Kat MacLean Daley, the founder of KatClearedit, hails from a tiny town in Vermont by way of Philadelphia and Jersey, and is now based in Los Angeles. She is a Berklee College of Music Alumni where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Music Business Management and Professional Music with concentrations in marketing and performance. While finishing her studies, she spent the last year and a half of her schooling as a College Marketing Rep for Universal Music Group, establishing the basis of her professional career. Upon graduation, she was hired as the executive assistant to Chief Counsel at Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). After nine months, Kat was promoted to coordinator of Sampling; a department she would climb the ladder in over the course of the next 5 years - creating processes, data tracking standards, clearing samples on behalf of UMPG for over 2,000 songs including releases by Drake, Baby Tate, Gunna, 21 Savage, Beyonce, and more, and increasing the department’s revenue by over 500%. Kat cleared the samples for Old Town Road by Lil Nas X, Kings & Queens by Ava Max, Break My Heart by Dua Lipa, Go Crazy by Chris Brown, Young Thug, and many more chart topping hits. Kat was also a driving force in setting sampling standards outside of the US and in new genres including country music. After rising to a director title at UMPG, Kat was tapped by Snoop Dogg via Deborah Mannis-Gardner to become the VP & Head of Publishing at Death Row Records where she reported directly to him and was responsible for the company’s day to day operations in music with her primary focus being on licensing and their newly established publishing business. After exiting Death Row Records, Kat founded her own business where she is providing services including management for producers, artists, and songwriters, industry consulting, advising for emerging tech in music, and inbound sample representation for publishers. To hear projects Kat has played a part in, click the link below.