Mike Kopp has over 35 years of strategic management, marketing and communications expertise honed on the front lines of music, politics and business, with clients that have included artists, Members of Congress, publicly traded and privately held corporations, as well as numerous regional companies and institutions.
In the music arena, Mike manages multi-platinum selling artist Ben Folds, serves on the President’s Council of Advisors for the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), on the Board of the North Carolina Music Office, on the Board of the Americana Music Association (AMA), is a member of the Recording Academy, and was the founding President of the Music Industry Coalition.
As a longtime political and civic activist, he is a founding member of Artists United For Change, served on the Arts Policy Committee for US President Biden’s 2020 Transition Team, and is on the Board of the Arts Action Fund which advocates for arts funding on the federal level.