PANEL: Maximizing Direct-to-Consumer and Live
Featured Speakers:
Rod Yancy - Founder & CEO, Bootleg
Rod Yancy is an entrepreneur, attorney, writer and founder of Bootleg: a music platform that delivers hi-fi concert audio, exclusive photos and premium content, deepening the connection between artists and their fans while unlocking new value from the live experience. He is also the founder and CEO of Oath, a family of ventures designed to help people live fully and plan intentionally, including Oath Law, Oath Planning and Oath Studio. A husband and father, Rod is driven by the belief that life is short and we are here to live with purpose.
Maulin Hemani - Founder & CEO, FanPad
Maulin Hemani is the Founder and CEO of FanPad, building direct-to-fan solutions for artist teams focused on long-term fan engagement and monetization. Previously, Maulin was a Manager at Bain & Company, where he helped advise some of the biggest labels, companies, and investors in Media and Entertainment. Maulin is a lifelong music fanatic & DJ, previously co-founded a merchandising company, and graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in Computer Science and Finance.
Bryan Grone - Head of Production & Artist Relations, B Side
A lifelong musician and innovator with 20 years of experience at the intersection of tech and music, Bryan has held roles in the major label system (Warner Music Group), the DSP space (Spotify) and creator tools space (Splice) before joining forces with the team at AnyRoad to develop the BSide model and platform. Bryan is a voting member of the Producer & Engineering wing of the Recording Academy, and fronts a Grateful Dead leaning cover band in the suburbs of NYC.
Matt Bacon - Founder, Sapphire Eye & Dropout Media
Matt Bacon is a marketing director, A&R, and manager specializing in the world of heavy metal. Matt has worked with a wide range of artists from pop stars like Mitski and boygenius to rock icons Coven and Arthur Brown by way of legendary bands Killswitch Engage, Neurosis and Apocalyptica as well as labels including Prophecy Productions, Run For Cover, and Metal Blade.
With his longtime partner Julien Mitelberg, Fabrice Sergent has grown Bandsintown into the top live music discovery platform in the world with 95 million registered live music fans. 650,000 artists use their free Bandsintown For Artists account to grow a fanbase and communicate with fans to sell more tickets, merch and music.
Through its platform and partnersips with Spotify, Apple, Shazam, Google and more, Bandsintown delivers 400 million concert recommendations and 20 million clicks to buy tickets monthly.