Administración
Brad Navin
Chief Executive Officer
Brad Navin was appointed to Chief Executive Officer of The Orchard in February 2010. Prior to being named CEO, Brad served as Vice President and General Manager, where he oversaw global marketing, licensing, operations, and was responsible for the implementation and supervision of the company’s global business strategy. Before joining The Orchard, Brad served as a senior executive at Digital Club Network and was also an artist manager at Invasion Group Management. Brad holds a B.A. from Loyola College. Brad is a sucker for a song with a good hook and is very proud of the fact that his son’s first earworm was “Yellow Submarine”.
Richard Gottehrer
Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Richard Gottehrer is Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of The Orchard. He began his career in the music industry as a songwriter, penning classics such as "My Boyfriend's Back" and "I Want Candy," and was an artist in the 1960s pop group, The Strangeloves. In 1996, he co-founded leading independent record label Sire Records with fellow luminary Seymour Stein. Sire was later sold to the Time Warner Corporation, and Mr. Gottehrer went on to make a name as a multi-platinum producer for well-known music acts, including Blondie, The Go-Go's, The Raveonettes and Joan Armatrading before co-founding The Orchard in 1997.
Nathan Fong
Chief Financial Officer
Nathan Fong is Chief Financial Officer for The Orchard. Nathan joins The Orchard from In-Demand Networks, where he was Senior Vice President and CFO. Prior to that, he oversaw all aspects of finance and business development for Rodale International as CFO. Nathan has also served as Senior Vice President and CFO for Discovery Networks International and Divisional Vice President for Twentieth Century Fox International. Nathan is a Certified Public Accountant. During off hours, Nathan finds entertainment by listing to his young son and daughter play the guitar and piano.
Scott Cohen
Co-Founder and Vice President, International
Scott Cohen is Co-Founder and Vice President, International for The Orchard. Mr. Cohen is primarily responsible for label acquisition in western European territories. As a well-recognized public speaker and lecturer, Mr. Cohen travels the world evangelizing new business models for the digital age. In 2007, he was asked to join London Metropolitan University as a visiting professor. Mr. Cohen's music career started in the late eighties in independent and major label artist management. In addition to his responsibilities at The Orchard, he manages Danish indie rock sensation, The Raveonettes. Scott is a minimalist and strict vegan. No meat, fish, cheese, milk, honey, leather, wool or anything else derived from an animal.
Steve Haase
Executive Vice President, Business Development
Steve Haase is Executive Vice President, Business Development for The Orchard. Steve has been an executive at The Orchard since its inception in 1997. Steve is responsible for brokering all digital music and video service sales relationships throughout the world. Steve serves on the Advisory Board of Music Intelligence Solutions, a patented, artificial intelligence platform for music discovery and predictive market analytics, where he advises the executive team on their strategic development of consumer facing and white label music applications. Steve has seen 1,099 Van Halen concerts.
Jeff Nimerofsky
Senior Vice President Finance, Human Resources, and Administration
Jeff Nimerofsky is Senior Vice President Finance, Human Resources, and Administration for The Orchard. Jeff oversees all financial planning including budgeting, forecasting and cash management. He is also responsible for Royalties, Revenue Processing, Collections, Human Resources and Office Administration. Prior to joining The Orchard, Jeff served as Vice President - Shared Service Royalties at Warner Music Group. Before joining Warner Music, Jeff worked at Elektra Entertainment and Sony Music in a variety of progressively responsible management roles. Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant and has an MBA in Finance. Jeff often finds himself listening to his son play rock and roll music on his electric guitar and he collaborates with him in the songwriting process.
Alexis H. Shapiro
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Alexis H. Shapiro is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for The Orchard. Alexis is responsible for initiating and maintaining programs and procedures for the management of day-to-day corporate activities. Alexis oversees the company's SEC filings, management of stock option award programs and SOX compliance. She was previously with the firm Pryor Cashman LLP, where she focused on general corporate, securities, mergers & acquisitions and private equity law. Alexis holds a BA from Smith College and a JD from Boston College Law School. As a young child, Alexis wanted to learn to play guitar, but her mother wanted her to learn to play the piano; Alexis can play the piano (and air guitar).
Miki Tunis
Senior Vice President, International
Miki Tunis is Senior Vice President, International for The Orchard. Miki oversees many of The Orchard’s global territories, particularly Russia, Turkey, Greece, Eastern Europe, Mid East and Africa, and has been a key executive for managing Orchard’s international operations since joining the company in 2005. As the former managing director of Hed Arzi, the largest media company in Israel, Miki oversaw the licensing of catalogues from companies such as Warner, BMG, BBC, and National Geographic, and was responsible for the global success of Israeli platinum recording artist Ofra Haza. Miki was Chairman of the Board of Tower Records in Israel and Chairman of the Board Israelai (I.F.P.I). Miki loves World Music, and already has sandals, kafir and sunscreen prepared for the day he fulfills his dream of going to Timbuktu (Mali) for their annual desert music festival.
Prashant Bahadur
Vice President & General Manager
Prashant Bahadur is Vice President and General Manager of The Orchard. In overseeing global distribution, marketing and label relations, Prashant is responsible for the implementation and supervision of the company’s global business strategy. He joined The Orchard in 2004 as Director of Retail Marketing. Prashant began his career with PepsiCo in marketing, and later moved to EMI where he worked across the sales, marketing and new media areas. He holds an MBA in marketing and has a Masters of Arts from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University..
