About
Learn about the team, our mission, events, recent press and other dotBC facts
our team
The most experienced founders in music rights management, metadata, technology and business.
BENJI ROGERS
Chief Executive Officer
Benji is a British-born, New York-based entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and the founder of PledgeMusic. An early pioneer of the direct artist-to-fan model of distributing music, Rogers founded PledgeMusic based on the belief that artists should share the process of their artistic output, not just the finished product. Benji now operates as the Chief Strategy Officer at PledgeMusic.
KEN UMEZAKI
Senior Advisor, Interim Chief Business Officer
Ken is an angel investor and business advisor for digital music startups, through his company Digital Daruma, with a specific focus on artist facing music and media service companies. His past experience includes 25 years in financial services trading, asset management and senior management positions.
Chris McMurtry
HEAD OF DATA
Chris is a native of Nashville (Music City, USA), classical composer, technologist, and founder of Dart, The Music Metadata Company™. He continues his mission of ensuring that data does not get in the way of accurate payment and attribution through the development of RAI and as Head of Music at the LA-based payments company, Exactuals.
CHRIS TSE
Chief Technology Officer
Chris is a technologist by trade, a designer in practice, and an entrepreneur at heart. Chris is the co-founder and CTO of Monegraph, where he leads the development of decentralized digital markets with a combination of cloud and blockchain-based tools.
BILL WILSON
Bill is a seasoned entertainment exec with a diverse background in label operations, business development, social media and mobile commerce. He serves as the VP of Digital Strategy and Business Development at the Music Business Association.
ALLEN BARGFREDE
Allen has been working in the Music Industry for over 20 years as a media strategist, lawyer, professor, artist manager, and author. He is a founder of the Rethink Music Initiative at Berklee College of Music as well as the new graduate Global Entertainment and Music Business program at Berklee's Valencia, Spain Campus.
our mission
The primary purposes of Dot Blockchain Media are:
To develop a new media format and supporting technology architecture
To facilitate the media industry’s adoption of the format through advocacy, education, and the establishment of industry standards.
The format and architecture will be provided for the benefit of all musicians, composers, and people in the music industry and its related fields. This format will be provided primarily through open source protocol and licenses, and leveraging blockchain technology methods. The public benefit of these efforts will be to create a fair and transparent way for music artists, music publishers and rights holders to express their rights and wishes for commercializing their art, while dramatically improving the efficiency of how music is delivered across the ever expanding digital library.
As a public benefit corporation, the company will donate at least 5% (and up to 25% at the discretion of management) of all net profits to education organizations for current and future musicians. To be eligible, such organizations must reside in the areas where the PBC is doing business and must be approved charitable entities for tax purposes.
UPCOMING EVENTS
April 6-8: AViD CONNECT, LAS VEGAS
APR 18-19: Dublin Tech Summit, IRELAND
[CANCELLED] April 25, 2018: Blockchain Tech Summit, NYC
/// THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED DATES AND WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO ATTEND ///
MAY 1, 2018: MUSEXPO, Hollywood
MAY 10, 2018: Cryptocreative at Creative Tech Week, NYC
May 14, 2018: MusicBiz, Nashville
MAY 23-25, 2018: INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SUMMIT, Ibiza
MAY 24-25, 2018: The Next Web, Amsterdam
RECENT PRESS
January 2018:
- Article in Industria Musical
NOVEMBER 2017:
- Article in Kadenze
- Interview in Canadian Music Magazine
Aug 2017:
- Interview for MusicAlly
- Article in Noisey
- Article in Complete Music Update
JULY 2017:
Guest Post by Benji: Hypebot
- Mention in LA Weekly
JUNE 2017:
- Mention in Variety Magazine
- MIDEM recap from Music Ally
MAY 2017:
- Interview for MIDEM
Interview for WIRED Magazine, Japan
Benji Rogers on Bryant Nielson’s Blockchain360 Podcast
Keynote Conversation from RIGHTSTech Summit
Short blog post on Music Ally
Membership & Awards
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2016 SF MUSICTECH SUMMIT WINNING STARTUP
2016 DIGITAL MUSIC AWARDS B2B STARTUP WINNER
