CMHOFM Names New Troubadour Advisory Council Members & Leadership Team

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has named the new members of its Troubadour Advisory Council Members and Leadership Team.

This year’s leadership team includes Zach Farnum, Chair (Owner, 117 Entertainment), Elizabeth Lombardi, Vice Chair (Executive, Business Affairs, Music, Creative Artists Agency), Brenden Oliver, Vice Chair (Director of Awards Stewardship, Country Music Association) and Max Vanberg, Vice Chair (Country Music Agent Trainee, William Morris Endeavor).

This new team will work with the Troubadour Advisory Council’s 2026 members, which includes Scott Adkins (President/CEO, Adkins Entertainment / Adkins Publicity), Karli Berman (Teacher, Metro Nashville Public Schools), Christopher Beverly (Business & Litigation Attorney, Shields Construction Law, PLLC), Corben Champoux (Employee Benefits Consultant, Brown & Brown of Tennessee), Kasey Cleckler (Owner, Executive + Performance Coach, Cape + Anchor), Katie Cline Moore (Business Manager, Cline Co Business & Financial Management), Taylor Edwards McElveen (Fixed Income Associate Portfolio Manager, AllianceBernstein), Bryan Freche (Client Services Associate – Music Entertainment Practice, Gallagher), Brittney Hitch (Senior Manager of Contracts & Booking, Bridgestone Arena), Ashley Kennedy (Senior Account Manager, FBMM Entertainment Business Management), Cody Kirby (Senior Counsel, Parallon — an HCA Affiliate), Chris Martignago (VP of A&R, Prescription Songs), Nathan Pyle (Director of Operations, Genni & Co.), Molly Shehan (Partner, Milom Crow Kelley Beckett Shehan PLC), Casey Thomas (VP of Marketing, Lost Highway) and Josh Tomlinson (Director, A&R, ONErpm).

More information on Troubadour membership can be found here.

Lauryn Sink is a staff writer at MusicRow Magazine. Hailing from Lexington, North Carolina, Lauryn is a 2025 graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.