Dr. Portia Sabin is President of the Music Business Association. While working on her PhD at Columbia University, she played drums, recorded and toured with New York band The Hissyfits. She founded Shotclock Management in 2004 and ran the legendary independent label Kill Rock Stars for 13 years. She hosts a music industry podcast called The Future of What. Sabin is a former board member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy, the RIAA and the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), and currently serves on the advisory boards of NIVA and VevaCollect.