BOARD SHORTS: The Mechanical Licensing Collective announced six appointments to the org’s advisory committees, including three additions to the Dispute Resolution Committee (songwriter David “DQ” Quiñones, Spirit Music Group’s Consuelo Sayago and Vydia’s Matthew Skiba), one to the Operations Advisory Committee (Concord Music Publishing’s Lidia Kim) and two new faces (songwriter “Bruce” Waynne Nugent and Sony Music Publishing’s Dale Esworthy) on the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee. Committee terms last three years … Music community startup We Are Giant added William Morris Endeavor co-head of Nashville Becky Gardenhire to its board of directors. She’ll act as a strategic advisor to WAG founding CEO Andy Apple and his team on their efforts to expand the music platform’s footprint in the always-growing Nashville market. Gardenhire joins the recently added AEG Presents exec David Rappaport on the board.