Meet the Indiana Entertainment Foundation Board of Directors.

Reverend Thomas Brown is the pastor emeritus at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Indianapolis, and is board president of the Andrew J. Brown academy.  Tom is the son of legendary civil rights activist Andrew J. Brown.

Bruce W. Buchanan, the fourth-generation owner of this family-held business, is CEO of Flanner and Buchanan. He takes great pride in the family’s six-generation history in Indiana and its nearly 150 years of funeral service in Indianapolis. He is active in both civic and arts groups in Indianapolis.

Nationally recognized saxophonist Rob Dixon has worked with a wide variety of artists, from Illinois Jacquet to Ali from “A Tribe Called Quest.” In addition to working as a full-time performer, Mr. Dixon is one of the principal organizers, and also education director, for the Indy Jazz Fest. A graduate of Hampton University, he is also an alumnus of Indiana University. After completing the master’s program in Jazz Studies at IU, Mr. Dixon moved to New York City in 1996, establishing himself as a professional musician working with the Count Basie Band, Rufus Reid, The Ellington Band, composer Bill Lee (Spike Lee ’ s father), Illinois Jacquet, Jonah Jones, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, as well as many others. He returned to Indianapolis in 2002 and started Triology (the first group to be signed by the Owl Studios record label). Recently, one of Mr. Dixon’s original compositions ( Soul Talk ) was featured in the major motion picture Big Stan.  

Clark Giles is an attorney, realtor and data privacy/cybersecurity expert.  Clark currently serves as North America Privacy Officer and Associate General Counsel at Knauf North America.  Clark is a veteran of the Indiana music scene, having been a musician, record label owner and live show promoter.

Terry Lowe founded Hot Potato, an Indianapolis weekly music magazine in 1979, and then moved into artist management and booking, including a stint as the local liaison for Neil Diamond.  After relocating, he worked at Performance Magazine (later Pollstar) and Mix Magazine.  He then founded Timeless Communications Corp, publisher of several trade magazines, including Front of House (FOH) and Projection, Lights and Staging News.  In 2001 Terry launched the Parnelli Awards, the Oscars of the live event production industry, presented at NAMM each year.  Terry started out as a drummer for live bands in the 1970’s.

Ted Mau is a longtime performing musician and serves as the CFO for IEF.  Ted is a Vice President at Flanner Buchanan.

Ron Rice is the director of Veteran’s Services for the City of Indianapolis, and formerly, the community leader for the Near Northwest neighborhood organization in Indianapolis.

Lisa Sauce owns and operates Blonde Entertainment, an Indianapolis based
booking and talent management company. Lisa also operates Blonde Hope, a nonprofit charity that hosts special musical events raising awareness and funds for people in need throughout our Central Indiana community and beyond.

Rick Wilkerson is the Executive Director. He previously owned two record stores in Indianapolis and has owned record labels and wholesale music distribution. Rick recently donated his Indiana music collection, consisting of thousands of Indiana LP’s, 45’s, CDs, tapes, posters, flyers and other memorabilia, to this organization for posterity and research.

Ryan Wright is an attorney and performing musician with Hoosier Daddy and Dean Martini.