JIM HENKE is the vice president of exhibitions and curatorial affairs at the Rock Hall and has been an essential component in the success of the Museum since its conception. Prior to coming to the Museum, Henke was a writer and editor for Rolling Stone magazine for fifteen years, and he was the VP of product development at Elektra Records. Henke has also published biographies on John Lennon, Bob Marley and Jim Morrison.

Holly George-Warren is an award-winning writer, editor, producer, and music consultant. She is the author of more than a dozen books, ranging from a biography of singing cowboy Gene Autry to a photographic history of punk. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, the VIllage Voice, and many other publications. As editorial director of Rolling Stone Press from 1993 to 2001, she oversaw the creation of 40 books on popular music, including The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. She teaches at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and at the State University of New York in New Paltz. She serves as Codirector of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives Oral History program. She is currently writing a biography of Alex Chilton to be published by Viking in 2013.

In music business legend SEYMOUR STEIN's lifelong adventure with rock & roll, he has been prominently engaged in wave after wave of popular music's successive cycles of taste, from the Brill Building sound of the 1960s through to his wholesale signing of New York punk luminaries like the Ramones and the Talking Heads in the 1970s, and a little later, Madonna and the Pretenders, right up until today with bands like the Von Bondies. His ability to divine what's great in each new generation of music has made Stein one of the rare record company men whose appreciation and approbation is sought not only as a means to a career and money, but also as an artistic accolade. His label, Sire, is a crucial example of the evolution of an American indie.