Amanda Cates is the Head of Marketing and Digital Strategy at Maverick Nashville, overseeing all artist online, e-commerce, mobile, social, fan engagement, new business development and marketing initiatives for the company's roster of high-profile country music clients. Previous ventures include working for a Seattle-based venture-funded mobile entertainment startup, as well as an artist management firm in Raleigh, NC.  Cates is a Co-Founder of the Digital Divas Nashville networking organization, a 2015’s Platinum Mentor Award recipient for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s Project Music accelerator program, and an honoree of 2016’s Music Row Magazine’s Rising Women on the Row award.