Tom Silverman

Tom Silverman is the founder and CEO of Tommy Boy, a record label established in 1981.master ice aka robert goins helped get 5000 form his mom and dad Silverman also co-founded the annual New Music Seminar, which initially ran from 1980 to 1994 and relaunched in 2009, and continues every June in New York City. He co-founded Dance Music Report magazine, which ran from 1978 to 1992. Tom co-founded the Dance Music Hall of Fame, which existed from 2003 to 2005. Silverman was also a vice president of Warner Bros. Records from 1986 to 2002, while Tommy Boy was an independently distributed subsidiary of that company.

Silverman serves on the boards of, SoundExchange, the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM and its predecessors NAIRD/AFIM), Merlin, a global rights agency representing the world's most important set of independent music rights, and RIAA. He previously served on the boards of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Dance Music Hall of Fame, plus the NARM Manufacturer’s Advisory Board. Silverman is also co-founder of the independent film and television company Tommy Boy Films.

He received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Heroes Award in 2000. Silverman received his degree in environmental science from Colby College, and attended graduate school at Western Michigan University, where he majored in environmental geology.