Ventura Barba
General Manager, Yahoo! Music Europe and Canada; Barcelona

Ventura Barba has worked at Yahoo! since January 2000.  Until 2002 he was the General Counsel for Yahoo! Spain, and from June 2003 till June 2007 he was Director of the Legal and Business Affairs Department of Yahoo! Music International.  In June 2007 he was promoted to the position of General Manager for Yahoo! Music Europe and Canada.

Before joining Yahoo!, Mr. Barba worked for BMG Music Spain & Portugal (a Bertelsmann company), as Director of the Legal and Business Affairs Department, for both the record and publishing companies.  Before that, he worked as a solicitor in the Enrich Law Firm, where he was head of the New Technologies and Entertainment department.  He also worked at the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) and in the movie industry for the Los Angeles-based company Arenas Group.

Mr. Barba has a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and an MBA in Cultural Enterprises Management from the University of Madrid.

He is an active EDiMA (European Digital Media Association) board member, and he teaches in several master's degree programs on Copyright, Music and New Technology Law and Media Business at the Instituto de Empresa, ICADE, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra.  Mr. Barba is also co-director of the Music Industry Management Course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.