Monica Corton is the CEO & Founder of Go to Eleven Entertainment and the Go to Eleven Music Royalty Fund. The company is an investor funded music publishing, branding/social media and artist services firm that focuses on signing, developing, and licensing rights for songwriters, artists, and producers. In addition, she currently serves on the AI Licensing Committee of the IMPF (International Music Publishers Forum) and is a recurring writer on music licensing for AI for Music Business Worldwide Magazine.

Prior to starting Go to Eleven, she was the President of Monica Corton Consulting, a full-service music consulting company that advises on music supervision, music publishing, copyright, licensing, business strategy, master licensing, sample clearances and royalties. From 1991 to 2018, Ms. Corton held several positions including as Senior Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs and Licensing at the music publishing company, Next Decade Entertainment. Her responsibilities included all creative exploitation of Next Decade’s works, searching for and signing new talent, negotiating, drafting, and licensing all works published and administered by the company as well as overseeing the collection and distribution of royalties. During her tenure at Next Decade, she was also a music supervisor for film, television, and Broadway productions including Warner Bros’ Grumpier Old Men, the CBS movie Gleason and John Leguizamo’s Broadway production of Freak. She is a graduate of the Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, where she obtained two Bachelor-in-Music degrees, one in flute performance and the other in music education.