Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
Irving Azoff is Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman and CEO of <strong>the</strong> Front Line<br />
Management Group, <strong>the</strong> world’s largest music management firm. He is <strong>the</strong> personal manager of <strong>the</strong> Eagles, who he has<br />
managed since 1974, along with Christina Aguilera, Neil Diamond, Van Halen and Steely Dan. Azoff also founded Full<br />
Moon Records, home to <strong>the</strong> soundtracks of Azoff-produced motion pictures including “Urban Cowboy” and “Fast Times<br />
at Ridgemont High.” In <strong>the</strong> 1990s, he founded <strong>the</strong> Azoff Entertainment Company, a joint venture with Time Warner (in<br />
2001, Time Warner acquired his interest in <strong>the</strong> company). In 1983, Azoff was named chairman and CEO of <strong>the</strong> MCA<br />
Music Entertainment Group, which he revitalized into an industry powerhouse, setting sales and earnings records<br />
while diversifying into concert promotion, amphi<strong>the</strong>ater operations and merchandising. In 2008, Azoff was named <strong>the</strong><br />
Advertising Age “Marketer of <strong>the</strong> Year” and Pollstar magazine’s “Personal Manager of <strong>the</strong> Year.”<br />
Joseph Azrack, <strong>the</strong> Managing Partner of Real Estate for Apollo Global Management, has 30 years’ experience<br />
in real estate investment management. Prior to joining Apollo, he was president and CEO of Citi Property Investors<br />
(CPI), chairing <strong>the</strong> firm’s Management and Investment committees, and guiding investment policy and strategy. He<br />
was also a member of <strong>the</strong> Citigroup Alternative Investments Management Committee and Investment Committee,<br />
and a member of Citi Infrastructure Investment Committee. Prior to joining CPI, he was CEO and chairman of AEW<br />
Capital Management LP and founder and president of <strong>the</strong> AEW Partners Funds; a director of Curzon Global Partners;<br />
and founder and chairman of IXIS AEW Europe. Azrack is a past adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate<br />
School of Business, where he is a member of, and for many years chaired, <strong>the</strong> Real Estate Program Advisory Board. He<br />
holds a B.S. from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.<br />
Steve Baffico is a Senior Managing Director at Claymore Securities, a Guggenheim company, and is Head of U.S.<br />
Retail Distribution for <strong>the</strong> firm. Within <strong>the</strong> Private Client Group, he oversees areas including sales, marketing, product,<br />
key accounts, business analytics, product specialists, strategic initiatives and support teams for intermediary-sold<br />
investments. Guggenheim–Claymore’s Private Client assets total more than $15 billion across exchange-traded, unit<br />
trust, and closed-end funds and strategic investments encompassing nearly 100 offerings. Prior to Guggenheim,<br />
Baffico was an executive with BlackRock for more than 10 years, serving in various senior leadership capacities across<br />
sales, sales management, investment banking and strategy. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and political<br />
science from <strong>the</strong> University of Wisconsin-Madison.<br />
Deepika Bajaj is Founder and President of Invincibelle, a company empowering women and a diverse,<br />
multigenerational work force to thrive in a multicultural world. Prior to starting her company, Bajaj spent more than eight<br />
years in telecommunications consulting and corporate marketing. She has served on <strong>the</strong> board of various professional<br />
organizations, including <strong>the</strong> National Society of Hispanic MBAs and Women in Intel. The author of DiversityTweet:<br />
Embracing <strong>the</strong> Growing Diversity in Our World, she is at work on a second book about her experiences as a global citizen<br />
and what is shaping <strong>the</strong> new voice of diversity. She speaks and consults on diversity, blogs at www.deepikabajaj.com<br />
and writes a column on social media for ActiveGarage. Bajaj received a bachelor’s degree from Bangalore University in<br />
India and an M.B.A. in marketing from Fordham University in New York.<br />
Shawn Baldwin is Chairman of Capital Management Group, an investment advisory firm. CMG provides advisory/<br />
investment banking services to institutions. Since 2002, it has participated in 75 capital markets transactions for more<br />
than $68 billion. CMG has built a global network via its economic conferences of academics and institutional investors.<br />
Baldwin was previously chief operating officer of a publicly traded registered investment advisory. He also worked<br />
for American Express and US Bank. The second African-American member of <strong>the</strong> Chicago Stock Exchange, Baldwin is<br />
a member of <strong>the</strong> CFA <strong>Institute</strong> for chartered financial analysts. He has been featured in The Economist, BusinessWeek,<br />
Forbes, Fortune, Investment Dealer’s Digest and Money magazine. He is also a commentator for Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC,<br />
NBC and CBS. Baldwin received a master’s degree in financial strategy from <strong>the</strong> University of Oxford and a bachelor’s<br />
degree from Antioch University.<br />
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