Yvonne Drazan, Vice President of A&R US Latin – Born and raised in LA, Yvonne Drazan has been in the music industry for over 30 years. She is currently the VP, West Coast Latin Division at peermusic, where she began in 2003 as Creative Manager. She represents many writer/artists including Gloria Trevi, Mala Rodriguez, Molotov, Lupita Infante, Gaby Moreno, Alex Anwandter, El Komander, and Chiquis, among others. Her experience includes Label Manager for Gustavo Santaolalla’s imprint Surco/Univesal, (Juanes, Molotov, Bajo Fondo) and coordinating his film scoring work (Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries) as well as outside productions (Café Tacuba, Kronos Quartet). Prior to Surco, Drazan was the National Manager of Media Relations at Rhino Records (Los Lobos, Ramones, The Cars, Devo), was a road manager for various Latin Rock artists (Caifanes, Maldita Vecindad, La Castañeda) and a marketing assistant at EMI Latin (Selena Quintanilla, Jon Secada). Drazan began her career in 1988 as the co-founder of Club Rock En Español, the first organization to promote Latin Rock music in the United States.

Adam LaRue, CEO LaRue Music – A 30-year veteran of the music industry who has marketed the global album launches of Rancid, Mavis Staples, Glen Hansard, Dr. Dog, Plain White T’s, At The Drive-in, Sugarcult, Portugal The Man, Parkway Drive, and Bring Me The Horizon, among many others while at prominent labels Epitaph, Anti-, and Fearless Records. As head of marketing at the southern California indie labels, Adam was responsible for the Publicity, digital, Video, advertising, tour marketing, street level marketing efforts and radio campaigns for the aforementioned artists. As a result of his work Adam has been awarded platinum and gold records for Plain White T’s, Talking Heads, & Grabbitz.