October 6, 2009 – Quetone Music's Director of Promotions Dana Dane (also of M.O.B. Unit Management) spoke on Monday as a panelist in the  day-long, third annual Business of Hip-Hop Symposium at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. The acclaimed event provided students and other guests valuable insight spanning Hip-Hop's thirty-year impact in the record business while creating synergistic conversations about the future outlook for careers in Hip-Hop and the music industry overall.
Participating in the daytime panel, which focused on radio promotion, touring, and event promotion were longtime record industry professionals Divinah Payne-Shantefeire of Ten Talents NYC and Clifton Braithwaite of C-1 Entertainment. Students engaged in dialog about industry relationships, promotional campaign development, mentorship, entrepreneurial leadership, and artist development.
The day also included an interactive Hip-Hop in Education discussion with several faculty, staff, administration, and students faciliated by famed conductor and Berklee faculty member Isaiah Jackson; also of Rhythm, Rhyme, Results and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University.
The riveting evening panel that followed consisted of Tone Capone of Coalition Music Group/Universal/Motown, Shanti Das of Universal/Motown, Thembisa Mshaka of BET (author of Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [Entertainment] Business), music journalist and Hip-Hop activist Andreas Hale, Aftermath composer Dawaun Parker, and Berklee professor and former Bad Boy engineer and Virgin Records artist Prince Charles Alexander (who also teaches at the Clive Davis School at New York University). Industry veterans James Hawkins and High School Jamz founder Mike Trammel moderated, with a multifaceted approach that combined marketing, industry protocol, technology, independent and major-label operations, career pathways, and education.
Quetone Director of Operations Joe O'Grady, Quion of ChampionZ, and RGB also attended, and created opportunities to dialog with students, faculty, and staff.
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