Berklee's Music Business/Management Department, currently the largest major at the world's leading music college, presented the Second Annual Entrepreneurs Panel at Berklee College of Music last week.
The panelists included Wayne Inouye, CEO & President, Gateway Computers, the third largest PC company in the U.S. and in the top ten worldwide; Fred Bramante, Founder & President, Daddy’s Junky Music, one of the largest musical products company in the country; John C. Koss, Sr., Founder and Chairman
of the Board, Koss Corporation, a major consumer electronics company ranking
as a world leader in the manufacture of high fidelity stereophones; and Jim
D’Addario, President, J. D’Addario & Co., a family owned instrument
string manufacturing business that employs people on five continents.
Martin Dennehy, associate professor of music business, moderated a lively discussion
by the top entrepreneurs. Topics included the ins and outs of starting and growing
a business, the importance of human resources, the challenges inherent to being
a publicly traded versus privately held company, and qualities necessary to
be a good leader.
The panelists also offered advice to the audience of Berklee students on what
attributes executives look for in potential employees.
l-r. Jim D'Addario, John C. Koss, Sr., Wayne Inouye. Here Koss
recalls explaining the workings of the prototype for his first
stereophone.
