Los Angeles, California, United States
As President of Music and Publishing at NBCUniversal, Mike Knobloch oversees all aspects of the studio's music and soundtracks. In addition, he manages one of the industry’s largest film and TV music publishing catalogs, with songs and scores spanning nearly a century of Universal’s storied history. An industry veteran, the Emmy-winning and 2X GRAMMY-nominated Music Supervisor and Producer's career highlights include five of the top-20 highest grossing films of all time globally, including Jurassic World, Titanic and Avatar. In the last decade, songs and soundtracks he has supervised have been streamed more than 43B times. At Universal, he has overseen the music for their most successful franchises including Fast & Furious, Pitch Perfect, Despicable Me, Fifty Shades of Grey, as well as the highest-grossing biopic of all time, OPPENHEIMER (Oscar, GRAMMY, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Score). He has supervised noteworthy musicals and other critically acclaimed projects including Illumination's Sing franchise, Super Mario Bros and The Secret Life of Pets films, Les Misérables, Straight Outta Compton, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Marry Me, DWA's Trolls and Kung Fu Panda, and the GRAMMY-nominated soundtrack to Dear Evan Hansen. Other highlights include Furious 7's anthem "See You Again," the global phenomenon "Happy" from Despicable Me 2, "Earned It" and "Love Me Like You Do" from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Pitch Perfect's "Cups." As a passionately committed advocate for representation in music for visual media, Knobloch and Universal’s GTDI group launched the company’s Composer Diversity Initiative in 2018. This first-of-its-kind program identifies and develops talent with a focus on underrepresented groups in the industry. Prior to his arrival at Universal in 2010, Knobloch was the Executive Vice President of Film Music at 20th Century Fox. His credits there since 1996 include The Devil Wears Prada, Moulin Rouge, There’s Something About Mary, Napoleon Dynamite, Drumline, Walk the Line, Man On Fire, Dodgeball, The Simpsons Movie, and the X-Men, Ice Age and Alvin & the Chipmunks films. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served on the national boards for both The Recording Academy / GRAMMYs and its philanthropic arm, MusiCares. Knobloch received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Northwestern University where he has served for nearly two decades on the Dean’s Advisory Committee at the School of Communication, and he is currently an Advisory Board Member for Northwestern’s Sound Arts and Industries program.