After graduating from Belmont University, Jake spent two years in the Music & Media Licensing department of CMT managing music supervisors and clearing publishing for CMT Music programming before joining landing his first publishing role at Broken Bow Records publishing company, Magic Mustang Music. In his current role as Creative Director at Sea Gayle Music, he supports the roster of staff songwriters and the development of their artist/writers. Sea Gayle Music—established in 1999—is home to some of Nashville’s most successful songwriters. Sea Gayle’s writers have written 41 chart-topping songs and earned the company ASCAP’s Country Publisher of the year honors two out the past five years.