Steven Ambers is the Director, International Business Development & Compliance at SOCAN.  In this role, he fosters U.S. publisher and key influencer relations and supports strategic investment opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions. With more than 25 years of experience in the music and entertainment royalty field, Ambers has performed and supervised royalty audits worldwide on behalf of licensors of intellectual properties (trademarks, brands, characters, patents, technology, data, and content), for recording artists, record companies, songwriters, music publishers, movie and television studios, producers, athletes, and clients in a variety of other industries.  Ambers’ experience also extends to the due diligence reviews of potential record company and music catalog acquisitions.  In 1999, Steven Co-Founded RoyaltyConsultants.com, a royalty tracking solution for monies due from downloaded intellectual property and the Royalty Review Council where he was credited with being one of the first to attempt to collect data about online sales of items ranging from music to videos in order to help copyright and trademark holders collect their entitled royalties.