Mike Kopp

Mike Kopp has over 35 years of strategic management, marketing and communications

expertise honed on the front lines of music, politics and business, with clients that have

included artists, Members of Congress, publicly traded and privately held corporations, the NFL

and the NBA, as well as numerous regional companies and institutions. A veteran of more than

250 political and civic campaigns on the national, state and local levels, he served as press

secretary to former Vice President Al Gore for nearly a decade. He also served under Tennessee

Governor Phil Bredesen as Deputy Commissioner of the state Department of Economic and

Community Development.

In the music arena, Mike currently manages multi-platinum selling artist Ben Folds, serves on

the President’s Council of Advisors for the Association Of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP)

on the Board of the Americana Music Association (AMA), is a member of the Recording

Academy, and was the founding President of the Music Industry Coalition, Nashville’s first grass

roots organization to serve as a voice for working music industry professionals on issues that

impact our music heritage and culture.

As a political and civic activist, he continues to advise political candidates and campaigns,

served on the Arts Policy Committee for US President Biden’s 2020 Transition Team, and is on

the Board of the national Arts Action Fund which advocates for arts funding on the federal

level.