DAVE MORRIS
PRESIDENT, CORNERMAN MUSIC
Dave Morris started his music career at EMI Music in Toronto. Three years later, he would spearhead the record-setting “59 Ways to Funk” campaign.
After a series of successful platinum campaigns across Virgin, EMI and Astralwerks labels for 30 Seconds to Mars, Daft Punk, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nickelback, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Air, Tina Turner and many others, Dave lead career-spanning initiatives including the infamous Iron Maiden Eddie releases, Massive Attack’s 100th Window – which landed at #1 and owned the Top 3x Billboard catalogue chart positions – and a global Rolling Stones classic reissue series.
Morris then moved to Capitol Records in Hollywood, taking American-signed acts like Sean Lennon, The Dandy Warhols, Jane’s Addiction, Yellowcard, and OkGo, worldwide.
In 2007, he transitioned into artist management, employing his expansive music expertise working with Melissa Etheridge, Dave Koz, Adam Cohen, Vicci Martinez, and discovering platinum-selling singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson.
Morris soon formed the management company Cornerman Music overseeing major label artists Philip Sayce (Warner Bros), Eric Hutchinson (Warner Bros/Kobalt), Puddle of Mudd (Interscope/Warner Chappell) Falls (Universal/Atlas), Moon (Warner Bros/Warner Chappell), Distant Cousins (Orchard/Secret Road), Scouuts (Warner Chappell), Blake Reid (Sony), Kai Exos and many others.
Its branding offshoot CornerMarket, is a consulting service for corporate clients; Custom Made is Cornerman’s label division.
As a music supervisor and a producer, Morris produced and co-created the successful podcast People in My Phone with Dan Levy (HarperCollins), countless music videos, and is currently developing documentaries on rock superstars.