Joe Conyers III

Senior Advisor

2023 - Current

Looking for growth venture and late stage buyout opportunities inside the music, creator and entertainment space.

Executive Vice President

2021 - 2022

Launched new division. Generated ~$213MM in revenue in >9 months with our run rate approaching ~$1B run rate by our one year anniversary.

Chief Strategy Officer

2011 - 2021

Downtown Music Holdings is one of the largest music businesses with reportedly est. $900MM 24' revenue / $40MM EBITDA. Downtown owns, manages, and develops businesses that support a vision for a more equitable and innovative global music ecosystem. Joe led global strategy at Downtown and spent my time mostly on M&A, corporate venture capital, strategic partnerships, digital licensing, technology, innovation and product initiatives. Downtown brands include: Downtown Music Services, Songtrust(Which Joe co-founded), Downtown Music Publishing, Fuga, CD Baby, AdRev, DashGo, Soundrop, Show.co, HearNow, Illustrated sound, and Downtown Music Studios. Downtown has over 600 employees globally, maintains operations in almost all global material markets spanning across 6 continents. Downtown divested of its music publishing IP catalog at a reported $400MM at a 20x multiple in April 2021. At Downtown I helped complete 6 acquisitions totaling ~$300MM in ~30 months all of which have met or exceeded managment plans.

Co-Founder

2011 - 2021

Songtrust helps music makers collect their royalties. We make it easy to get paid publishing royalties from places like Youtube, Spotify, Radio, Pandora, Movies, TV, and pretty much anywhere music is played. “Songtrust offers a rare proposition: getting your publishing royalty money collected, no matter how small your following, from all corners of the world.” - Rolling Stone I owned the P&L, led the day to day and grew Songtrust from $XXk to $XXMM in revenue, from ~1k clients to over 200k+ and scaled from 2 to 80+ employees before passing the reigns to focus on strategy for all of its parent( Downtown Music Holdings) portfolio companies. Songtrust was named a top music startup by Billboard Magazine. We've been featured in Techcrunch, The Guardian, Billboard Biz, Hypebot, Digital Music News, Music Week, GQ, Bloomberg and other publications.

Full time / night school "intern"

2006 - 2006

Worked as internal managment consultants providing guidance and business intelligence to division stakeholders. Doing what could losely be defined as wrangling big data before big data was really here. We reviewed aggregate trades and determined inefficiencies in their straight through processing and operations. Largely worked on prime brokerage and derivatives which had grown exponentially over that era.

Tech Intern

2005 - 2005

Intern

2004 - 2004

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory for a mid market fabless high performance ethernet integrated circuits focused semiconductor company. Vitesse was later acquired by Microsemi.