๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป Work experience
Senior Product Manager
Sony Music - Product, Design, Engineering๐
Hamburg, Germany โ (July 2022 - Present)
- Accounting, Tax, Finance, & Royalties Products
- Planned and managed product release life cycle from concept to launch
- Leveraged research and data to align stakeholders on vision and priorities
- Delivered consecutive launches together with cross-functional teams of engineers and designers
Senior Product Manager
The Orchard (A Sony Company)๐
Hamburg, Germany โ (May 2019 - July 2022)
- Drove negotiation and integration of leading global payments system
- Lead customer and market research, and cross-divisional operations alignment on new offerings
- Continue to drive product vision, roadmap and goals for new royalty management & payment product
- Product owner for agile development team through design, development, launch, maintenance, maturity
- Align stakeholders through ongoing upper-management & executive presentation and pitching
Founder
Membran Entertainment Canada Ltd. & MembranLabs๐
Vancouver, BC, Canada โ (Dec 2016 - Present)
- Hired and managed remote operations and engineering teams.
- Founded & grew territory to represent >20% of global digital revenues
- Secured numerous local and federal innovation grants for Crypto R&D division
- Built out 3 Music industry focused POC Crypto Projects
- Represent company & projects in speaking engagements and interview articles globally
Chief Operating Officer
Membran Entertainment Group๐
Hamburg, Germany โ (Apr 2015 - May 2019)
- Centralized accounts receivable, reducing total-days-overdue and total receivables by 75%.
- Integrated logistics to a single business unit and relocated hub to Czech Republic resulting in:
- Reduced manufacture-to-stock shipping & handling costs to zero
- Improved scalability allowing for increase to 60,000 SKUs (+40%) over a 6 month period
- Introduced new stock requirement calculation and process to reduce owned-overstock 15%
- Renegotiated key relationships, reducing sub-distribution fees throughout Europe
VP & Managing Broker
Trilogy Group of Companies๐
Vancouver, Canada โ (Apr 2012 - Aug 2013)
- Reported to global stakeholders on multi-hundred million dollar real estate portfolio
- Managed 10-year, $100M Infrastructure financing of 750-acre master-plan community
- Reduced overdue receivables 34%, increased fee revenue 11%
Asset Manager & Owner's Representative
Montreal & Vancouver, Canada โ (Jan 2009 - Mar 2012)
- Prepared term sheets, service proposals, investor presentations, and lease documentation
- Forecast and planned $8M annual F&B business for 2 hotels, 4 outlets, 1,000 licensed seats
Prior
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๐ Education
Masters of Business Administration
SDA Bocconi School of Business,
Milan, Italy - (2013-2014)
Diploma in Urban Land Economics
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada - (2011)
Bachelor of Commerce
University of Victoria,
Victoria, Canada - (2002-2006)
๐ Licenses & Certificates
Managing Broker, Unrestricted
Real Estate Council of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada - (2011)
Certified Specialist, Spirits
Society of Wine Educators,
Vancouver, Canada - (2011)
Intermediate Certificate, Distinction
Wine & Spirits Education Trust,
Vancouver, Canada - (2011)
๐ฃ Languages
English ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฟ๐ฆ๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
Native speaker
German ๐ฉ๐ช
Fluent
Italian ๐ฎ๐น
Intermediate
๐ง Selection of My Publications & Productions
- ๐ Spotify's Podcast Strategy Analysis (2019)
- ๐ Inter-divisional Incentives and Intellectual Property (2018)
- ๐ Why "Security Budget" doesn't Represent Bitcoins Security (2018)
- ๐๏ธ FaultTolerant Podcast - Produced 20 Episodes hosted by MembranLabs engineers about the tech and crypto industries (2018 - 2019)
- ๐๏ธ OffKey Music Podcast - Produced 46 episodes of interviews with recording artists, songwriters, labels, collection societies, managers, and others about the business of music. (2019 - 2020)
- Other Blog Posts Here
๐๏ธTalks ๐ Articles ๐ค Volunteer Events
- ๐ค Winning Team - Sony Music Machine Learning Hackathon (2020)
- ๐๏ธ"Blockchain: What Can It Do Today" - Social Media Week, Hamburg (2019)
- ๐ "Podcast Opens Doors into Music World" - On Pitch (2019)
- ๐ค Jury Member - Music WorX Accelerator, Hamburg (2019)
- ๐๏ธ"Copyright Problem Meets Blockchain Solution" - Blockchain Tech Conf, Berlin (2018)
- ๐ค Mentor's Cafe Mentor - Canadian Music Week (2018)
- ๐๏ธ"Blockchain for Music Payments" - Canadian Music Week (2018)
- ๐ค Coach & Mentor - Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft Sommerakademie (2018)
- ๐๏ธ"Blockchain Meets the Real Economy" - NEXT Conference, Hamburg (2017)
- ๐๏ธ"Blockchain Unchained" - Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (2017)
- ๐ "Membran Battles Bots with Blockchain" - Geeks & Beats (2017)
- ๐๏ธ"Data & Rights Management" - Canadian Music Week (2017)
- ๐ค Mentor's Cafe Mentor - Canadian Music Week (2017)