ole Builds Nashville Admin Presence With Kele Currier

As Kele Currier moves into her new position of as Director of Administration at ole working out of the Nashville office, she spent some time at ole's Toronto office in mid-February to meet the team with whom she will be working closely on all administration matters. In her pivotal role, Currier will specialize in managing ole's Nashville-based catalogs; serve as the admin client representative for ole's ever-growing roster of country music writers, and actively seek out clients among the self-published Nashville songwriter community.

"Kele's wealth of contacts and administration experience gives ole an even deeper connection to the Nashville music community and is further evidence of ole's commitment to super serve country music songwriters. This move also provides us with an expert administration presence in the U.S. market", says ole's President, Michael McCarty.

ole has established itself as a globally active company providing expert, transparent worldwide administration services to global clients that include Cookie Jar, Nelvana, PorchLight Entertainment, Peace Arch Entertainment, Studio B, the National Film Board of Canada, WGBH, CCI, Cineflix, Scholastic, Random House and many others. ole is also the administrator for over 35,000 hours of film and TV music.

Currier's impressive resume includes her most recent position as EVP of Administration for Big Loud Bucks in Nashville, as well as roles with Integrated Copyright Group, Opryland Music, Maypop Music and SESAC. Her music education background includes Belmont University, Millikin University, as well as an ongoing membership in the Copyright Society of the South.

"I was in Toronto for a week of intensive training and had a chance to get to know the well-seasoned staff there," Currier notes. "Everybody is so dedicated and very interested in finding the 'whys' behind the reason properties act as they do as far as income is concerned. I've noticed that the staff really drills down to find information - like 'why does ASCAP pay as they do?' I think it's very important to be able to go back to a song or property owner and say this is the 'why' and educate them."

Currier is passionate about spreading the word on what ole can do for independent publishing companies and songwriters with growing catalogs who have no affiliation with an established music publisher. "Some independents are just independent because they can be and they don't understand the administration behind all of it. That can work against them when they get that royalty check and find that it's not everything that it could be; they can leave money on the table just by not knowing what they don't know. It's all about monetizing because, once you get a cut, it's important that you monetize that to the best of its ability especially these days with mechanicals really diminishing. You have to make sure you have complete accountings and you are getting all of the income types that you can possibly get. That takes seasoning and expertise and, boy, they sure have that here."

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