Jess Furman

Named one of Billboard Magazine’s Top-40 Industry Shaping Executives of 2020, Jess is a creative strategist with a proven track record in fresh perspective big-picture ideation and effective goal implementation - spanning across multiple sectors including film, music, business & non-profit.

Within 2 years of establishing her custom house, Sound Revolver’s projects went on to win a Telly Award, Clio Award and have gone RIAA Certified Gold. In addition to working on Oscar Academy-Award winning campaigns within Film, Jess assisted in overseeing the transition of production and operations at BuzzFeed Motion Pictures as they reorganized following a 250 Million dollar investment by NBC Universal.

In her SVP role for Big Noise Music Group, Jess established and launched a licensing division, growing sales 2-3x from start up to year 2 with gross negotiated licenses slated hit 1M by end of 2020.

A staunch advocate for creatives, as the youngest board member of SONA (Songwriters of North America), Jess assisted in restructuring the organization, which tripled its donations received and increased programming offered by 5x just the following year. Amidst the COVID-19 shutdown, Jess co-founded and oversaw the roll out for a SONA grant program for songwriters, which will have given out over 400K in financial aid to songwriters by fall of 2020 via major donations from SONY/ATV, Spotify and Amazon.