About the Louisiana Music Export Office

The Louisiana Music Export Office was founded by Scott Aiges. For more than three years leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Aiges was Director of Music Business Development in the New Orleans' Mayor's Office of Economic Development. Milestone achievements include: passage of the Louisiana Sound Recording Investor Tax Credit; partnership with the Tipitina's Foundation to develop the New Orleans Music Office Co-Op (now a state-wide project; see: www.tipitinasfoundation.org/office.htm); and coordination of many industry development events, including the Voodoo EconoMixx technology workshop and three years of the free, two-day festival called MO Fest.

With more than 18 years of experience in the New Orleans and Louisiana music industries, Aiges has been: music editor of the daily Times-Picayune newspaper; manager and booking agent for several of New Orleans' most noted musicians, including Astral Project, the Continental Drifters and the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars; managing director of the LMNOP music industry conference; and a masthead-listed writer for Billboard and Downbeat magazines, as well as a contributor to Rolling Stone and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

The Louisiana Music Export Office is a nonprofit Louisiana corporation. It's fiscal agent is the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center while the Office's 501(c)(3) application is pending with the United States Internal Revenue Service.

The LMEO's Board of Trustees

• Marjorie Esman, Esq., New Orleans, LA
  Intellectual Property, Milling, Benson & Woodward
• Edgar D. Gankendorff, Esq., New Orleans, LA
  Entertainment Attorney, Provosty, Sadler, deLaunay Fiorenza and Sobel
• Jerry Goolsby, PhD., New Orleans, LA
  Hilton-Baldridge Eminent Scholar in Music Industry Studies,
  Loyola University
• Ben Jaffe, New Orleans, LA
  Leader, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
• Sharon Litwin, New Orleans, LA
  Director, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
• Michael Long, Shreveport, LA
  Executive Director, F.A.M.E. Foundation
• Don Marshall, New Orleans, LA
  Executive Director, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
• Todd Mouton, Lafayette, LA
  Louisiana Crossroads Director, Acadiana Arts Council/
  Lafayette Economic Development Authority
• Jan Ramsey, New Orleans, LA
  Publisher, OffBeat magazine
• Cynthia Simien, Lafayette, LA
  Board Member, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences,
  Memphis Chapter
• Maggie Warwick, Shreveport, LA
  Executive Director, Louisiana Hayride Foundation
• Jay Weigel, New Orleans, LA
  Executive Director, Contemporary Arts Center