Ricki Askin
Ricki Askin is the Vice President of Music Services and Licensing for VICE Media, overseeing global rights and clearances for the youth media company as well as their in-house library, Vice Music Publishing. Within the realm of global rights and clearances sits music supervision and archival producing and licensing across the company’s vast portfolio of digital sites. Ricki was the Music Supervisor of the Emmy Award winning HBO news-magazine series “VICE,” which recently finished its 6th season. She also music supervised the documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” (Netflix) and the Emmy nominated VICELAND series “Gaycation” and “Woman with Gloria Steinem.”Outside of VICE, Ricki has recently music supervised Showtime’s documentary “100%” looking at the life and success of New England Patriots’ Julian Edelman as well as the independent film “EGG," which hit theaters January 2019 starring Alysia Reiner and Christina Hendricks.
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