{"id":70,"date":"2012-07-18T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/?p=70"},"modified":"2013-03-04T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T14:45:06","slug":"porfirio-pina-elected-president-of-board-of-bmi-foundation-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Porfirio Pi\u00f1a Elected President of Board of BMI Foundation, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"Porfirio Pi\u00f1a Elected President of Board of BMI Foundation, Inc.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.e2ma.net\/userdata\/3825\/images\/medium\/scaled_e1341937387.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 \u2013 Porfirio Pi\u00f1a has been elected President of the Board of Directors of the <a href=\"http:\/\/e2ma.net\/go\/12887540081\/214163536\/236210876\/3825\/goto:http:\/\/www.bmifoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BMI Foundation, Inc.<\/a>, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to encouraging the creation, performance and study of music. Formed by BMI employees in 1985, the organization sponsors a variety of programs designed to support music education, encourage talented young musicians in all genres of music, and to promote music in communities all across America.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The board voted unanimously to appoint Pi\u00f1a, who replaces Ralph N. Jackson as the third President in the 27-year history of the BMI Foundation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cPorfirio is a natural and inspiring leader with great passion for music and a truly generous spirit,\u201d said outgoing President Ralph Jackson. \u201cThe board has every confidence that he is the perfect person to lead the Foundation to great new successes in the future.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pi\u00f1a is currently Senior Director, Writer\/Publisher Relations for Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). He joined BMI\u2019s Writer\/Publisher Relations department in March 2005 after working in various positions in music publishing, marketing and promotions, including as Director of Sales &amp; Marketing for independent label Latino Music (Sony Music) and Product Manager for Palm Pictures. He was also President and Co-Owner of two artist management and music production companies, Double P Music and PNP Productions and President and Co-Owner of Ritmo Loco Musisc Publishing. He attended both MTI Business School and Business Automation School in New York. Pi\u00f1a serves on the Board of Directors of The Recording Academy NY Chapter and is also Director of the BMI Foundation\u2019s peermusic Latin Scholarship, a national competition for young Latin songwriters and composers. Now in its tenth year, the $5,000 scholarship competition is open to college students in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and seeks to identify and reward young talent in the Latin genre.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The BMI Foundation, Inc. is supported by tax-deductible donations from songwriters, composers and publishers, BMI employees and members of the public with a special interest in music. More information about the BMI Foundation is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/e2ma.net\/go\/12887540081\/214163536\/236210877\/3825\/goto:http:\/\/www.bmifoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bmifoundation.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 \u2013 Porfirio Pi\u00f1a has been elected President of the Board of Directors of the BMI Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to encouraging the creation,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,108,106],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bmi","tag-bmi-foundation","tag-porfirio-pina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesdiaz.com\/vidaymusica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}