John Raso is the Vice President, Client Services for HFA. In his role, Raso oversees HFA’s Client Services team of agents who provide support to thousands of HFA affiliated publishers. He is also part of the team leadership that supports clients including Spotify and Google/YouTube.

Prior to joining HFA, Raso was the Director, Product Management at Live Nation Artists, where he constructed artist recording deals as part of defining strategies and P&L projections for Live Nation’s “360” artist deals.

Previous to his work at Live Nation, Raso spent six years as Manager, Media & Entertainment: Music Segment at BearingPoint, where he designed, developed and implemented systems and web interfaces for international music publishing and content licensing organizations including ASCAP and HFA. Raso also has over ten years’ experience at record labels, including Velvel, Atlantic, Arista, MCA, Roadrunner and SST.

Chris serves as Manager, Music Partnerships for YouTube with a focus on the independent music publishing community. Prior to joining YouTube, Chris was the Director of Marketing at Google-acquired RightsFlow, where he drove online interaction for the company’s consumer-facing music licensing service, Limelight. Previously, Chris served as Director of Lifestyle Marketing and Web Services for The Orchard (a leading digital distributor of independent music content). Chris received an M.A. in Music Business at New York University and a B.S. in Sound Recording Technology at Duquesne University.