Tom Sturges is the former executive vice president and head of Creative for Universal Music Publishing Group, where he was responsible for the continuing career development of musicians such as the Foo Fighters, Three Doors Down, 50 Cent, Jack Johnson, and Vanessa Carlton.

 

Having spent over 25 years as a senior executive in the music industry, Tom has also served as President of Chrysalis Music and VP/GM of Shaquille O’Neal’s imprint TWIsM Records. During his tenure in the music business,Tom has signed numerous hit writers/producers including Mark Batson, Troy Taylor, Sean Garrett and Jason Epperson (aka Jay-E) among many others. Selling a combined 175M albums, 26M singles and 18M downloads, the writers and artists signed by Tom have written fourteen, #1 singles and have received twelve Grammy awards. Tom is a voting member of the National Association for the Recording Arts and Sciences, a member of their Board of Directors, and the President of the Los Angeles chapter. 

 

Currently a writer, speaker, and teacher, Tom co-created and teaches “The Music Business Now” program at UCLA with fellow professors Jeff Jampol, Steve Berman and Lenny Beer. The class, part of the Music Business minor, has been running for over 10 years at the university.