Our Management Team

The Syndicated Radio Asset Management Company is led by a cross-functional Working Group, which includes:

• The most successful entrepreneur in syndicated talk radio
• Legendary multi award-winning programmers
• The industry’s top tier radio sales executives
• Leading legal minds whose key skill sets are in the radio sector
• A leading media broker

This structure gives clients direct access to industry leaders working in concert, while individual Working Group members are also responsible for managing a “deep bench” of specialist, managerial talent in their respective fields.

Click on the pictures below for individual career history and achievements.

Ronald H. Severaid
Expertise: Legal, Asset Valuation

Ronald Severaid has served as an executive officer of multiple companies involved in various aspects of radio syndication, specializing in contract administration and risk management, in addition to ongoing continuing responsibilities for the California law firm which he founded.  Severaid has specialized in multiple aspects of secured party remedies, title transitions, and workouts, including serving as principal outside counsel to American Savings and Loan Association on major asset receivership actions and bankruptcy relief from stay actions throughout Northern California, and securing receivership appointments and bankruptcy relief from stay on behalf of various banks and private party lenders, together with all aspects of securing title and possession of pledged assets following loan defaults, judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings and litigation involving all aspects of the loan enforcement process. Severaid graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1977. Severaid has served as California counsel for Talk Radio Network since 1998, and assumed the positions of corporate secretary and Senior Vice President for Business Affairs with TRN, in 2005, and now serves as Executive Vice President and corporate secretary, for TRN.

 

 

 

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