Gregg Latterman

Prior to joining the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, Gregg was the founder and CEO of Aware Records where he signed the following bands to his joint venture with Columbia Records: Train, John Mayer, Five for Fighting and Mat Kearney. In addition, Gregg built A-Squared Management that directed the careers of artists such as The Fray, Michelle Branch, Liz Phair, Brandi Carlile, Jack's Mannequin, Mat Kearney, Five for Fighting and Rachel Platten. The artists Gregg has signed/or managed have sold over 30 millions CD's, in addition to multi-millions of singles and billions of streams of their individual songs.

Gregg Latterman is an Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses at Northwestern in Entrepreneurship. He created and teaches a class entitled, NUvention: Entrepreneurship for the Arts. Latterman also serves as a Program Lead for the Zell Fellows New Venture Track, a selective venture accelerator program designed to help student entrepreneurs successfully launch new businesses. In addition, Gregg helped lead and develop the Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Kellogg for the New World Symphony Entrepreneurship Sessions in Miami Beach.

Gregg has spent over two decades in the music and entertainment industry. While a CPA at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Boston, he put together a compilation of unsigned bands called the Aware Compilations in 1993 that became immensely popular and included unknown bands at the time like Hootie & the Blowfish, Matchbox 20, Jack Johnson, Train, John Mayer and many others.  While building up Aware, he went to The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University to get his MBA and had ten employees by the time he graduated.

Gregg was one of the first entrepreneur's to combine music with television, film, and advertising campaigns. Gregg worked with the network ABC to bring The Fray's video of the song "How to Save a Life" into promotional spots for the popular television show "Grey's Anatomy." As a student at Kellogg School of Management, Gregg built the first online record store called, "Awarestore" in 1995 and later in 2008 the first music "app" while managing the band, The Fray.

Gregg graduated in 2013 with a Masters in Positive Psychology at The University of Pennsylvania under Martin Seligman and now teaches "Positive Entrepreneurship" at Northwestern University. Gregg also teaches a course for the Farley School of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern titled Entrepreneurship for Engineers.

Gregg is an Angel Investor as well as an advisor and mentor for dozens of start-ups. Gregg graduated from Michigan State University in 1990 and the Kellogg School of Management in 1996.

Education M.A., 2013, Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

MBA, 1996, Management, Northwestern University

B.A., 1990, Accounting, Michigan State University

Academic Positions Program Lead for the Zell Fellows: New Venture Track, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2016-present

Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2016-present

Other Professional Experience Consulting and Audit Professional, Coopers & Lybrand/Price Waterhouse Consulting, 1991-1993

Founder/President, A-Squared Management, 1999-present

Founder/President, Aware Records, 1993-present

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