightsFlow’s growth is reflected in current plans for increased resources company-wide in licensing, finance, technology, systems and content development areas.

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About RightsFlow
www.rightsflow.com

RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled provider of mechanical licensing services and a royalty payment platform for online artists, record companies, distributors, and online music companies. The RightsFlow technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licensees and licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary “FLOW” licensing technology and 23 million song database allow us to serve over 12,000 clients obtaining licenses from publishers and songwriters all over the world – including major, independent and artist controlled works.

RightsFlow also powers Limelight (www.songclearance.com), its online mechanical licensing utility providing the simplest way for musicians, bands, choirs and labels to clear any cover song.

Clients include Rhapsody, Muzak, The Orchard, INgrooves, Guvera, Dada Entertainment/Play.ME, Scattertunes, [PIAS], Alliance, Kontor New Media, Zynga, Beatport, Hoodiny, CAM, Zebralution, E1 Canada & US Distribution, CD Baby, Disc Makers, & X5 Music Group.

RightsFlow is a member of DDEX, DiMA, NARM and A2IM.

Contact for RightsFlow:
Michael Kauffman
SVP of Sales & Marketing
+1-646-461-6397
michael.kauffman@rightsflow.com
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