NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- RightsFlow, a leading licensing and royalty service provider in the $67B global music industry, has added accomplished Silicon Valley media executive and investor Doug Barry to its advisory board.  Barry brings two decades of progressive leadership and passionate vision to this role to help drive strategic opportunity and partnerships for the NY-based company.

"We're thrilled to welcome Doug to our team," said Patrick Sullivan, RightsFlow President/CEO.  "His dynamic expertise will both complement and inspire our thinking and our potential."

Added Barry, an early venture investor in Pandora Radio, "RightsFlow has built a powerful platform to help businesses efficiently manage rights and pay royalties to publishers and songwriters in the quickly changing music industry. I am excited to work with Patrick and his team to deliver that capability."

After a career start in Hollywood developing TV game shows like Win, Lose or Draw and The Joker's Wild, Doug has held executive positions at Electronic Arts, Turner Broadcasting, and Navio Communications (Liberate).  He has also worked with numerous successful startups including BigFix (acquired by IBM), Coremetics (acquired by IBM), Glumobile (IPO), Pandora (IPO planned), Panopticon (acquired by Broadbase),TIVO (IPO).

Barry is currently Managing Director at Selby Venture Partners, a $140 million fund, focused on digital media, internet, and mobile investments.  Through Artist Capital Group (ACG), Doug provides venture style finance to indie artists, songwriters, and publishers. Additionally he's a passionate supporter and advisor to Grameen Foundation, a leading microfinance organization who's founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, won the Nobel Peace Prize this past year.

About RightsFlow

www.rightsflow.com

RightsFlow is a leading technology-enabled licensing and royalty service provider for artists, record labels, distributors, and online music companies. Our technology powers rapid song identification and provides an unprecedented level of transparency for both licensees and licensors. RightsFlow specializes in obtaining bulk physical, DPD, and ringtone licenses including streaming, tethered, and limited download rights. Our proprietary "FLOW" licensing technology and 23 million song database allow us to serve over 16,000 clients obtaining licenses from publishers and songwriters all over the world.

RightsFlow also powers Limelight (www.songclearance.com), the simplest way for musicians, bands, choirs and labels to clear any cover song.

RightsFlow is a member of DDEX, DiMA, NARM, NAMM, AIM and A2IM.

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