Our Board of Advisors

With over 25 years of management and production experience in the entertainment industry, Keith Garde is an invaluable asset to the MusicIDB Board of Advisers.  Among his successes, Mr. Garde was Aerosmith’s Co-Manager from ’88 to ’95, and was one of the early pioneers in leveraging the Internet for entertainment entities, utilizing it for the digital distribution of artists’ content and intellectual property.

In 1995, Keith Garde founded PKA Management, a Boston-based firm that manages national talent, manages video production and provides consulting services. Mr. Garde has collaborated on special projects for MTV, VH1, A&E, ESPN, NFL, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Daimler-Chrysler, multiple record labels and many other major corporations and artists. He also serves as special projects manager for MusicIDB CEO Brian Bahia’s favorite band, Aerosmith.

TiE Group Mentor and Internet / Tech Startup Advisor.   CEO & Founder of ZipperAgent.  Offering technical team members and guidance.

Angel Investor with Converge Venture Partners, Serial Entrepreneur.  Providing valuable tech startup leadership and business model advice

Most Boston-area musicians know legendary Shred by reputation, if not personally.  He has spent the better part of almost 30 years investing in, and building up the Boston music scene.   He’s also been the man behind the shows for dozens of hot rock clubs from The Middle East to Oliver’s Nightclub at Cask’n Flagon.

Whether you met him as a DJ at the Paradise Rock Club or listened to him on the radio at WFNX & WBCN, there’s a good chance that Shred has influenced the music that’s entered your sphere on a very personal level.  As Local Music Director and on-air personality at the legendary Boston rock radio station WFNX, Shred hosted the annual band competition, Rock & Roll Rumble that spawned nationally acclaimed winners Dresden Dolls, Bleu, The Sheila Divine, Darkbuster and Township.

MusicIDB is excited to welcome Shred Boston to our prestigious Board of Advisers.

Richard Berger is entrepreneur, educator, business strategist, attorney and musician. Creativity, drive and a focus to serve are the qualities that he brings to every aspect of business and personal affairs.

Richard Berger’s law practice is concentrated in the areas of general counsel services, entertainment law, consumer protection and estate planning. Berger’s business strategy practice is focused on business planning, negotiating deals, and raising investment for start-up and emerging companies. For five years he has taught publishing and copyright and entrepreneurship at UMASS Lowell to wonderful & gifted students.

Richard continues to grow as a musician and for the past three years has been writing and recording his debut album which will be titled “Holding a Candle.”  He is also in the midst of developing a number of business plans to launch one or more new companies in the upcoming year.