About | Copyright Delta

Team

Our team, liaisons and advisors bring together seasoned experts in the music industry, its rights and royalties, artificial intelligence, analytics, data privacy, banking, blockchain technologies, platform strategies, innovation diplomacy and copyright law.
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We have led multiparty consortia, built and designed multiple software systems and platforms (data analytics, neural networks and blockchains), worked in many sections of the music industry, legally represented global IP-owners and managed global DJs.

Several in our leadership started early-on in AI, knowing the impact it would bring to societies, and combine permissioned and public decentralised systems to create Accountable AI.

Our core technologies apply to more industries.

Daan Archer

CEO

Partners, Product & Platforms. AI lead for a music industry association with 270+ member organisations. Software data startups and music industry since 2013. 20 years software architect & engineer (AI, data). DLT since 2015. Former Dutch technology diplomat in Japan (MinEA), MIT Sloan Fellow, MIT Media Lab and Fulbright Scholar. Key strengths are strategic partnerships, software products and multiparty win-win strategies. In 2016 aligned 200+ companies in the US music industry to agree on an open API data exchange. MBA MIT, MSc AI. Accredited Ai technology advisor to the Dutch police.

Olaf van Wijk

CTO

Lead blockchain architect, developer and digital identity expert. 20+ years experience in software development, data and AI. Fmr data analytics at KLM & core IOTA advisory tech team (solved a huge scaling problem in IOTA). Token model expert. Loves Rust.

Stephane Moquette

Chief Product Officer

Also lead developer for the AI Opt-Out-In portal. 15+ years software development. Expert data scientist. Guru in Python Pandas. Also has built our Royalty Processing & Analytics Engine. In his previous roles at large organisations he often quickly became lead since never loses the bigger picture. Early on organised indie music raves.

Mars Mertens

Lead Rightsholders, Metadata & Interoperability

Expert in metadata and music rights. Knows the backend of the music industry inside-out, standards, identifiers, organisations etc. Worked in music operations for 30+ yrs at Buma/Stemra, Fuga, [PIAS], Ziggo, Talpa, Juke etc.

Anna Fahey

(new) Co-lead Biz Dev CMOs & Ops

Expert in music, royalties, rights & web3. Former Head of CMOs & Artists at Soundbox, Lead Biz Dev & Ops at online startups (including Multiverse) and IAFAR Education Committee. Early-on classical musician (7 yrs in Italy) and PA to a CEO within the Gruppo Banca Sella (€14B AUM). MA and BA in Music. Irish based in London.

Daniele Musio

Head of Design

UI, UX, HTML5, Branding. Webflow guru. Fmr at Eindhoven Design Academy and famous design studios in Italy.

Mario Olislaegers

Lead Corda developer

Lead Corda developer. Senior enterprise software engineer (blockchain, identity). Lead engineer of the DRX IP Network. Also leads our ING stablecoin pilot on the technical side. Java, Kotlin, ReactJS. Token model and stablecoin expert.

Philipp Stürmer

AI Lead & software developer.

Reverse engineering generative AI-music into fractional & derivative ownership. Earlier built our AI-analytics engine to decode live music to ownership (live venues, 1B+ live recordings on Youtube, TikTok etc). Comes from JADS, our data monastery partner with 2000+ data scientists. Applied PhD in AI. MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

Niall McEvoy

Senior software engineer

Formerly worked 10 years at Irdeto (1000+ FTE) as principal software engineer). Expert in Django, VMware, AWS etc. Originally from Ireland and now based in the Netherlands.

Andrew Melchior

Advisory Board

(new) Globally renowned creative technologist and producer (Music, AR, VR, 3D, Gaming etc). Eg CTO of Massive Attack, worked extensively with Björk, David Bowie (built BowieNet), Elbow etc. Named “Creative Leaders 50” in 2017

Miel Soeterbroek

Lead DevOps engineer

AWS, Java, APIs etc. 15+ years software development.

Geert Theuws

Of Counsel

Legal Expert in IP and copyright law. Corporate lawyer. Also expert in music copyright and AI. Former partner at the famous boutique Hoyng Rokh Monegier, where he won multiple high-profile global cases. He also was lead counsel on the famous (and successful) Dutch ASML lawsuit vs Nikon. Longtime friend of Copyright Delta.

Advisory Board

Mariana Gomez de la Villa

ING Blockchain & Innovation lead. Fintech guru. 10+ yrs PSPs (payment service providers). CeFPro Advisory Board. High-energy, action-oriented, strategic expert with 20 yrs in financial industry. Fmr WEF, Citibank & GlobalCollect.

Turo Pekari

Globally recognized music industry executive. Expert in CMOs. Leads global innovation for Music Finland. Co-founder of Music Tech Europe. Formerly at Teosto (Finland’s national CMO), and digital innovation exec for Finnish Government & EU. Advisor to many music/business programs.

Michael Lau

National Chair of Association Of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP). Ops. Comm. Member The MLC (US). Former COO & CTO Round Hill Music (Capital), Open Music Initiative & Warner Chappell. Advisor & Mentor NYU Steinhardt Music & Berklee College of Music.

Scott Cohen

Founding CEO of JKBX (the “Robin Hood for Music Rights” with 2B+ USD in assets), fmr Chief Innovation Officer at Warner Music Global, cofounder of The Orchard, the first digital music distributor, with exit to Sony in 2015. Social Activist.

Joe Conyers

Senior Advisor Warburg Pincus ($85B AUM). In his career oversaw $300MM in M&A. Fmr co-founder Songtrust (exit to Downtown Music Holdings where he became Chief Strategy. 600 FTE, 700MM USD rev). Fmr EVP Crypto.com when they grew to over $1B in revenue. Recognized by Billboard Magazine as key strategist in music and creative innovation at intersection of finance and media.

Ed Simnett

Global Technology Executive, Alchemist mentor. Fmr Nokia, Microsoft, GigaOM. Created strategy and delivered new products in diverse technology segments for multinationals and start-ups. Launched a $1B business for Microsoft Azure. HBS MBA & Baker Scholar. Loves to solve hard problems.

Paul Chodirker

Dir. Enterprise Media BizDev Avalanche. Expert in music legal and Web3. Fmr Polygon Labs (Dir. Entertainment & BD), NEAR (Head BD & partnerships), Live Nation (Senior Dir. business affairs) and media lawyer at Gilbert's LLP. For 8+ yrs he arranged legals for tours from eg U2, Lady Gaga, Madonna.

Sanne Kanis

Expert Biz Dev in Tech and Media. CEO and Founder of Abel Podcasts. Former executive at Spotify UK, Google NL, Booking. Published author of 3 books. Former columnist at the Dutch FT on tech and innovation. Insead MBA.

Mike Sheetal

20+ years expert global games and marketing. CEO and founder of e-sports and games agency PlayBrain (Tokyo). Earlier co-founded creative agency UltraSuperNew (9 yrs, 60 FTE, Japan & Singapore). Has worked closely with global brands like Red Bull, Riot Games, Blizzard, EA, Supercell, Nike, Beats, Bandai Namco, Taito etc. Australia native living in Tokyo for 15+ years.

Jasper Wagenmans

Leadership at David Lewis Agency. Worked with global top in EDM (DJs, labels, publishers). Expert in Talent Management, Marketing & Strategic Partnerships. Longtime friend of Copyright Delta.

Alicia DeSantola

Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Univ. of Washington. Organisational Behavior & Startup Scaling PhD from Harvard Business School & award winning thesis analyzing the success and failure of 6,000 startups. Former consultant. PhD & Fellow HBS, MS Stanford.

Michiel Jonkman

Senior investment manager at the largest Dutch public-private investment fund. Expert in alternative financing and CAIA. Formerly PE M&A in Shanghai. MBA from CEIBS and HKUST in Hong Kong.

Governance Board

Daan Archer

Jason Kap

Global software licensing expert. CEO of high-end technology advisory and software company. Former partner at Microsoft (under CEO) where for 10 years he eg was responsible the price of Windows worldwide. Former MIT Sloan Fellow with Daan.

Olaf van Grieken

Of Counsel and former Partner at VanLoman tax legal advisory (50 FTE, global clients). Has extensive experience in structuring investments in EU, US, and Japan. Fmr Coopers & Lybrand and KPMG Meijburg. Has three MAs: business economics, law and accountancy.