Co-hosts Brad Forsythe and Ray Schilens interview Kevin McKiernan, CEO of Creative License. Upon founding Creative License in 1999, Kevin McKiernan’s mission has always been to champion the best possible entertainment solutions for any host of brand marketing challenges. Today, his company stands as one of the leading independent music and talent supervision companies in the industry, serving as both the creative and strategic architects behind some of the most recognizable partnerships between brands and entertainment. 

Kevin began his professional career over 20 years ago, making his personal mark across the film, television, and theater industries. He spent his spare time helping to open theater companies across the United States, and helped to develop a serried of innovative music programs for emotionally disturbed children. Eventually, Kevin’s incisive views on music and talent, coupled with an undeniable entrepreneurial spirit and a series of key connections he had made along the way, led him to not only give birth to Creative License, but to help the company grow in facets well beyond its competition. Kevin’s touch can be seen and felt throughout the work of major marketers including: Ford, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart, Anheuser-Busch, Pfizer, Intel, Chevrolet, Bayer, Chase, Subaru, Olympus, Cadbury Schweppes, PepsiCo, Coors, Cotton, Gatorade, Miller, and Geico. 

Kevin is a lifetime member of the Actor’s Studio and a founding member of the National Music Alliance. He can often be found coaching the Greenwich Village Little League team and the YMCA’s Junior Knicks team. He lives in NYC with his wife, Valerie, two sons, Jesse and Cody.