Cox and Bakshi for Music Exchange

The conference is a high touch event whereby the speakers are present throughout the day and you can engage with them continually. Delegates are encouraged to bring product to exchange and network with speakers and delegates.

Bryan Michael Cox is a Grammy award-winning American songwriter and record producer. He has been responsible for over 175 million album sales and won the Grammy Award nine times.

He has co-written and co-produced hit singles including Mary J Blige's Be Without You.
Mariah Carey's Shake It Off and Don't Forget About Us; Monica's Still Standing and U Should've Known Better, Jagged Edge's He Can't Love You, Walked Outta Heaven, Let's Get Married and Where the Party At, Danity Kane's Ride For You, Toni Braxton's Just Be a Man About It, Trippin' (That's the Way Love Works), Janet Jackson's Nothing, Marques Houston's Circle, Ginuwine's Stingy and Last Chance, Usher's U Got It Bad, Burn and Confessions, Pt. 2.

He's has been professionally producing since 1998, receiving his first formal credit on 1999's Get Gone by the R&B Houston-based group Ideal. In September 2009, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

Concluding the first decade of the new millennium Cox was named by Billboard Magazine as one of the top 10 producers of the decade. Be Without You, co-written and produced by Cox and performed by Mary J Blige, was also cited as the number one R&B song of the decade.

Brandon Bakshi

To Cox can be added Brandon Bakshi, the Executive Director of Writer/Publisher Relations for Europe & Asia, based in the BMI's London office.

While at BMI, Bakshi has been responsible for the signing of Daft Punk, Pete Townshend, Queen, Sade, Afrojack, Deadmau5, One Direction, Shaggy, Avicci as well as Ellie Goulding. He has been a past speaker and moderator at the Winter Music Conference, Amsterdam Dance Event as well a Music Managers Forum.

Limited tickets are now on sale through Computicket, Shoprite and Checkers outlets countrywide, online at www.computicket.com or by calling 0861 915 8000.Tickets cost R100 per day, or R150 for the full two-day event.

See more on www.mex15.co.za

The venue is GrandWest -Market Hall starting at 9.30am each day .