RYAN BUTLER

Ryan Butler serves as Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the Recording Academy® and its affiliates. He is responsible for enterprise-wide efforts and ensuring the Academy's core value of diversity, equity and inclusion remains embedded throughout all aspects of the organization, including internal staff culture, Membership, Awards, Advocacy, and related programs. He also sets national and Chapter goals to accelerate outcomes for underrepresented communities and creators.

Butler joined the Academy in 2019 as a key member of the Advocacy and Public Policy team and later served as Director, then Senior Advisor of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion department. Within DEI, he's led various efforts including the launch of the Academy's first-ever Black Music Collective, the Women In The Mix® Study alongside Berklee College of Music and Arizona State University, and the implementation of an Inclusion Rider for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards®. Under Ryan’s leadership, the Black Music Collective has hosted the Recording Academy Honors event during GRAMMY Week and honored Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne & Sylvia Rhone to kick off the Academy's celebration of Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary. Ryan continues to advocate for inclusion and education by helping the Academy give out multiple scholarships to HBCUs and students across the US. Providing twelve scholarships in 2022 alone.

MAUREEN DRONEY

Maureen Droney is the Vice President of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards) Producers & Engineers Wing. A former recording engineer herself, Maureen has worked on GRAMMY winning recordings for artists including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and Santana—as well as well as on numerous other projects, including two Billboard Number One Dance songs. She has a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from California State University, San Francisco, and has taught seminars on the theory and practice of recording for companies including ABC and CBS Television. She has also worked in both artist and studio management, was the longtime Los Angeles editor for Mix magazine, and has published three books related to recording. Her most recent, co-written with its subject, is Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music, chronicling the life and career of the most awarded recording engineer in history.

DONNA GRECCO

Donna’s path to the music industry was a bit indirect. At 26, she launched a design, large-scale event and retail design company earning a client list heavy in the music influenced fashion space. After ten successful years in production, she took the role of Vice-President of Marketing and Branding at a key client- Vida Brands working on licensed properties, Baby Phat and Phat Farm Footwear and the launch of Pastry. An integral member of the small team that grew the Pastry brand to $70m+ in wholesale in under one year, the experience became a testament to the power of music, media and an artist’s assets in the world of marketing and branding. After 7 years in the role, she joined Primary Wave where she held the role of V.P. of Marketing and EVP atBrand Synergy Group (Primary Wave’s experiential partner agency) producing countless music and entertainment based experiential events, tour activations, galas and shows.

The move to her current role as V.P. of Creative and Asset Management and building a department that manages hundreds of thousands of assets, was a perfect way to combine her organization skill and love of history and music into a passion for archiving and preserving artists’ legacies for future generations.

For Donna, the deep dive into music catalogues, estates and the legacy music is a dream job and the source of endless creative marketing concepts to execute upon.

KELLY PRIBBLE

Kelly Pribble is a veteran audio engineer, inventor, media archivist, and studio builder who has worked extensively in Nashville, London, New York City, and Rio de Janeiro. Kelly has recently worked to preserve and restore original masters for Bob Dylan, RUSH, Sun Records, James Brown, and Mariah Carey. Before joining Iron Mountain in 2010, Kelly reopened the legendary Nashville Studio "Quadrafonic Sound Studio" in 1988 under “Quad Studios”. With the purchase of the building next door to Quad the following year, he built three additional studios, establishing Nashville's largest recording complex. After more than a decade, Kelly left Nashville for London, where he worked closely with record producer Martin Terefe. With Terefe, Kelly designed and built an eight-studio recording complex called Kensaltown Studios. In 2010, Kelly returned to the US and was hired by Iron Mountain and was issued a Patent for Media Recovery Technology in March 2022.

MEG TRAVIS

As the Director and Global Head of Marketing & Communications for Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services, Meg Travis leads industry and client engagement across North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.  Meg has played an integral role in spearheading the company’s initiatives to bring media preservation and archiving to the forefront of the conversation for entertainment/film, music and sports clients. As a former classical and jazz artist performer, she is a fierce advocate for preserving our collective musical heritage and increasing access to music education, a role she plays in both her professional and personal life.  She holds an M.B.A from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an A.B. in Vocal Performance from Stanford University. Meg currently serves as President of her hometown’s music education initiative and drama association and on the board of the award-winning Rise North America program, a global initiative supporting gender diversity in the media and broadcast industries.