Santa Maria Connect! SMVCC’s Emerging Professionals Network

Join us for our May Meeting of Santa Maria Connect!

Santa Maria Connect! SMVCC's Emerging Professionals Network is a forum that brings together the region's young business people 10 years or less into their professional career for mentoring, education, networking, and socializing.


 
This month's Guest Speaker: Natalie Edell , Music Executive at Grand Cru Entertainment  

Topic: 
So you think you failed? Think again  


About Natalie Edell 

Natalie Edell is an entrepreneur and music executive who started her journey in the music business at only 18 years old.  During her first year of college at Northwestern University, she signed one of her Artists to Interscope / Geffen Records. She was hooked and decided to pursue her own music venture called IndieU. IndieU was a music media company that gave students a platform to share their campus life and music scene while showcasing and integrating independent musicians into their colleges. Natalie also gained work experience inside the traditional industry ? ICM, Genuine Music Group and Virgin Records. After graduation, she continued working on her company full-time, raised half a million dollars and joined an entrepreneurship space in Westlake called Hub 101 as well as Science Inc., an accelerator and VC fund in Santa Monica. She worked on IndieU for five years until deciding to pursue new ventures 9 months ago.  Natalie is now at Grand Cru Entertainment, a music management, publishing and production company where she manages and develops Grammy winning and nominated Songwriters, Producers, Instrumentalists and Artists.  Grand Cru has 30+ Grammy nominations, 7 Grammy wins, 3 CLIO Awards winning Songwriters, and they have placed 150+ songs in major TV shows, movies, video games and more. 
 

https://www.grandcruentertainment.com/


This month's location : 

 2100 N. Broadway
Santa Maria, CA 93454
  
​**Light Appetizers and Refreshments will be provided. Drinks will be available for purchase**
 
Entrance Fee: $15.00
 
 RSVP by May 20th, 2018
 
Questions about Santa Maria Connect! Can be directed to Alex Magana, Events & Special Projects Manager at the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce: (805) 925-2403 x 814 or alex@santamaria.com