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London, England, United Kingdom

MDLBEAST is a rapidly expanding, Saudi Arabian music entertainment company that launched with the flagship ‘Soundstorm’ music festival in 2019. MDLBEAST Records launched in 2021 with massive global growth ambitions and a specific remit to nurture and build the rapidly developing music market in Saudi Arabia and across the MENA region.Contracted to develop a strategy and operational plan to grow the label into the market leading indie. Overseeing all areas of label operations, this included setting label and organisational structures.Achievements:Explosive growth to break-even in 2024. Built a dynamic and diverse team based in 8 x countries. Developed a multi-genre label structure, releasing music from A list international, regionally established and local debut artists.A&R:150 artist signings (360, multi-album, single deals, ancilliary rights) including MDLBEAST’s first No.1 album artist Tul8te.Strategy & execution for 4 community based dance-labels. All labels now driving revenues to the wider MDLBEAST events and venues businesses.New Business:Launched MDLBEAST Publishing; multiple sync deals, strategic partnerships with major music libraries, international artist engagement in multiple production camps.Operations:Negotiated key partner deals with Believe, The Orchard, Empire and Too Lost; Multiple agencies, Royalty Share reporting; Lime Blue Neighbouring Rights.Delivered 20% annual cost saving in 2024 through improved financial operations and efficiencies.Identified opportunities to drive rapid international growth through a new M&A focused business development strategy.Marketing:Marketing strategy for global A list artists including management of multi-functional teams across 10+ territories.Engaged market leading global agencies across all specialities inc digital marketing, data analysis and PR & promo, many UK based.Oversight of creative and content delivery at all budget levels.

London, England, United Kingdom

Hi Consulting is a business and brand strategy consultancy practise working with music, events and tech businesses. Recent Projects: Circus RecordsGroup of 3 labels: Circus, Electric and DPMO Records. Contracted to deliver a thorough review of existing business strategy across A&R, Digital, Marketing and Operations, to drive growth in revenue, reach and operational efficiencies.Launched new label Circus Electric (2nd biggest label in the group).Increased streaming revenue from non-catalogue releases by 100%, through community driven marketing approach, playlist growth strategy and increased the focus on live events.Delivered organisational restructure including new hires in A&R, Marketing and Promotions. Brought in key marketing and PR agency partners, increasing operational efficiencies.'Thanks so much for working on this. You've done a great job and genuinely feel this is the first step towards making the next phase of the business work.' - Andrew Neill, General Manager, Circus Recordings & Maximum Boost Management

London

CampaignAmp is a marketing technology start-up focused on collaboration and data analytics for the entertainment sector.Conceptualised, built and grew CampaignAmp platform from start-up to scale-up. Delivered across all areas, from business plan to product ideation, growing to a team of 20 working with some of world's leading entertainment, retail and fashion marketing organisations across 15 territories worldwide.Clients included Live Nation, Universal Pictures International, Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Dunn Humby, Eastpak and multiple independent labels and PR agencies.Highlights include, raising multiple investment rounds, building and management of the CampaignAmp teams (including successful apprentice and diversity programmes), negotiation and sales of multiple large scale enterprise contracts with multi-national corporations, product delivery, onboarding and roll out (including change management) across large corporate clients (multi-department and multi-territory).

London, England, United Kingdom

Ministry of Sound (UK) is the world famous brand born out of the club venue in London and the dance music movement of the 90s, that grew into a world class entertainment company. It was the biggest independent record label in the world until the recordings business was acquired by Sony Music Entertainment in 2016.MD in the 150 pax strong organisation during the most consistently profitable period in the company's history.Ultimate responsibility for delivering major bottom line profits, while ensuring high quality music products hit the market. Control of overall group budgets, and key relationship management with The7Stars, a leading London media agency.Remit covered new businesses (digital, headphones, barsl) strategy development, brand partnerships, delivery and control across digital business, with a heavy focus on digital marketing, e-commerce and social media. Integrated consumer analytics and research to develop new products and services, and focused on delivering new business streams and diversifying the group’s brand interests.

Responsibility for all marketing and creative output across the group including Ministry of Sound Recordings and marquee Ministry of Sound and HedKandi brands. Projects included: Ecommerce website development for Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi brands. Brand partnership with Nissan Juke.Licensing deal for new range of headphones stocked in premium retailers such as Dixon’s & HMV.Conception and launch of Hed Kandi Bar concept.

London, England, United Kingdom

Overall P&L responsibility for the record label during its most successful period (15 No.1 singles). Launched new label Hard2Beat Records, No.1 album with Basshunter and sold 300K albums for Sash! in 3 months. Oversaw the transition from singles based strategy to album artists with Top 5 debut albums for Example and Wretch 32.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed a team of product managers, delivering groundbreaking marketing campaigns including a number of genre defining music videos.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom