Future Music Forum

Angel held the position of Global VP, Music & Content at social media giant Bebo, where she was responsible for accelerating the growth and enhancing the popularity of bebo by creating and executing bebo's music strategy, product and partnerships. Her focus on building the valuation of the company through entertainment content helped ensure AOL's acquisition of the company for $850m.

Previously she was VP, Commercial, Strategy & Digital Media for MTV Networks where she oversaw MTVN’s strategy & P&L across MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Paramount and Comedy brands where she launched the first IPTV, VOD, mobile and social channels.

Prior to MTVN, Angel was Controller, Business Development & Emerging Platforms at the BBC where she lead the company's expansion into mobile, broadband and on-demand platforms including creation, development and launch of the iPlayer.

Angel was a founding Director of Broadband at gameplay where she lead business development and has consulted to a number of Fortune 500 companies in the area of online commerce.

Earlier in her career she served as Director of Legal and Business Affairs for several NGOs protecting wildlife and their habitat.

 Denver Thomas has a long media history that started when he was a teenager; scholarships from performance arts schools such as London Studio Center [1986] where he studied classical ballet, various contempory & jazz dance styles; drama, vocal coaching, music, and stage and theatre production.

The performance arts school ‘London Studio Centre’ is one of the leading facilities in Europe similar to the ‘Julliard school in New York; Denver shared class full time with former students such as the actress ‘Elizabeth Hurley’ and Louie Spence who is the lead star in the pineapple studios reality show.

 

From 1996 to 2001 he toured across the USA as a singer songwriter after being signed to a music management contract with his then band. His musicians have since gone on to work with some of the top names in American Rock and Jazz.

 

Denver became disillusioned with the practices of the industry and dropped off the music radar to focus on the business to business side. He began to develop what is now known as the music2text mobile e-commerce platform.

 

Denver is highly literate in technical & design project management, long/short form media, print, TV, radio, satellite, online, social, viral, digital distribution and mobile ecommerce.

As CEO/founder, Denver has 25 years of international experience within the music industry.

 

 

Christoph Lange studied at the University of Mannheim, where he majored in marketing, information systems, and English studies.

He was awarded the DAAD GoEast scholarship to spend part of his studies at the renowned Corvinus University in Budapest.

He was awarded the Karl-Steinbuch scholarship for an innovative blog opinion and sentiment analysis tool. Since 2009, Christoph has also been working as a lecturer at the University of Popular Music and Music Business in Mannheim.

Age: 39
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stuff in the '90s
Education: bachelor of Science in Industrial Automation (Roadtransport Engineering)
Employment: sales & account management for several global IT companies
Entrepreneur since 2000: co-founder of Punda Milia, a very successful consultancy firm based in Amsterdam helping entrepreneurs to take their business online & abroad.

Quote about Hessel: "Not only is Hessel co-author of 4 successful workbooks for entrepreneurs but with his books, films and interactive workshops Hessel is a leading proponent of entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, helping thousands of entrepreneurs to put new technology and business models into practice. Keywords: passion for new business development, connecting people, sharing knowledge & new, some disruptive, business models."

Stuff from 2008 onward:
Founder & CEO of Tribe of Noise, connecting musicians & business.
Some nominations / prizes: 2011 Microsoft BizSpark most promising tech start ups, 2011 White Bull (European innovative tech start ups) finalists, Sprout Challengers Peoples Choice Award, BT Digital Music People, PayPal X startup, Innovate!100, Shell Livewire award
Topics & speeches as a panelist / speaker: The New Music Ecosystem, DRM and beyond, re-design the music industry value chain, the future of music TV, music & brands, music in games, copyleft vs copyright, brand managers of the future, publishing 2.0, music placement on refrigerators, broadcasting in a digital world, non exclusive music exploitation, creative commons, brand radio: What does your brand sound like?
On the side:
Owner of the New Music Industry group with ~ 4000 music industry professionals on LinkedIn
Publishing the "Un-official MIDEM Daily"
Sharing ideas and thoughts on Twitter