Paul Rogers

Payment system solutions for the Entertainment sector specializing Film and TV production. Purchasing cards and monetized payables as a service. Custom built online web services offering controls, live reporting, expense management and digital remote payables servicing to productions. Launched in 2012 as a true start up, CASHét now has worked on over 6,000 features and television series including work with all OTT streaming services, all major studios, the 4 Networks and most large cable production companies. Total spend on our credit cards is now over $3 Billion. Annual card spend is now over $1 Billion. Annual Payables handled by CASHet is over $1 Billion. Current role is to manage all business operations and systematically scale and adapt that structure from profitability to exit. From financial planning, sales and marketing, IT development and product offering, my role is to oversee the continued growth of the business towards exit for the partners.

Oversaw development and growth of the company from start up through profitability. Responsible for all aspects of operations, sales, marketing, IT infrastructure and strategic partnerships.

Wrote and executed the business plan for the investors. Responsible for all facets of understanding and launching and growing the business. This includes researching partners, products and team members and executing on the planning as a true start up. Budgeting, Sales, Marketing planning, developing new systems to interact with our financial card issuer. Hiring and overseeing staff build out. Developing strategies to integrate new products in the production space. Bottom line profitability responsibility to investors.

RithmPay is a joint venture between CASHet Card and City National Bank to service the entertainment business management community with monetized electronic payment solutions as well as developing a live touring credit card with specific tour expense management capabilities. Building on the success of CASHet's now standard use in the film and television production industries in North America.

Business development for global brand entertainment marketing solutions. Sourcing and creating content for Brand initiatives globally. (Music, Films, Games, Books, Interactive) Overseeing both the content and the platform build outs for each custom delivery to private network, direct to consumer or public facing DMS solutions. Acting as a Brand Music Supervisor.

Sourced content on a global basis for Brand marketing campaigns

TourSavant was a tech start up created to help independent bands get to their fans. We pioneered an auto tour router technology as well as loadable credit cards with Comdata, Inc. for parents and managers to fund touring costs while bands were on the road. Some nascent technology at the time like "text to gig" was developed to allow clubs to find TourSavant bands on the road in their area to show up for immediate gigs to fill in for no show bands. The beta version had over 200 bands using the site and was ready for launch when the capital markets melt down shut off our funding and aborted the full launch of the site and company.

co-founded their music and audiovisual rights collection business in 1998. Went from a tru one-man start up to over $30 million annual collections in 10 years. Was also heavily involved in the Artist Performing Rights collections start up while there.

Planned and oversaw start up of a mult-million dollar record/publishing entity's royalty and licensing system using Right Track software, and writing custom reports for clients management needs. Maintain relationships with heads of major indepdendent film companies such as Lions Gate, Summit, Spyglass, Yari, Weinstein, Sidney Kimmel, Hyde Park and others. Saved clients over $50,000 in publishing administration and acquisition deals with pre-deal royalty projections. Directed audits of major European music rights societies on behalf of US Publishers and societies, resulting in the recovery of over $ 15 million in missing publisher royalties alone over 3 years. Maintained personal relationships with the directors of international music rights societies including SACEM, SIAE, SGAE,PRS, MCPS, GEMA and APRA which facilitated negotiations and trouble shooting on behalf of film music. Utilized skills in French, Italian, Spanish and German to analyze foreign copyright documents for incorporation into developing computer systems to maximize film music royalties. Supervised and streamlined operations of 6 subsidiary publishing companies located throughout Europe realizing overhead reductions of 35%. Helped establish royalty calculation system for film music which was implemented in 2 performing rights societies resulting in payment of over $ 1million in previously unallocated income. CREATIVE / PROFESSIONAL Signed as a writer to 2 major publishing companies (BMG & Warner Chappell). Featured on BMG publishing compilation disc with Eric Clapton's "Change the World" and others. Worked directly with music department heads of ABC TV, CBS TV, EM TV Germany and others Discovered and developed 2 artists that were selected by independent recording labels for release resulting in first income for artists. Wrote songs recorded by major artists on labels such as EPIC, CBS

Signed to BMG Careers music as a writer. Had several cuts by national artists. Toured with former front man for the rock group Kansas during this time.