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SVP, Admin services,ASCAP
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Razzano leads operations and strategy for ASCAP’s royalty administration arm, Songwize, which processes and matches performances and pays royalties for music publisher clients in partnership with a broad range of digital music services, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google Play, Pandora and YouTube. 

Razzano has more than 25 years’ experience with music rights. He was formerly Vice President, Global Synch Operations and Systems for BMG Rights Management, where he was responsible for the company’s Songs.bmg portal and for overseeing and developing systems and operational protocols for BMG’s global synchronization operations for the advertising, film, TV and new media industries. Prior to BMG, he was Vice President of Business Development for Ricall, an automated online music licensing platform. He also spent four years with BMG Music Publishing, negotiating synchronization licenses for advertising and merchandising in the U.S. and handling international clearance of BMG’s U.S. repertoire for music in advertising campaigns around the world.

Razzano started his career at a TV commercial editorial house and went on to join the music department of one of the world’s largest advertising agencies at the time, D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. He has also held positions at CBS Television, Universal Music Publishing and Spirit Music Group. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bryant College (RI) and a certificate in Intellectual Property Law from New York University.