Mike Kopp has over 35 years of strategic management, marketing and communications expertise honed on the front lines of music, politics and business, with clients that have included artists, Members of Congress, publicly traded and privately held corporations, the NFL and the NBA, as well as numerous regional companies and institutions. A veteran of more than 250 political and civic campaigns on the national, state and local levels, he served as press secretary to former Vice President Al Gore for nearly a decade. He also served under Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen as Deputy Commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development.

In the music arena, Mike currently manages multi-platinum selling artist Ben Folds, serves on the President’s Council of Advisors for the Association Of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), on the Board of the North Carolina Music Office, on the Board of the Americana Music Association (AMA), is a member of the Recording Academy, and was the founding President of the Music Industry Coalition, Nashville’s first grass roots organization to serve as a voice for working music industry professionals on issues that impact our music heritage and culture.

As a longtime political and civic activist, he continues to advise political candidates and campaigns, is a founding member of Artists United For Change, served on the Arts Policy Committee for US President Biden’s 2020 Transition Team, and is on the Board of the National Arts Action Fund PAC which advocates for arts funding on the federal level.