Mr. Huppe is responsible for overseeing all legal, regulatory, legislative and corporate issues for SoundExchange. In recent years, he has directed SoundExchange’s strategy for various rate-setting proceedings, including those which set new rates and terms for webcasting and satellite radio services. With more than ten years experience working on intellectual property matters, he has helped develop industry reaction and strategy (both political and legal) to the fastest growing sector of the music industry. Mr. Huppe is responsible for implementing regulations that apply to SoundExchange, the sole Collective designated by the U.S. Copyright Office for the collection of performance royalties in digital media. His department also interacts with international performance rights organizations to obtain foreign performance royalties for SoundExchange members, and addresses enforcement issues for domestic services that fail to comply with their legal obligations. He is a spokesman for SoundExchange in the courts, on Capitol Hill and in the press and thus represents an extremely broad coalition of music industry participants, including featured artists, musicians, managers, unions, major and independent record labels, and sound recording owners of all sizes. Prior to joining SoundExchange, Mr. Huppe was Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and Deputy General Counsel with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) where he was involved in protecting the rights of the RIAA's member recording labels and their artists, in both digital and physical media. He had primary responsibility for industry licensing issues, including assessment of new digital products and services, and helping to determine industry responses to new services. He also assisted with legislative and international issues facing the recording industry, including work with the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and other federal agencies, as well as state attorneys general. He participated in various copyright litigations undertaken by the RIAA, including several cases of first impression regarding digital copyrights. Earlier in his tenure at RIAA, Mr. Huppe assisted in oversight and management of the RIAA’s premier anti-piracy unit, developing policy and programmatic enforcement plans to address the growing challenges presented by an increasingly digital economy. Mr. Huppe received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, and his JD from Harvard Law School. He clerked for The Hon. Leonie M. Brinkema in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. While there, he was involved in numerous intellectual property cases, including a watershed case relating to copyrights on the Internet (Religious Technology Center v. Lerma). Following the clerkship he was a litigation attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. Mr. Huppe is admitted to the bars of Virginia and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Copyright Society, the Recording Academy, and the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. He is also a past member of the Board of Governors for the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia bar. He has guest lectured on a variety of issues at Georgetown Law School, George Washington School of Law, and George Mason Law School. In the past he has also been a certified instructor with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, teaching a course on Intellectual Property Crimes.