New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Downtown
Music Publishing has announced that Alan Goodstadt has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. In his new role based in New York, Goodstadt will oversee Downtown's global finance and accounting operations. He will report to Downtown's CEO, Justin Kalifowitz.
Goodstadt has over 20 years of investment banking, private equity, entrepreneurial and managerial experience. Prior to joining Downtown, Goodstadt was co-founder and Managing Partner of Amplified Capital Partners, an investment company that launched a chain of music schools in the New York area. Prior to Amplified, Alan was a Partner at Redwood Capital, a boutique investment bank serving the technology, communications, media, and business services industries. He ran the digital media practice, with a particular focus on the emerging digital music sector.
"As Downtown continues expanding its global reach, technology platform and client services offering, Alan is the ideal executive to lead finance for us," said Kalifowitz. "Whether it be an acquisition, partnership, or royalty advance financing, Alan's wide-ranging experience in media banking will be invaluable to our clients and their advisors in the months and years ahead."
Previously, Alan was a Managing
Director and Head of Retail Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch and a Managing
Director and Head of Consumer Retail Mergers & Acquisitions at Banc of
America Securities. Earlier in his career, he was a
Director at CSFB Equity Partners, a private equity fund controlled by Credit Suisse, where he led deal teams in executing and monitoring investments primarily in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors. Alan began his career at Chemical Bank (now JP
Morgan Chase) as a credit officer working with small businesses.
Alan's experience also includes serving on the Executive Council of
Digital Entertainment Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and serving on the Advisory Board of The Jam NYC, a recreational music organization for amateur musicians in New York City. Alan holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Applied Economics and Business Management from Cornell University.
About Downtown
Music Publishing
Founded in 2007, Downtown
Music Publishing is one of the world's leading rights-management firms, with offices in New York, Nashville, Los Angeles, London, and Amsterdam. The company's catalog spans over seven decades of popular music, encompassing some of the world's most beloved songwriters and artists including The Beatles,
John Lennon & Yoko Ono, The Kinks, Hans Zimmer, Bruce Springsteen, Mötley Crüe, One Direction, Hardwell, Santigold, and Carla Bruni. The company also represents such renowned publishing catalogs as Cy Coleman's Notable Music, the legendary Latin music catalog, Fania, the UK's Kassner Music, and Germany's Budde Music. The company's technology platform, Songtrust, powers global royalty collection from over 100 countries and more than 20,000 unique income sources worldwide.
