Bas Grasmayer, Founder, Berlin
I’m a freelance strategist with a background in music & startups.
Much of my experience involves community management, product strategy, marketing strategy, concept development, and market analysis for startups, artists and political parties. (LinkedIn)
If you are interested in working together on these topics, please get in touch.
I’ve held two executive product roles at IDAGIO, a music streaming service dedicated to classical music, and Zvooq, a large music streaming service in Russia & CIS. The work we did at these companies was featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Vogue, TechCrunch and Billboard.
I’ve written for publications like Techdirt, Water & Music, Hypebot, i-D and the Midem blog, and spoken at places like Amsterdam Dance Event, Berklee Valencia, Border Sessions, European Lab, Midem, Reeperbahn Festival and Sónar +D.
Current:
Head of Platforms at COLORS.
Founder at MUSIC x.
Previously:
Visiting Professor at Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, NYU.
Co-organizer at Artist Lockdown Challenge.
Product Director at IDAGIO.
Product Lead at music streaming service Zvooq.
Head of Information Strategy at Dream Industries.
Head of Communication & Market Analyst at official.fm.
Maarten Walraven-Freeling, Editor, The Netherlands
Maarten is a channel manager at Stingray with a specific focus on classical music and jazz (LinkedIn). He also manages the Dutch musical theater company Liedhuis and co-edits the MUSIC x newsletter.