Jacquelle Amankonah Horton

Jacquelle is a 12-year music and entertainment industry executive. She was most recently a Product Manager at Google for YouTube driving 2/3 of the efforts the company selected as the "top innovation bets of 2018" for creators, and has now moved to the Google Assistant to lead intelligence efforts optimizing media and music through AI. Jacquelle has launched award-winning music apps, reinvented music distribution at major labels, and led operations at both music startups and corporations dealing with billion+ scale. Receiving her Master's degree in Law and Philosophy from USC at just 20 years old and named one of the World's Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs, Jacquelle has kept her avid and thriving entrepreneurial spirit, believing the best ideas only come alive with an unforgiving passion and a strong environment to cultivate it. She recently started the Global Music Innovators Collective, a professional network to empower, mentor, and fund the next generation of music and tech innovators.

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