Cindy Charles is currently consulting in the music licensing space. Until recently, she was Head of Business Development for Music, for Amazon Tickets where she was responsible for leading strategy and business development in connection with Amazon’s new business, offering concert tickets for sale. Charles was also Head of Business Development, Video Shorts at Amazon and licensed short form video content from studios, television networks, MCNs. labels and other short form content providers. Prior to that, she was handling business affairs and business development consulting in the digital media space for clients who have included Beats Music, Yahoo, Spotify, EchoNest, Nintendo, PopSugar and many others. Charles was General Counsel & SVP, Law and Business Affairs for MusicNet, an early digital music service owned by Warner Music Group, EMI, Bertelsmann and Real Network.  She also held a variety of positions for MTV Networks including VP of Law & Business Affairs for MTVi, was General Counsel for WarnerVision, and held legal positions at the Screen Actors Guild among various other law firms. She is the Co-Founder of Women in Digital Media, a networking group based in NY and San Francisco that has over 1500 members.