Rob Schwartz (WHO?MAG / ACX1 Studios / DISTRO FEST)
Rob Schwartz is a music industry vet who spent his life in music industry covering music distribution, music television, sync licensing, creating music festivals and conferences, and speaking all over the world. Rob is also the Governor for the Recording Academy (Grammy’s) for the Philadelphia Chapter as well as a voting member for 12 years.
He is the Co-Founder and Chief Music Officer for ACX1 Studios in Atlantic City, NJ. ACX1 Studios was a 4-story 550,000 sq. foot mall (Caesar’s Pier) which Rob and his team converted into a humongous movie production lot, a large music incubator, and live event space. Inside ACX1 Studios, Rob is the Music Director of the first radio station on the Atlantic City Boardwalk (Splash 98.5 FM). He also has produced many music events with over 200 performers and over 125 major industry speakers.
Rob has been a mentor for Grammy U for 5 years. He is also a member of the Guild of Music Supervisors and advisor for Rowan College (RCBC) and Atlantic City Cape College.
Rob owns WHO?MAG Distribution, a music distribution company which has over 350 sub-labels, 1,000 artists, and 20,000 songs including a Grammy Award Winning album. He also owns 3 music TV networks (WHO?MAG Multimedia, iFame TV, and Video Vision) and was the 1st network to air urban music on OTT’s (on Roku in 2012).
Rob is also the owner/founder of ‘Distro Fest’ music festival and conference (www.distrofest.com). Distro Fest is entering their 4th year and had some of the top music industry speakers as well as many top tier performers. He is also the co-founder of ‘PLAY Music Conference’ in Philadelphia plus created the first music distribution NFT line called “The WHOMEEZ”.
Rob is also a multiple award-winning film director, producer, and music supervisor. He has worked on 23 different movies and TV show as a music supervisor and other roles. Rob won the Pocono Film Festival for “Best Documentary” with his “WHO?MAG Hip Hop Document”. He has also produced and directed almost 200 30-minute music TV shows between WHO?MAG TV, DMTV, Video Vision, and Dancin’ On Air (reboot on FUSE TV) which have over 3,000 combined interviews ranging from hip hop, EDM, pop, and music execs.
As a music industry advocate, Rob has also spoken all over the world including Seoul (South Korea), Kent (UK), Rome (Italy), Toronto (Canada), Barcelona (Spain), Sofia (Bulgaria), SXSW, Tulsa Music Awards, many Universities, music conferences, film festivals, and all over the US.
