David Pack os the Lead Singer/Writer/Guitarist for the legendary band, Ambrosia. David is also a respected solo artist and Grammy winning producer and music director of special events, including both of President Clinton's inaugurations. In addition to Ambrosia, David has been a key collaborator in the music industry. He is well known for his duet with Bette Midler on multiplatinum Beaches soundtrack on Atlantic, and collaborated and performed with Michael McDonald & James Ingram on “Maria” from The Songs Of West Side Story; Wynonna on “Why Now” track from The Other Side CD. He wrote and sang with GRP keyboard artist David Benoit’s Top 5 AC hit “The Key To You,” as well as “Prove Me Wrong” for movie score and multiplatinum soundtrack to White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov & Gregory Hines on Atlantic. He performed guest vocals for QuincyJones, James Ingram, Kansas, .38 Special, Michael McDonald, Doobie Bros., Pat Simmons, Andrae Crouch, Larry Carlton. He wrote & sang 3 tracks on Alan Parsons “Try Anything Once” Arista CD and was the guest vocalist on Al Stewart’s legendary “Year Of The Cat” and “Time Passages” albums. 

Venture Capitalist David Pakman is a Partner at Venrock, has been an Internet digital media entrepreneur since 1997 and co-founded the Apple Music Group in 1995 while at Apple in the mid-90s. He also helped to launch one of the very first online music companies, N2K, co-founded MyPlay, the pioneer of digital music lockers, and was the CEO of eMusic for five years. As a Partner at Venrock, David has his finger on the pulse of digital media, spending his days advising and investing in early-stage internet and digital media companies.  

Note from the show's Producer, Mary Agnes Antonopoulos: Today, we are going to interview our host, one of my favorite people of all time, Kelli Richards.  Kelli has been a catalyst and change agent in the music industry for her entire career - coaching innovators and leaders in music, entertainment and technology and helping to create amazing projects to better our world. She’s also a certified coach, and as a coach, every single day helps artists, celebrities and even everyday people, accelerate their vision of what’s possible and blow past personal and professional roadblocks.  Kelli also mentors artists and musicians to navigate what they have already created into the hands of the right people – the key players that the rest of us only wish were in our realm. Kelli Richards is creative and compelling, AND she’s connecting the dots for other people all day, every day.  This should be a GREAT show.  

Jason Benlevi is the author of “Too Much Magic, Pulling the Plug on the Cult of Tech.” Too Much Magic is the story of how venture capital, media moguls and marketeers use digital magic to distract us, invade our privacy, corrupt democracy, distort our human values, and sell us things that we don't need.  Too Much Magic looks at all aspects of our emerging digital lifestyle, how it is changing us, and who it is that really benefits.  Jason Benlevi has spent decades as a marketing communications guru, working in the leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.  As a creative director, speech writer and a script writer for companies like Apple, Microsoft, Sun, HP, Sony, Sega and Cisco, Jason helped sell the dream of the digital life.