Mike Kopp has over 40 years of strategic management, marketing and communications expertise honed on the front lines of music, politics and business, with clients that have included artists, Members of Congress, publicly traded and privately held corporations, as well as non-profits.

In the music arena, Mike manages the multi-platinum selling artist Ben Folds. He has also served on the President’s Council for the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) and the Board of the Americana Music Association, is an advisor to the North Carolina Music Office and serves on the Board of the North Carolina Arts Foundation. A member of the Recording Academy, he was also founding President of the Music Industry Coalition, a grass roots organization of Nashville’s creative working class that successfully fought to save historic RCA Studio A on Nashville’s Music Row and other landmarks from demolition.

As a longtime political and civic activist and former Press Secretary to Al Gore, he supports artists around the US engaged in political advocacy, is active in ongoing Nashville community initiatives and as a Board member of the Arts Action Fund which fights for federal arts funding and served on the Arts Policy Committee for President Joe Biden’s 2020 Transition Team.