Cathy Carapella

president, Diamond Time, Ltd.

Cathy is the president of Diamond Time Ltd with a team of seven licensing professionals in both New York City & Los Angeles. Diamond Time specializes in commercial clearance and licensing services to book, video and music operations. With Dependable Solutions, Cathy and the Diamond Time team offer licensing clearance outsourcing services when Dependable Solutions client projects require specialized personnel to initialize licensing projects. Cathy has 22 years of experience as expert in licensing best practices and title clearances especially in complex multi-territory projects. She holds a bachelors or arts degree from NY State University Oswego in broadcast communications. Cathy is the co-founder of the USA chapter of FOCAL International (Federation Of Commercial Audio-visual Libraries). Before working at Diamond Time, Cathy was the producer of the syndicated television program *Today In Music History*.