Jake Wisely is a partner and CEO of The Bicycle Music Company, the Association of Independent Music Publishers 2013 Independent Publisher of the Year.

Wisely was instrumental in the acquisition and funding of Bicycle in 2005, which had been a privately owned business, established in 1974. Since then, he has helped to usher the company into a new age, overseeing the creative operations, business affairs, licensing and administration of an ever-expanding catalog of evergreen songs and recordings, spanning all genres and eras, along with rights in musical theater, name and likeness, books, trademarks and merchandise. He also oversees the music publishing and licensing operations of the Concord Music Group, Bicycle's sister company since 2013.

Prior to Bicycle, Wisely was Director of Membership and managed the Midwest membership office of ASCAP in Chicago and has worked in the west coast creative departments of both EMI Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing.

VP Writer/Publisher Relations SESAC, the music rights organization, working closely with SESAC’s roster of songwriters from the up and coming to the established professional offering career support, publishing education, industry intros and setting up collaborations. She produces events such as networking mixers, business panels and SESAC’s annual Jazz Awards and Pop Awards shows which honor the top songwriters and publishers.
As a fierce advocate for songwriters and artists, championing any effort to help secure their livelihood, she has lobbied in New York and in Washington DC on behalf of music creators. She helped form NYC3 (NYC Creative Community) with a group of concerned professionals in an effort to keep NY’s creative community thriving. As music creators seek other states to produce their music due to lower costs and enticing tax incentives, NYC3 along with SESAC and sixty other music businesses joined the “NY is Music” coalition to advocate for a music production tax credit in NY. A journey that continues…

Linda is a National Trustee for The Recording Academy (Grammys), is former president of the NY Chapter, serves on the Board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is a former president of Women In Music. She was recognized in Billboard’s Women in Music 2014 issue. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.