Shanti Das

Shanti Das is executive vice president of urban marketing and artist development for Universal Motown Records. In addition to managing the marketing department as a whole, she also is the product manager for Akon, Erykah Badu, Ashanti and Chamillionaire. Before her move to Motown, Das was the senior vice president of urban marketing for Sony Urban Music. She earned numerous awards, scholarships, and honors before graduating from Syracuse in 1993 with a bachelor's of science degree, including a Delta Sigma Theta Minority Scholarship in 1990 and being named a Newhouse Scholar in 1991.