Dick Wingate (born April 6, 1952, in

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) is an American music industry and digital entertainment executive. He currently serves as principal of DEV Advisors, a digital entertainment consultancy that provides expertise to service providers, app developers, content owners and investors. He is a board member and partner in NY-based Big House Music Publishing and a lifetime member of

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(Grammys).

Early days

As a teenager, Wingate frequently went to concerts including

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featuring Rod Stewart,

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and a

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concert in

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in which

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was arrested on stage in December 1967. In 1970, he enrolled as a student at Brown University in

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. He then worked at WBRU-FM, starting out as a DJ and soon progressing to music director in 1972 and to program director in 1973. Wingate met Bruce Springsteen, who visited the station. Only a few years later he would become his product manager. In 1974, after graduating, Wingate moved to

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as director of East Coast Promotions / Operations for independent record label

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and worked with the artists Al Stewart, Camel, Caravan and

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. He also held a weekend DJ slot at WPLR-FM in

, where he first premiered "

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" to southern

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listeners.

Record labels: Columbia, Epic and PolyGram

In late 1975, Wingate moved to Columbia Records as a

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, and quickly became the manager of choice for their most prestigious and sensitive artists. During his tenure at Columbia, he product managed Springsteen's ''

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'', Pink Floyd – ''

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'', David Gilmour's first solo LP,

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'' and '' Equal Rights'' albums and the three album initial marketing campaign for Elvis Costello's ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Armed Forces''. His relationship with Springsteen was documented in Dave Marsh's authorized biography, ''Born to Run'', including a photograph of Springsteen and Wingate at the printing press as the covers of ''Darkness on the Edge of Town'' were being printed. He moved to Epic Records in 1979 as director of talent acquisition. His first signing was the studio creation

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(

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and George Young of

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fame) from Australia which went on to sell over 150,000 copies. He then completed a label licensing agreement with Stiff Records and released British new wave artists

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and Ian Gomm. Soon after, he had a number one hit single and first gold album with

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's "

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". His other notable signings included Face to Face who had a top 20 pop single "

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whose ''Escape Artist'' album he executive produced (''

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'' magazine named it one of the year's 10 best records in 1981); and most notably 'Til Tuesday's '' Voices Carry'' album (1985) which he executive produced, and included a top 10 pop single (" Voices Carry") and won the

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1985. In 1986, Dick Asher, the new president/CEO of

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hired Wingate as senior VP of

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, where he had responsibility for all US releases for both domestic and international artists. During his tenure, successes included the development of Bon Jovi from Gold (500K) unit sales to 10× Platinum on ''

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'' and 7 million on ''

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''; multi-platinum success with

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's '' Night Songs'' and '' Long Cold Winter'',

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; the signing of

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(platinum album and Grammy),

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, Ivan Neville and

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(which went on to become Pearl Jam). In late 1989, Wingate left PolyGram and by early 1990 so had most of the senior management staff including CEO Dick Asher, head of marketing Jim Urie and GM Bob Jamieson.

Transition to technology

In 1990, Wingate began consulting InTouch Group of

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, California, and became VP of Market and Business Development. InTouch developed the i-Station which married music previewing with interactive technology, database management and direct marketing. He acquired music catalogs from over 250 labels, developed and managed the database, helped negotiate an agreement with '' Billboard'' magazine to feature interactive ''Billboard'' music charts on the i-Station, and organized and conducted demonstration meetings for label executives, investors, market researchers, retailers, press and analysts. The systems proved prohibitively expensive to produce and maintain and eventually the company went into re-organization in February 1996. Wingate left in mid-1994 to return to Arista.

Return to Arista

Wingate returned to the record label Arista Records in June 1994 as Senior VP of Marketing to work directly for Clive Davis. At Arista over the next two years he promoted artists including

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Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is '' Surfacing'', for which she won two Grammy Awards (ou ...

, Annie Lennox,

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's soundtrack,

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, Barry Manilow,

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and Ace of Base. In 1996, he moved to Arista's corporate parent, BMG North America as New Media Consultant, helping to develop BMG's online & internet strategy. At BMG, he completed a deal with AOL

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became a consulting client in 1997, along with music database provider

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and EMCI.

Liquid Audio

Liquid Audio had developed one of the earliest standards for streaming and downloading audio on the Internet. CEO and Co-founder

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hired Wingate full-time as Senior VP of Content Development in July 1998. Over the next 3 years, he was responsible for managing music business development, label relations, affiliate management and content programming. He completed commercial licensing deals (prior to iTunes) with

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, EMI Music,

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and over 1000 independent record labels, thus building a significant digital music distribution inventory; and managed a network of retail and lifestyle websites that utilized Liquid Audio's technology or music catalogue including

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, Best Buy,

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, Barnes & Noble, ''Billboard'',

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, Music Boulevard and

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. Liquid Audio went public with an

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in 1999 and in January 2003, it was acquired by Anderson Media/Anderson Merchandisers During these years Wingate was a speaker at conferences including Jupiter Plug-In, Webnoize,

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, Credit Suisse, Business Week, SXSW, Interactive Music Expo and Gavin conferences. Wingate negotiated exclusive downloads from a live

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performance by

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, the first time music from a nationally known artist was made available for purchase exclusively on the Internet. While at Liquid Audio he was also the subject of a feature article in ''The New York Times'' Sunday Business section ("A Watchdog for Online Music" July 5, 2000), a front page ''

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'' article, ''

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'' and ''Hits'' magazine, and was quoted in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and many times in '' Billboard''. In 2000 he was selected as a representative of

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to meet President and Mrs. Clinton and five U.S. senators. In 2004 and 2005 Wingate served as president, Content & Programming for BPOD Networks, also known as Digital Transaction Machines Inc., an interactive systems provider for in-store delivery of digital products for clients including

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and 7-Eleven. DTM's systems enabled consumers to build playlists, burn custom CDs and get ringtones sent to their handsets.

Mobile media

In 2006, Wingate joined Nellymoser Inc. as president, media development & chief content officer. At Nellymoser, Wingate worked in mobile media delivery, mobile application development and streaming music to cell phones. He worked with ABC,

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/ BMG,

and MTV on application development. Nellymoser's Warner Music Jukebox application was the first music streaming on-demand service on any US carrier ( Sprint). As CCO, he was responsible for direct licensing of content and for content partnerships and programming for Nellymoser's own mobile music services which were offered on wireless service providers

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile te ...

Virgin Mobile Virgin Mobile is a wireless communications brand used by seven independent brand-licensees worldwide. Virgin Mobile branded wireless communications services are available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Kuwait, Saudi Ara ...

and

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. In 2008, Wingate left Nellymoser but continued consulting the company as a Digital Media Consultant along with Myxer,

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, Music180.com, Cava Capital and GyPSii.

TAG Strategic

Wingate joined Ted Cohen's TAG Strategic in middle of 2009 as General Manager, East Coast Business Development He provided multi-platform digital media strategy including business development, strategic and distribution partnerships, and content licensing, working with online service providers, app developers, content owners and software developers.

DEV Advisors/Digital Entertainment Ventures

In May 2012, Wingate created a partnership with Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), which provides guidance and early stage capital to companies working in digital services, where he served as Principal, DEV Advisors. DEV Advisors consults with both the technology and entertainment industries, and provided digital business strategy, content acquisition and licensing, distribution and access to high level relationships. Clients included Songza, CUR Media, Crowdmix Ltd, Studio One Media and Music X-Ray.

Big House Publishing

In November 2013, Wingate joined Christian Cedras & Krista Retto to launch to launch Big House Publishing, an independent music publishing and artist development company in New York City.

Crowdmix

In October 2015, Wingate joined UK-based Crowdmix.me as president, Artist & Entertainment Services, North America. The role, based in New York, saw him focus on Crowdmix's strategic collaboration with music industry stakeholders, including artists, record labels and marketers. Wingate was appointed by Rob Wells, Crowdmix's Global Commercial Officer and CEO the Americas. Crowdmix was a music-centric social media application developer.

DEV Advisors

In 2017, Wingate re-launched DEV Advisors, a digital entertainment consultancy that provides expertise to service providers, app developers, content owners and investors, with services including business development, partnerships, licensing, artist relations and investment.

References

External links

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