Hunter Williams

Hunter Williams is celebrating 25 years of distinguished experience in management and executive positions at leading music organizations. He spent 20 years at performing rights organization, SESAC, culminating in his role as Senior Vice President, Strategic Development/Distribution and Research Oper ations. During this time, Williams ran all royalty distribution operations and was responsible for the development of the company’s royalty distribution and survey methodologies, performance tracking across all media, and the oversight of the organization’s song repertory and cue sheet databases. He also directed the company’s research and analysis division, which helped drive strategic development by identifying new business opportunities. Under Williams’ leadership, SESAC pioneered the use of digital audio-recognition technologies to track and pay royalties for performances on radio, television, and new media. After leaving SESAC, he served as Executive Director of the Production Music Association, the non-profit trade organization representing approximately 700 production music libraries. Currently, he is Executive Vice President, IP and Business Development at SourceAudio, the leading music hosting and delivery platform for the B2B music licensing space. Williams is an experienced speaker, panelist, and presenter at various industry events, trade conferences, and higher-learning institutions, while also remaining active as a professional musician and composer. His latest venture is 21st music licensing and administration company, Move Music LLC, with his partner and composer extraordinaire, Timothy Andrew Edwards.