If you are a label, publisher, manager or creative business looking for additional expertise I am here to help.
15+ years working across platforms, labels and rights infrastructure, including senior roles at SoundCloud and CloudKid. I specialise in helping music companies, digital platforms, artists and growing teams translate strategy into operational systems that actually work.
Core areas:
Artist development and release strategy
Rights workflows and licensing compliance
Digital operations and platform processes
Release infrastructure and metadata systems
Catalogue integrity and optimisation
Identifying operational risks and scaling solutions
Speaking & Industry Affiliations
Low End Therapy Panel Talk, Panelist "Where's my money : monetising my artist catalogue” (June 2026)
Music Industry Insights Worldwide Podcast, Invited Guest - aired May 2026
Your Music CIC, Invited Speaker - Q&A: Building a sustainable career in the music industry.
Berlin Music Pool — Expert Pool member/workshop facilitator
Most Wanted: Music Berlin — Panelist, Everything You Wanted to Know About Making Money in Music (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) (2025)
Music Leaders Network
EarthPercent - Music Advisory Board Member
Professional Experience
Founder – Red Tape Music (Berlin)
Independent label and consultancy focused on ethical, artist-first release strategy, rights infrastructure and long-term artist development. Writer of Unlabelled - a free educational music industry Substack.
Senior Label Manager – CloudKid (Berlin)
Artist, master, and publishing agreements
Release scheduling, DSP optimisation, catalogue audits
Rebuilt sync workflows via DISCO
Increased sync briefs 10× and doubled sync revenue
Senior Copyright Ops Manager – SoundCloud (Berlin)
Led copyright operations for 130M+ user platform
Mitigated legal risk and protected safe harbour
Built scalable systems for high-risk environments
Licensing – Ministry of Sound, EMI (London)
TV, digital, and international licensing
Cross-territory rights negotiations
Where I add value
Supporting early-stage and scaling companies in building operational foundations
Bridging gaps between product, rights and real-world music operations
Fixing broken workflows and improving efficiency across teams
Bridging the gap between artist reality and operational infrastructure
Translating creative strategy into operational delivery
Building sustainable release and catalogue workflows
Typically structured as:
Project-based and embedded consulting
Short-term problem solving or longer-term operational support
Flexible involvement depending on scope