Dick Wingate is Principal at DEV Advisors (Digital Entertainment Ventures) and provides business strategy, content licensing, access to key relationships, and market and product development for clients.
Previously he was GM Business Development for TAG Strategic, a digital entertainment consulting firm and President, Media Development & CCO for Nellymoser, an early provider of rich media mobile apps.
Dick helped pioneer the digital music business as SVP, Content Development, at Liquid Audio, playing an integral role in bringing the company public in 1999.
In the record industry his positions included SVP, Marketing, Arista Records and SVP, A&R, PolyGram Records.He has spoken at numerous industry conferences and has been featured or quoted in the NY Times, the LA Times, WSJ, Time, USA Today, NY Times Magazine and Billboard.