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Riptide Music Group is a sync driven music publishing company and record label that has proactively generated over $60 million in licensing fees for its clients.
As a hands-on creative music company, Riptide fosters collaboration and provides guidance for its creator community. Riptide’s publishing catalog includes songs released by Migos, Selena Gomez, Juice WRLD, Quavo, Big Gigantic, Foster The People, Jordin Sparks, Fatboy Slim, Goldfish and hundreds of independent artists for which Riptide controls 100% master and publishing rights. Hidden Track, Riptide’s sync agency arm, manages the sync rights to a roster that includes Major Lazer, Oasis, Courtney Barnett, Tom Morello, Porter Robinson, OWSLA, Mom + Pop Records, Neon Gold Records and many more culturally significant artists and labels.
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Megan Mckinlay
Executive VP
Megan has journeyed her way from being a just a music lover to a lover of all things music.Megan's true north has always been to help others.
Her entry into the music industry was no different. She came on board in 2006 with Pigfactory to develop an overall understanding of music licensing and publishing administration so that she could positively impact the business with streamlined systems and operations. Megan quickly became instrumental in the formation of a successful worldwide network for at-source royalty collection and copyright registration. In 2014, the Pigfactory family merged with Riptide Music Inc creating Riptide Music Group. Megan continued on as the Director and then the VP of Publishing Administration department for the past 15 years.
In Megan's new role as EVP, Megan now sits in a position where she can apply her true north to creating and maintaining a positive and rewarding working environment for Riptide employees as well as for Riptide clients and partners. She has a natural ability to identify synergistic relationships and create win-win partnerships.
Richard Hellstern
VP Operations
As Riptide Music’s Vice President of Operations, Richard Hellstern brings together his experience in finance, publishing, writing and producing to be an agile and effective head of daily operations for a growing company in a fast-changing music industry.
Hellstern got his start in music publishing and administration 14 years ago, after having spent 10 years in music production and performance. Previously at PEN Music Group, Inc., he has represented marquee catalogues like the Bob Marley estate and Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, artists including Olivia Newton John, Gina Schock of The Go-Go’s, and Don Felder of The Eagles, as well as platinum-selling copyrights by Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, Luther Vandross and many others.