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NEW YORK, January 16, 2019: ASCAP, the American Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers, the world leader in public performing rights and advocacy for music creators, today announces the appointment of Nicole Carbone-Rogers as Senior Vice President and Head of Events. Effective February 11th, Carbone-Rogers will be responsible for the successful execution of ASCAP’s major awards shows and other key ASCAP events as part of ASCAP’s mission to elevate and honor the contributions of its songwriter, composer and music publisher members.

• Manage and maintain all experiential marketing and artist partnerships P&Ls. Annual budget of $15M which was associated to $97M in advertiser revenue, averaging about 75 events a year• Diligent contract negotiator for artists/talent, venues, festivals, third party properties and vendors• Mentor, encourage and cultivate an amazing team of eight experiential professionals located in NYC, Chi and LA.• Define the mission, vision, foundation and look/feel for the experiential marketing department to support the company’s overall strategies and objectives • Manage all branding of events/conferences and live experiences at all events for the Pandora brand and all partner/advertiser brands (ie: T-Mobile, Nestle, Comcast, Charter Communications, P&G, Lexus) • Experienced and proven results in management with consistent top performing employee engagement survey results• Cross-functional liaison integral in bringing the digital platform to life for a live audience in a unified manner. Work with as many as 15 internal teams to bring a vision to life (ie: PR/communications, sales, sales marketing, research, design, content, brand marketing…) • Proficient in all aspects of event production from staging and AV to artist/talent contracts to permitting and layouts• Extensive vendor and staffing contacts all across the country • Listen to trends in the market to utilize new and effective strategies to fill rooms and drive new monthly active users to drive incremental and new listeners/subscribers • Producer of the largest attended single day event for Pandora with nine sponsor partners, 130,000 square feet of event space and over 6,000 guests • Defined the strategy and process around building events and making sure that we are staying true to connecting fans—our listeners—with their favorite artists in their hometowns while providing a very unique experience and environment

• Increased attendee revenue on all of our events for 2011 by 26%• Implement, maintain and manage the conference registration system• Manage all branding of events/conferences (from logo creation to look and feel of the campaigns to GTM strategies and website creation)• Responsible for attendee revenue and overall attendee experience • Integrated consumer reach and elements into our B-to-B conferences and events to reach a new audience • Create event marketing and branding initiatives for print and online outlets inclusive of partnerships, PR campaigns, experiential marketing campaigns and all social marketing efforts• Maintain annual marketing plan, calendar and budget • Initiated cross brand marketing strategies with sister properties• Work hand-in-hand with the editorial team on content and messaging• Integrated web analytics to better serve our audience• Collaborated on our first ever full social media marketing campaign, resulted in increase in awareness and revenue

• Spearheaded a promotion to music managers that resulted in the biggest STARS special in decades for Billboard • Instrumental in the first perfect bound Year In Music & Touring Issue of Billboard • Negotiate and maintain integrated barter agreements with MIDEM, SXSW, IAVM, CMW, CMA and several other global industry conferences and associations that result in an increase in multi-media buys for the brand • Brought the Power Players Women in Music list to life with the first Women In Music event honoring our first Woman of the Year, Reba McEntire (plus Beyoncé as the Woman of the Year and Lady Gaga as our Rising Star for 2009, Fergie as the 2010 Woman of the Year) and managed the list from 20 female industry executives to the Top 30 with attendance growing 233% within the first 3 years• Manage 1 direct report.

• Sales and marketing support for regional sales team of 120 people • Create print mailings targeting potential cinema advertising buyers• Managed from conception the 2006 regional trade campaign with trade publications and trade shows• Maintain and manage the regional marketing budget • Facilitated events ranging from movie screenings for newly released movies, client/targeted screenings to business-to-business music industry events and trade events executed with high level attendees to increase company revenue and reinforce company marketing/branding initiatives, plus planned and organized the first two annual Regional Sales Meetings in Denver, CO