Allen Bargfrede

Allen Bargfrede is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Verifi Media, the authoritative data hub for the music industry. In this role, he oversees all strategic initiatives for the company, helping to build a platform that enables artists and their teams to quickly and easily store, locate, correct, and share verified media metadata, ownership information, and underlying asset files with all stakeholders across the digital value chain, including labels, publishers, distributors, DSPs, PROs, and CMOs. Over the course of his career, he has served as a lawyer for both startups and S&P 500 companies, created multiple initiatives as an educator and researcher at Berklee College of Music, managed independent and major-label artists, invested in a variety of music rights projects, and authored the book Music Law in the Digital Age. He is based in Biarritz, France.