About

Jeff Green is an award-winning executive, writer, researcher and analyst, co-forming the Stone Door Media Lab in September 2012. He previously served five years as VP/Operations at trade publication Country Aircheck in editorial and research roles, database, website/event development and production.

Green’s background includes 22 years in executive posts at the Americana Music Association, Radio & Records, the Country Music Association and Billboard Publications, Inc.’s European weekly trade pub Music & Media, based in Amsterdam. He’s also an Radio Advertising Bureau-accredited Certified Radio Marketing Consultant and an alumnus of Leadership Music and the Disney Leadership Institute. Green holds a BA in Radio/Television from San Francisco State University and an MBA from University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Lauren Virshup is a researcher and editor with a BS and MBA from Yale and graduate degrees from Columbia University and Vanderbilt University. She is a former VP/GM of Professional Desk References, publisher of the No. 1 bestseller reference The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music. A researcher for several years of Nielsen Audio’s four annual Radio Today national reports on radio listening, Virshup has also served as adjunct professor at Webster University in Leiden,  the Netherlands and wrote teaching materials for Newsweek for many years.