2026 Speaker Profiles

David Dunn is a founding member and the managing partner of Shot Tower Capital LLC, a leading music industry-focused investment banking and advisory firm. Mr. Dunn has completed in excess of 150 merger and acquisition and financing transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $90 billion. Mr. Dunn is widely regarded as an expert in music industry finance and has been included on the Billboard Power 100 list comprised of the 100 most powerful executives in the music industry in multiple years and was peer nominated as one of the top 20 most influential music executives in 2023, 2024 and 2025 and was featured in Billboard’s inaugural finance 50 list in January 2026. He has advised on many of the largest music M&A transactions over the last two decades, including representing Blackstone in the sale of select Hipgnosis Music Fund Assets to Sony Music including Hipgnosis Songs Group, Mavin Records in its sale to Universal Music Group, the Estate of Michael J. Jackson in the formation of a new joint venture with Sony Music which included Sony’s purchase of a 50% interest in the Estate’s publishing and recorded music rights, the sale of Hipgnosis Song Fund Limited to Blackstone, the sale of Phil Collins, Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics Catalogs to Concord Music Group, the formation of a publishing and recorded music joint ventures for Pulse Music, the sale of the James Brown to Primary Wave, the sale of investor interests in EMI Music Publishing to Sony Corporation, the sale of Imagem Music (including Rogers and Hammerstein) to Concord Music Group, the sale of the Estate of Michael J. Jackson’s 50% interest in Sony/ATV Music Publishing (including the Beatles’ songbook) to Sony Corporation, and the purchase of EMI Music Publishing from Citigroup by an investor consortium.