Dick Wingate is Principal, DEV Advisors (www.devadvisors.com), a digital entertainment consulting firm that provides expertise to technology companies, content owners, artists and investors.

With more than 40 years of experience in the music and interactive industries, Wingate helpedpioneer the digital music business from its infancy as SVP, Content Development at LiquidAudio, Inc, playing an integral role in their 1999 IPO and negotiating the first digital distributionlicenses from the major record labels. He subsequently served as President, Media Development & Chief Content Officer for Nellymoser, an early provider of streaming mobile application services with clients such as Sony, Warner Music, MTV, AT&T, Virgin Mobile & ABCTelevision.

His positions in the record industry included SVP Marketing, Arista Records; SVP & A&R PolyGramRecords; Director. Talent, Epic Records; and Director, Product Management, Columbia Records.He has been granted lifetime membership in NARAS (Grammys).