Our Advisory Committee
MUSIC Matters is one of the most unique student-run organizations on campus. In an effort to grow our impact and membership development, we have built a strong network of mentors. Our Advisory Committee is made up of University of Michigan alumni and leaders in the music industry, and help provide our student members with professional guidance.
Phil Schermer
Phillip Schermer is the Founder of MUSIC Matters and a recent graduate from the University of Michigan's Honors Program. Phil is a former White House intern who worked for the National Economic. Earlier in college, he worked on the sets of The Dark Knight Rises, Perks of Being a Wallflower, and for Live Nation on U2's tour.
Today, he works at BlackRock as an Analyst on the Brand Strategy team, where he works on firm-wide strategic initiatives related to BlackRock's shift in focus to the retail market.
Eleven years ago, Phil founded MUSIC Matters and went on to lead the organization as it grew from 10 students to 200+ students, raising over $300,000 in investments in MUSIC Matters, hosting the largest concerts at the University of Michigan and building the first multi-disciplinary festival (SpringFest) of its kind in University of Michigan history. In addition to his role as a member of the MUSIC Matters Board of Directors, Phil is also a member of the LSA Dean's Young Alumni Council, providing strategic counsel and fundraising support to the LSA Dean.
Scott Heydt
Music industry veteran and professional musician, Scott began his career as an accountant in the music business. First at Ernst & Young, followed by Atlantic Records and Provident Financial Management. As the VP of Finance for WEA, the music distribution division of Warner Music Group, Scott played a key role in helping WEA/WMG transform itself from a physical to digital music company. In 2004 Scott shifted his focus from the music industry to the advertising business and held the role of CFO at three different agencies. In January 2017, Scott launched HeydtAir to bring all of this experience to help companies large and small to achieve their long term operational and financial goals.
Sherrie Schwartz
Sherrie Sage Schwartz is the Chief Human Resources Officer at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Based in Los Angeles, Schwartz leads the agency’s people efforts on a global scale.
Prior to joining CAA in February 2015, Schwartz was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Activision Publishing, a division of Activision Blizzard. She has held prior executive HR posts at Levi Strauss & Co., Parke-Davis/Warner-Lambert Company, and Kraft Foods.
Schwartz completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, and received her MBA from the University of Illinois.
Jason Schulweis
In his role as Vice President at MediaLink, Jason Schulweis brings a decade of experience in developing integrated event and media marketing programs for major advertising agencies and brands. Focusing on the industry marketing discipline, Jason provides clients with a focused mix of advisory, visibility, business acceleration and innovation strategies, drawing on his broad industry expertise and network across the agency, publisher and entertainment worlds.
Schulweis joined MediaLink from Live Nation Entertainment, where he was a vice president for the marketing solutions group, leading a team responsible for driving revenue and creating innovative ideas and campaigns for its largest clients and categories. Prior to Live Nation, Schulweis led sales marketing and advertiser solutions teams at Thrillist Media Group, and before that he worked several years at Yahoo! and at the digital agency Deep Focus.
Jason holds a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Michigan, and will happily talk at length about live music, digital media trends, new restaurants, golf and Michigan sports.
Dave Bartlebaugh
Dave Bartlebaugh is the V.P. of Aerial Enterprises, a sound reinforcement and production company based in the Greater Detroit Area. Dave was introduced to MUSIC Matters in 2012 and has since served as the Production Manager for SpringFest, leading both the afternoon festival and evening concert production.
Dave began working in the music industry right out of college in 1971, initially as an audio engineer and production manager for New Heavenly Blue. After signing with RCA in 1972, they released their first album “Education Homegrown.” In 1974, Dave began managing “Sky King”
who was signed to CBS records in November of 1974. Their first album, entitled “Secret Sauce,” was released in February of 1975.
From 1974 through present, Dave has served as V.P. of Aerial Enterprises, with whom he toured extensively from 1974-2003. Among others, they have toured with Santana, AC/DC, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Grand Funk Railroad, The Time, Chic, Kool and the Gang, and Eddie Money.
Between 1982-2015, Dave was the Production Manager of Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest free jazz festival. Since 2015, Dave has been semi-retired. He is currently working on some selective projects that interest him, including a festival in Cuba.