Speakers
- Robert Holmes
Robert E Holmes (“Bob”) joined Motown Records as its Associate Counsel in 1971 as Motown was relocating to Hollywood to enter the worlds of motion picture and television productions. He was recruited by the company to be its in-house Motion Picture and Television Counsel. Holmes spent the next seven years involved in all aspects of Motown’s endeavors before leaving the company in 1978 to join the Arista Music Publishing Group as its Vice President, and thereafter Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment as their Executive Vice President of their music groups and President of their worldwide music publishing companies. Holmes, who is a graduate of NYU’s Washington Square College and the NYU School of Law, served on the Undergraduate College’s Board of Overseers for the Faculty of Arts and Science for 12 years, and presently serves as an advisory board member of NYU’s Africa House. He has lectured widely on music, entertainment, law and business issues at colleges and universities throughout the United States.