Speaker Profiles

Barry Massarsky is a partner and co-leader of Citrin Cooperman’s Music and Entertainment Valuation Services Practice. He has over 30 years of experience acting as a leading advisor in the music industry serving the valuation interests of music publishing and recording label firms. His music valuation clientele is the most vast in industry. He provides strategic counsel to owners of music copyrights, as well as valuation, litigation economics, and performance income review. Barry is known for his high value relationships with performance rights organizations, music publishers, record companies, music industry trade organizations, and music litigation firms.

Barry has pioneered the field of music copyright economics serving revenue-related interests within the U.S. music industry, facilitating strategic opportunities for advancing royalty income, and inspiring new license regimes.. Barry has worked with the premiere commercial lenders, private equity, and other financial investors who are acquiring music asset rights. Previously, Barry was the founder of Massarsky Consulting, a leading copyright economics consultancy, which joined Citrin Cooperman in 2022. Prior to founding Massarsky Consulting, Barry was a Senior Economist at American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Barry earned his BA from Boston University and MBA from Cornell University.