Columbia Records
Karissa Keller has a diverse work experience in the music and entertainment industry. Karissa started their career at Columbia Records in 2015 as a Touring & Events Intern before working their way up to roles such as Touring & Events Assistant, Touring & Events Coordinator, and eventually Manager, Touring & Events. In these positions, they were responsible for administering ticket bundle campaigns, supervising and training new hires, and managing budget creation. Karissa also pitched potential partnership opportunities and provided executive services at shows.
Before their time at Columbia Records, Karissa worked as a Client Services Assistant at Bienstock & Michael, LLC, a full-service entertainment and intellectual property law firm. In this role, they managed client databases and administered royalty payments. Karissa also worked at Live Nation Entertainment as an Event Marketing Assistant (Seasonal) and gained experience in event marketing.
Karissa has also held positions as an Alumni Relations Graduate Assistant at William Paterson University, an Entertainment Bookings/Marketing Student Associate at The Madison Square Garden Company, a Music Recruiter at BroadbandTV Corp, a Featured Student Ambassador at Albright College, and a Public Programming Intern at Experience Music Project.
Overall, Karissa has a strong background in event management, artist relations, and marketing within the music and entertainment industry.
Karissa Keller completed their education with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Music Management from William Paterson University of New Jersey, which they attended from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration & Music Business with a focus on Marketing from Albright College, where they studied from 2009 to 2013. Their secondary education took place at Kentridge High School from 2005 to 2009, but no specific degree or field of study was mentioned.
Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American flagship recording label, under the ownership of Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Companyâsuccessor to the Volta Graphophone Company.[1] Columbia is the oldest brand name in recorded sound,[2][3] being the first record company to produce recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers, instrumentalists, and bands. From 1961 to 1990, its recordings were released outside the U.S. and Canada on the CBS Records label (for Columbia Broadcasting System, its parent from 1938 to 1988) before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world. It is one of Sony Music's three flagship record labels with the others being Epic Records and RCA Records. Until 1989, Columbia Records had no connection to Columbia Pictures, which used various other names for record labels they owned, including Colpix, Colgems, Bell and later Arista; rather, it was connected to CBS, which stood for Columbia Broadcasting System, a broadcasting media company which purchased Columbia Records in the late 1930s, and which had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista was sold to BMG, it would later become a sister label to Columbia Records through Sony Music; both are connected to Columbia Pictures through Sony Corporation of America, worldwide parent of both the music and motion picture arms of Sony. As of 2012, Columbia Records has the highest label share in Adult Contemporary radio in the US, it was also ranked the number-one AC label that year.