RUTA SEPETYS

As President and founder of Sepetys Entertainment Group, Inc., Ruta Sepetys devotes herself to creating and implementing artist development and growth strategies for her clients. The artist management firm now enters its tenth year in business and represents a stylistically diverse stable of established artists and talented newcomers. The current roster includes Grammy award winning guitarist Steve Vai , multi-platinum modern rock chart-toppers LIT, blues/rock phenom Eric Sardinas and film/television composer Niels Bye Nielsen. Ruta is responsible for coordinating and organizing her artists' album productions, world tours, television appearances, publishing ventures and music videos.

Ruta was recently featured in Rolling Stone magazine’s “Women in Rock” issue and described as a “rare breed” of manager who first and foremost stands by her artists . “This is an exciting time in the music industry. Artists and managers now have the opportunity to be directly involved not only with the development and marketing of their music, but the distribution and delivery as well. The music business as we’ve known it is on the verge of collapsing face first like a suffocating giant. Change, however, brings opportunity. New artists have the chance to become part of the new fabric that’s being woven as we speak. It’s exciting.”

Prior to establishing her own company, Ruta spent four years as West Coast Manager of C. Winston Simone Management/Deston Songs, an artist management and publishing firm based in New York and Miami. The firm handled the careers of world renown artists and producers such as Desmond Child (Ricky Martin, the Baha
Men, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith), Joe Jackson, Michael Beinhorn and others . Ruta received a BS in International Finance from Hillsdale College and a Masters in International Management from ICN in Nancy, France. She is a repeat lecturer at many schools and colleges across the country.

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