Nikisha Bailey [Judge]

Executive Board, The Recording Academy, General Manager, Nvak Collective

About this speaker

Nikisha Bailey is a community-driven entrepreneur, entertainment executive, and philanthropist with a lifelong commitment to music. Professionally, the St. Louis native is General Manager of the Nvak Collective – a next generation record label & artist advocacy collective that embraces web3 to drive change for creators and intellectual property. The two-time Billboard R&B / Hip-Hop Power Player provides creative perspective to the company’s facilitation of A&R, marketing, and label operations across their diverse artist roster. Extending her influence throughout music and culture, she also serves as Vice President for The Recording Academy’s New York Chapter and an Ambassador for the Academy’s Black Music Collective (BMC). On the entrepreneurship front, Nikisha owns and operates Philadelphia's Win Win Coffee Bar – handpicked by Goldman Sachs as a featured vendor at its 10KSB National Summit and adding Nikisha to Forbes’ Next 1000.

Prior to the Nvak Collective, Nikisha was the VP / Head of A&R Admin at APG (Artist Partner Group) including additional stints at Atlantic Records and Def Jam Recordings working with acclaimed producers, studios, artists, and more. She now resides in New York and pushes herself to learn, grow, and pay it forward.

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Talks

First Round Project/Hackathon Presentations

February 26, 2023, 07:15 PM
Bo Plantinga Maria Habbouche Matteo Villa Zoe Heckmann Sheila Lim Hugh McIntyre Chris Poulos Kyran de Keijzer Nikisha Bailey Bryce Butler Veronique Peyrot Felix Barros Alexa Fanning Francisco Toscano Kewen Qi Alexandre Perrin Caroline Dring Meng Ru Kuok Faryal Khan-Thompson Natasha Stambuli Britnee Foreman Measure of Music Phil Christie Ashley Graham Pilar Callau Ashok Bania Gabriel Chemin Mark Williamson David Boyle David Teague Rose Rutledge