Roy Elkins, President
Roy Elkins is a well-known music technology entrepreneur who has been leading industry innovations for over twenty years. Elkins is the Founder and CEO of Broadjam Inc., serving independent musicians and industry giants such as the Academy of Country Music, Warner/Chappell, Peavey and others. Broadjam.com, the company’s popular independent website now hosts over 100,000 artists with over 450,000 songs uploaded to its massive online searchable database. The site is known for its musician-friendly services, including music licensing opportunities to film, tv, radio and advertisers, website hosting, artist profiles, reviews, contests, transmit mechanism, charts, download sales and more. Before founding Broadjam, Elkins was the Vice President-Sales & Marketing for Sonic Foundry and held several Director-level positions with Ensoniq Corporation. He maintains a database of over 5,000 music industry contacts including executives at virtually every company in the music industry and past and/or present clients such as Les Paul, D.J. Jazzy Jeff, the Beach Boys, the Allman Brothers, BoyzIIMen, Joe Walsh, ELP, Yes, Journey, Skid Row, Randy Jackson, Will Smith and many others. He is a musician and songwriter who thoroughly understands the musician’s world.

Ralph Cohen, Vice-President
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Matt Jacoby, Secretary
Matt has been playing drums for the last 16 years, recently wrapping up his latest venture as the drummer for local R&B artist Felicia Alima. He also was the original drummer for local Stevens Point-based rock group Planet of 9. Matt is very involved with the business side of the Madison music scene, having co-founded the Local Sounds organization with Rick Tvedt in the hopes of bringing change and more structure to the local music community. Matt has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and works as a web user interface designer by day. He currently serves on the MAMA Board of Directors as the secretary and web administrator.

Rick Tvedt, Treasurer
(bio and photo coming soon)

Valerie Wulf
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Jesse Russell
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Grant Billings
Grant Billings has been fascinated with pianos since he first started going to work with is father at age seven. Following in his family’s footsteps, he began his entertainer career in high school; first as a keyboard player, then as a mobile disc jockey.

Grant studied business in college, worked at his family’s piano stores, and was a District Sales Manager for one of the world’s largest piano manufacturers. A strong advocate of music education, he founded the Steinway Society’s Annual Young Artist Piano Competition in 2000 and continues to speak before teachers, parents and legislators around the country.

In 2004, Grant became the first person to earn two Masters degrees from William Steinway University, the industry’s most demanding business and product education program. He also served as Chapter President for the Interior Design Society.

He currently serves as Executive Director of the Steinway Piano Society of Madison and on the Board of Directors of Rhapsody Arts Center and the Madison Area Music Association (MAMA). In his spare time, Grant enjoys spending time with his family, reading, losing golf balls and, of course, making music.

Ankur Malhotra
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Beth Kille
Beth Kille has been on the Madison music scene for nearly 10 years. Prior to launching her solo career in 2008, she fronted 7-time Madison Area Music Award winning band Clear Blue Betty. Kille coordinates many activities to help area performing songwriters, including co-coordinating the Madison Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, hosting Madison’s Chick Singer Night and volunteering at Madison West High School to coordinate a Songwriting Club.

Jason “Clownboy” Freel
Jason “Clownboy” Freel, a graduate of Madison Area Technical College, has been an active supporter of the local music scene since 2004 when he started the WI BANDS TOUR, a tour designed to see local bands on a regular basis and to do a review on them. To date over 100 bands have been reviewed by Clownboy. Clownboy has also organized bus tours designed to expose people to different bands and venues in the area. Playing drums since 1983, Clownboy has played with some of the areas top musicians such as John Masino and Beth Kille, as well as playing with his current band PART-TIME CARNIES. Clownboy is currently working on starting his own TV show about the local music scene.