Richard Hocutt is a 30+-year entertainment industry veteran.  He was deeply involved in independent music distribution, promotion, and marketing of Rap & Hip-Hop music, as well as deep catalog sales, in the early 1980s and 1990s.  From 1990-97, he was the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the West Coast branch of Independent National Distributors Inc. (INDI), the first national pre-recorded audio wholesaler. 

Before his tenure with INDI, he was COO of California Record Distributors, Inc., one of the premier regional independent music distributors, and pioneers of many of the viral marketing techniques still utilized to reach modern music consumers in a digital world.  Since he departed from INDI in 1997, Richard has continued to advise music acts, labels, and artists as an independent consultant,

and manages a catalog of masters and

music publishing through Bess Music.  

During his tenure at both CRDI, INDI, and beyond, Richard helped promote, market, sell and develop artists as diverse as; Run-DMC, Ricky Skaggs, Ice-T, NWA, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Tito Puente, Salt-N-Pepa, Sublime, BeauSoleil, Robert Cray, Aswad, Queen Latifah, Alison Krauss, George Howard, Ben Lee, Anita Baker, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, PJ Harvey, Hieroglyphics, George Thorogood and Creedence Clearwater Revival.  

In 2007, Richard co-founded Directional Entertainment, LLC with business partner and director Mark Landre Gould. 

Directional Entertainment is a film production company created to craft character-driven theatrical film and cable television series productions.  Directional Entertainment’s philosophy is built on creating socially relevant projects

that engage and challenge a diverse

community through the visual arts.