Michael Huppe is responsible for establishing the long-term strategic plan and vision for the music industry’s most promising organization. SoundExchange is responsible for overseeing and distributing royalties to recording artists and record labels from the country’s most popular digital radio services (such as Pandora and SiriusXM). Those royalties make up nearly half of all streaming revenue in the United States. As SoundExchange President and CEO, Michael takes a passionate approach in directing the organization’s mission of supporting and protecting the long-term value of music world-wide. His optimism helped to place SoundExchange among Forbes Magazine’s “Top Names You Need to Know for 2011.”

Mike is an executive committee member of the musicFIRST coalition. He also serves on the board of directors of Leadership Music in Nashville, and The Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights (an international organization of performer societies). He is an active member of The Recording Academy, The Copyright Society, The American Bar Association, The American Intellectual Property Law Association and The Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.

Michael received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia (Honors Government and Foreign Affairs Program; Phi Beta Kappa scholar), and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he teaches a seminar on music law, the history of the music industry and advanced copyright law.

He resides in the Washington, DC metro area with his wife, two children and two dogs.