Sandi Brown
General Manager, KLJY & KPVR/St. Louis

Sandi helped start and launch JOY FM in St. Louis 18 years ago.   She serves as General Manager for both JOY FM and Boost Radio.

Sandi was also a producer for Focus on the Family. She serves on the Christian Music Broadcasters board of directors.

 She has been married for 31 years, has 3 children and changed her name to “Nana” 2 years ago.

Lyall Mercer  •  @Mercer_PR
Managing Director, Mercer PR

Lyall Mercer is considered Australia’s leading public relations practitioner for Christian organisations, with clients that include global churches, national ministries and schools. He has consulted to Christian broadcasters and also has vast experience working with large corporate clients. He specialises in reputation and issues management, media relations and crisis communications and has dealt with media on every continent. He lived and worked in the USA for seven years and recently established an American company under the same name – Mercer PR. Based out of Los Angeles, Mercer PR will specialise in serving Christian clients across America.

David Harms  • @i5810Media
President, i58:10 media

David Harms is the Founder and President of i58:10 Media based outside of Portland, OR. Over the last 22 years his team has utilized radio as its primary outlet for raising money for non-profits (including Christian radio stations). i58:10 Media averages raising over $13,000,000 a year on radio for Christian causes.

Alissa Pollack  •  @APMediabase
Exec. VP of Global Music Marketing, iHeartMedia

Alissa Pollack is the Executive Vice President of Global Music Marketing, an initiative that focuses on leveraging iHeartMedia’s extensive pool of listener data and deep music and consumer insights to benefit advertising partners, brands and artists and to deliver even more value on air, online, mobile, social and through live events. Pollack works closely with brands to create targeted music strategies and programs, as well as, create custom content and events, secure brand ambassadors, coordinate tour integrations and license music that will best represent those brands and increase the efficacy of advertising campaigns and fan engagement.  She has developed and collaborated on programs such as Pepsi’s The Sound Drop featuring Lukas Graham, Jidenna, and Alessia Cara; Macy’s Presents Fashion’s Front Row featuring Ariana Grande and Flo Rida; Chex Mix/General Mills featuring Backstreet Boys, Jeff Timmons, and MY2K Tour; M&M’s First Look featuring, The Chainsmokers, Florida Georgia Line and others, and iHeartRadio Label Defiers featuring Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Puth, Nick Jonas, Camila Alvares.

In addition, Pollack oversees Mediabase’s Domestic and International music ventures as well as those for Rate the Music, BuzzAngle Music and M-Score and works very closely with iHeartMedia’s National Programming Platforms team to create national research strategies and to discover and develop new artists early in their career. She has been instrumental in guiding the roll out strategy for those artists ranging from Katy Perry, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, twenty one pilots, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, to Post Malone, NF, Bazzi, Marshmello, Dua Lipa, and Bebe Rexha. Her team spearheads artist relations for Premiere Networks’ more than 5,000 affiliates, the iHeartRadio Digital and Podcast teams and internationally through iHeartRadio’s broadcast partnerships. Pollack maintains key label and artist relationships by generating custom data focused roadmaps for music’s current and next superstars in all formats and by creating multi-platform opportunities across iHeartMedia’s unique proprietary and partner assets.

Pollack also serves on the Board of MusiCares, Musicians on Call and the Executive Board of the Music and Entertainment Committee for City of Hope.  She created and chairs the Taste of Hope, which has become one of the best attended music industry events and to date has raised over $6 million for City of Hope. She was Jet Set Magazine’s first featured entrepreneur for her charity based brand programs and she was the honoree for TJ Martell’s 16th Annual Family Day.  In partnership with Musicians on Call, the Jason Pollack Bedside Performance program brings the healing power of music to thousands of patients each year.

Mark H. Maxwell  •  @MarkHMaxwell
Entertainment Attorney & Author

Mark H. Maxwell is an entertainment attorney, music business veteran and college professor. As a lawyer, Maxwell represents a diverse roster of recording artists, celebrities, record labels, music publishers, authors, songwriters and producers. As a professor in Belmont University’s prestigious entertainment business and songwriting program, he created their popular course on Bob Dylan and teaches courses on music business, faith and culture, and copyright law. As an author, Mark recently completed his first book, Networking Kills: Success Through Serving. Maxwell is passionate about serving as a mentor to the next generation of creatives and entertainment business professionals. He lives in Nashville with his wife and children.

Jeff Rasor  •  @JeffRasor
Life & Business Breakthrough Coach

Jeff leads people and teams to experience breakthrough, by discovering and fulfilling their unique purpose and potential.

The depth and breadth of Jeff’s 20+ year vocational journey in executive level leadership spans a multitude of sectors. Among the number – corporate, quasi- government, and not-for-profit environments, as well as being an entrepreneur, consultant, author, and teaching & executive pastor in a large non-denominational church.

As a result, Jeff works with large and small organizations, individuals, couples, leaders, executives, and visionaries from all walks of life. His work is in demand across multiple platforms: keynote speaking, corporate seminars, executive retreats as well as facilitating strategic, operating & marketing plans and ad hoc management sessions.

In addition, Jeff hosts proprietary and powerful Blue Sky Breakthrough coaching programs and workshops, aimed at groups and teams or individuals and couples – which are delivered online, onsite, or in private one-on-one breakthrough experiences.

He has been described as a “ninja” for his ability to read the room, see around corners, and guide people and teams to self-owned breakthrough – not telling them what they should think, believe or know. As a craftsman of clarity, purpose, and momentum, Jeff has championed and guided many organizations and people through to their next level of impact and influence.

Scott Burnell  •  @FordDevTeam
Global Lead, Business Development & Partner Management, Ford Motor Company

Scott Burnell created and launched the world’s first automotive developer ecosystem, the Ford Developer Program in 2013. To date he has welcomed over 25,000 developers in to the global FordDev community to innovate alongside the AppLink team.  Scott has expanded the mobile content world through his leadership in the creation of SmartDeviceLink (SDL), the open source solution adopted by Toyota and others, making it possible for any OEM to retain branding and simplify integration of apps and content in the vehicle.

Prior to joining Ford, Scott enjoyed a successful career shaping the wireless industry.  Starting with bag phones and beepers, he spent more than a decade developing corporate and indirect retail channels for major US wireless operators. Moving in to mobile content, Scott led the development and launch of more than 500 mobile apps and defined the mobile efforts for top brands such as E! Entertainment, Maxim, and Turner Networks. Ford Dev continues the long line of successful mobile ecosystem administration for Scott, including those at AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and others.

Andrew Curran  •  @DMR_Radio
President and COO, DMR/Interactive

Andrew started with DMR/Interactive in 2004, was named COO in 2011 and promoted to president in 2013. He began his career with ESPN Radio before moving to iHeartMedia.

Curran and the DMR/Interactive team leverage data analytics and consumer insights to deliver strategic, multi-dimensional marketing campaigns that drive ratings and revenue for clients by identifying and engaging the employed listeners who matter most.

An outspoken advocate for radio, Mr. Curran regularly shares insights and best practices with the radio industry having spoken at the Worldwide Radio Summit (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015), NAB/RAB Radio Show (2017), the Conclave (2017), Nielsen Audio Hispanic PD Clinic (2016), Nielsen Audio Client Conference (2015), CMB Momentum Summit (2015), Country Radio Seminar (2014, 2013) along with other speaking engagements and published articles.

Curran graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College and received his MBA from Thomas More College. He resides in Cincinnati, OH with his wife Liz and their children: Anna, Bridget, James and Claire.

Rick Dunham  •  @rjdunham
CEO, Dunham+Company|ShareMedia Services

Rick first served nonprofits through fundraising and organizational development nearly 40 years ago. He worked in nonprofit management and leadership for more than a decade before using his passion and expertise as a consultant. All of this culminated with the founding of Dunham+Company in 2002.

Since then, Rick has led Dunham+Company to become a global leader in helping nonprofits create and execute fully integrated fundraising and marketing strategies. With dozens of clients on four continents, Dunham+Company now has the opportunity to share their skills with the top organizations around the world.

Rick holds a BA from Biola University and a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary. He currently serves on the board of The Giving Institute and is Chair of the Board of the Giving USA Foundation, the publisher of the most widely respected report on giving in the USA. Rick also advocates for charitable organizations through his work with The Giving Coalition.

Rick is the author of Secure: Discovering True Financial Freedomand If God Will Provide, Why Do We Have to Ask for Money?His expertise causes him to be a frequent guest in national publications, radio broadcasts, as well as television outlets like Fox Business News.

Fred Jacobs  •  @fnjacobs
President, Jacobs Media

Jacobs Media celebrates its 36^thanniversary this year, providing research and consulting guidance to brands throughout North America, including commercial, public, and digital media.

Fred has been credited with the creation and popularization of the Classic Rock format, launched in the early ‘80s, and still going strong today.

Jacobs Media’s annual Techsurveys have been widely quoted inside radio – and out – providing fresh data about the “connected car,” smart speakers, podcasting, and other key challenges and opportunities facing radio.

Fred’s mobile app company, j?capps (JAKE-apps), has been at the forefront of connecting radio with the mobile revolution. In eight years, the company has developed more than 1,200 apps that have generated more than 25 million downloads.

Fred was inducted into the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2005.  He received the prestigious Rockwell award from the Conclave in 2012, Radio Ink’s Luminary Award in 2011, and an Outstanding Alumni Award from Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts that same year.  He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2018.