board of directors

 Since 1989, Pamela Whitman has been producing multi-media concerts, delivering a message of peace through intercultural understanding and compassion. Whitman created and directed the multi-cultural world peace rock band WorldColor which toured nationally and internationally for fourteen years. The band brought together musicians from around the globe to educate audiences about world cultures through music and art. Whitman led WorldColor in a three year cultural exchange project with Nepal.

In April she collaborated with Peru’s leading Pan-Flutist Cesar Villalobos in co-producing and headlining “Arte Sin Fronteras” music and dance festival in Northern Peru. In June she collaborated with Dr. Jay Fluellen to produce the Unity Concert benefiting the Harriet Tubman Museum in New Jersey.

In 2022 Whitman will co-create a new work with pre-eminent Northern Plains Lakota Flutist Kevin Locke. In December she will again team up with Villalobos to perform a Christmas concert in rural Peru for children and senior citizens. 

“Artists for a Better World” honored Pamela with an international award for her humanitarian work as a producer and flutist. In the summers, she enjoys playing classical favorites by the sea in the Ocean City Pops Orchestra, where she has been the Principal Flutist since 1989. She earned a degree in Flute Performance from the University of Michigan. She is an active recording artist, a chamber musician and author.

 Los Angeles native, Frank "Eddie" Lopez, began his career in the legal field at the age of 18 in 1987 as a law librarian for the prominent insurance defense law firm in downtown Angeles, Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow & Canter. 

From there he worked for entertainment law firm Hayes, Hume, Petas and Langberg as assistant office mgr. for clients such as Joe Hamilton, Aaron Spelling (personal and production), Martin and Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Valerie Harper (vs Hogan Family series production), Carol Burnett (vs. Nat'l Enquirer) subsequently taking a position as legal secretary to sole practitioner entertainment attorney, Andrew C. Rigrod, Esq. whose clients included Mark Hamill, Kelly Le Brock, Steven Seagal, Orion Pictures and Paramount Pictures specializing in screenwriter/treatment options, acting, directing, producing and all aspects of production legal type agreements.  

His music career began at MCA Records, Special Markets division, in 1991 as assistant to two Mgrs of the Special Markets Dept largely handling all music licensing (inbound-outbound) agreement production, domestic & Int'l, moving on to work for Kathy Nelson (also at MCA), now President of Universal Music's Film & TV Soundtracks Dept. 

In late 1992, he then moved onto EMI/Capitol Records where he was responsible for: 

·  Supervision, training, evaluating and developing a 22-member staff comprising the following departments; Soundtrack Licensing, 3rd Party Licensing (outbound/inbound), Domestic Licensing (In-bound/outbound), International Licensing (inbound/outbound) and A&R Administration/Repertoire Management Systems (Asset/Repertoire Management) 

·  Managed the process of a global repertoire “data scrub” efforts to increase efficiencies required for EMI’s existing and developing digital initiatives.  Integral to the development of licensing, data management and internal training processes and related systems/work-flow initiatives and inter-departmental dependencies eliminating redundancies with updated/newly developed systems.

·  Skilled in negotiating and executing the administration of various work-for-hire, side-artist, remix, sample mash-up, re-record, exclusive and non-exclusive, merchandising, artist and third party/internal licensing and related agreements, revenue tracking.

·  Responsible for the administration and integration of all new catalogue acquisitions and any other exclusively licensed audio catalogues to insure maximum return for the company on investments and recoupment of said investments

·  Negotiate and execute publishing, mechanical and synchronization deals for exclusive release via non-traditional retail outlets including administration of p&ls and cost analysis both pre and post release for maximum returns on Capito/EMI and affiliated/owned label recordings

·  Work with exclusive clients and internal departments to administer agreements and develop brands for either EMI or its designated clientele, including Time-Life, Starbucks, Apple, Coca Cola, Razor & Tie, Williams-Sonoma, Target Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco and other non-traditional music retail outlets

·  Designated contact for all licensing negotiations with the Estates of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Beach Boys, Dean Martin and Peggy Lee as well as licensing of additional artists including The Beatles, Al Green, Goldfrapp, Fischerspooner, Basement Jaxx, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Spice Girls, Radiohead, Liz Phair, Norah Jones, Aaliyah, Pharrel Williams (as Star Trak via Virgin Records) Billy Idol, James Bond Franchise, Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Queen (excluding North America), Spice Girls, Natalie Cole, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Coldplay, Selena, Aaliyah, Don McLean, Garth Brooks, Wilson Phillips and more.

From 1998 to early 2000 he relocated to the East Coast where he was employed by Nielsen Media Corporation as Manager, Contract Administration for the nations sole provider of tracking/ratings data for television, film, music, etc. to radio stations/television stations and other media entertainment companies including:

·  Managed an 8 member department responsible for the drafting and administration of all service contracts between Nielsen Media and various television networks, cable networks and private retail data feeds (kiosk, digital, internet ratings).

·  Capably drafted and negotiated service contracts with Nielsen clients such as NBC, Paxton Television, CBS Television, Fox Television and various cable networks; Lifetime, HBO, etc.

·  Developed Contract Administration systems and created solutions for managing contract training for field sales offices. Travelled extensively to introduce and promote this training and followed through on implementation.

From 2006 until 2012 he was Director, Royalties for Warner Music Group/Rhino Entertainment where his responsibilities included:

·  Supervising and managing a 16 member staff in the processing of all artist/publisher royalties, including rate interpretation via contract research, rate entry and processing of all related royalty expenses for the accurate and efficient distribution of royalty statements.

·  Supervise the processing of accruals, advances, recoupable costs, inter-company transfers, RIAA certifications, adjustments, quarter-end processes, and all associated processes for master and publishing functions.

·  Manage adherence to certain stringent government mandated Sarbanes-Oxley process controls, audit requests and/or additional internal controls as required for quality control purposes.

·  Liaise with all levels of Management and/or Business Affairs departments to insure accuracy in all aspects of data being entered into RoyLT systems (Warner/Rhino custom royalty systems)

Outside of this experience Frank "Eddie" is an avid music collector, producer, writer, performer and all around music aficionado of every genre with 9 albums to his name as a producer/writer/vocalist, an artist, and is a Member of ASCAP, a voting GRAMMY member and NARIP (National Association of Record Industry Professionals)

 Cornell Christianson is an award-winning playwright and writer of four published books. He won two Emmy Awards for producing "The Paper Chase" at Twentieth Century-Fox.

He wrote two musicals that each ran two years Off-Broadway and got six Ovation Award nominations. He wrote "Repossessed" which won Best Horror Short Film at Comic Con. He was awarded a New Jersey State Senate Citation for community service. He has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from the College of William & Mary. He is a licensed Spiritual Practitioner at the Agape International Spiritual Center where he ran their Road Show Ministry for 15 years.