NMPA + Billboard Music Investor Dinner 2026: See the Photos
National Music Publishers’ Association leader David Israelite and Billboard once again cohosted a music investors dinner.
Black News 
Ahead of the fourth annual Music Investor Conference on Tuesday (June 9), National Music Publishers’ Association leader David Israelite and Billboard once again cohosted a music investors dinner on Monday night at Manhattan’s Estiatorio Milos Midtown, featuring lively conversations — about consolidation, artificial intelligence and pop trends, to name just a few topics — among some of the most prominent dealmakers in the music industry.
The NMPA president and CEO kicked off the evening with welcome remarks, nodding toward the union of publishers and investors in the room and the symbiotic relationship that they occupy as a means of keeping the music biz healthy. Israelite then ceded the floor to Billboard’s co-chief content officers, Leila Cobo and Jason Lipshutz, who addressed the room with remarks about the shared enthusiasm for music among different factions of the industry, and vitality of group discussions like the music investor dinner.
Along with Israelite, Cobo, Lipshutz and NMPA CLO & COO Danielle Aguirre, attendees of the dinner included UMPG leader Jody Gerson, Warner Chappell Music co-chairs Guy Moot and Carianne Marshall, Primary Wave founder/CEO Larry Mestel, Goldstate founder Charles Goldstuck, City National SVP Denise Colletta, Apollo managing director Paul Sipio, Peer Music executive chair and CEO Ralph Peer and Mary Megan Peer and Spirit Music chairman Jon Singer, among others.
The music investor dinner preceded the Music Investor Conference, held at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday. The NMPA Annual Meeting, being held on Wednesday (June 10), will boast performances by P!nk, Amber Mark, Carter Faith and more.
