Heather Dembert Rafter has been providing legal and business development services to the audio, music technology and digital media industries for over twenty-five years. As principal counsel at RafterMarsh US, she leads the RM team in providing sophisticated corporate and IP advice (US practice) and entertainment law services (UK) to content creators, hardware and software developers, and event producers. Heather served as Director of Legal affairs and later General Counsel for Digidesign, the audio division of Avid Technology, creator of Pro Tools software. She is currently a Senior Strategic Advisor to MediaBridge Capital Advisors, a leading investment banking and strategic advisory firms serving the media technology industry.She began her legal career as a litigation attorney at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Heather has served as Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law, and is a member of the ABA’s Fund for Justice and Education. She is on the board of SoundGirls.org; serves on the advisory board of WiMN, the Women’s International Music Network; and on the advisory council for the Department of Music at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Princeton University (A.B., Woodrow School of Public & International Affairs, magna cum laude) and Columbia University School of Law (J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
