JOEL STONER

Global music technology company providing SaaS solutions for broadcasters, studios and collection societies.

Our products enable accurate and timely reporting of music usage information to collection societies ensuring correct royalty tracking and payments for rights holders

• Responsible for training, integrating and documenting all new clients to the Orfium Product
• Responsible for creating and managing the Audio Recognition and User Experience Pilots Teams, who are focussed on engaging and promoting the Orfium service to new prospective clients
• Responsible for creating and managing the missing composers team, who are focussed on contacting and building relationships with composers globally.
• Responsible for managing relationships with all partnered record labels, publishers, production libraries and composers globally, for our music reporting, licensing and audio recognition platforms
• Working directly with Broadcast and online media companies from around the globe to integrate their systems into the Orfium service
• Primary contact point for high value suppliers, ensuring proactive management of their catalogues
• Expert knowledge of music markets in multiple territories, negotiating access to overseas rights holders' music.
• Accomplished lead presenter at many music conference events globally
• Controlled multiple projects, including onboarding of clients, outreach, to timely release of brand-new software services

• Wrote, arranged & mixed tracks, creating original compositions, released under multiple established music production libraries Including Cavendish, No Sheet Music , Lucid Productions & Figure and Groove
• Wrote, arranged & mixed various tracks creating original compositions, including main theme for UKTVs Classic Car Garage TV show and character themes for Sleepy the Bear NHS Charity animation film.

• Responsible for managing relationships and delivery of music and metadata from all partnered record labels, publishers, production libraries and composers globally, for our music reporting, licensing and audio recognition platforms
• Responsible for creating and managing the Audio Recognition and User Experience Pilots Teams, who are focussed on engaging and promoting the Soundmouse service to new prospective clients
• Responsible for creating and managing the missing composers team, who are focussed on contacting and building relationships with composers globally.
• Working directly with record labels to ensure accurate reporting to collection societies so that payments are made correctly
• Expert knowledge of music copyright practices, to advise new composers and artists on copyright and reporting processes allowing them to self-serve with PROs
• High success rate in sourcing all new music suppliers across multiple territories, ensuring accurate reporting and royalty payments through complete catalogue delivery
• Primary contact point for high value suppliers, ensuring proactive management of their catalogues
• Successfully negotiated contracts with 300 record labels and production libraries to enable the release of a brand-new music search and clearance platform for broadcasters, a revolutionary new platform for radio, TV and streaming
• Maintain a network of 100s of strong personal and professional relationships within the music industry, that I often leverage to ensure capture of high proportion of released music
• Expert knowledge of music markets in multiple territories, negotiating access to overseas rights holders' music.
• Accomplished lead presenter at many music conference events globally
• Controlled multiple projects, including onboarding of clients, outreach, to timely release of brand-new software services

• Ran continual audit of existing music supplier relationships to ensure consistent delivery of music, to ensure high music detection rates resulting in better royalty payments to rights holders
• Ensuring high quality metadata delivery, working directly with large suppliers to ensure data formats and consistency were kept leading to 50% increase in user engagement with platform
• Lead trainer for Soundmouse music delivery, enabling even small suppliers to self-serve

• Managed long-term customer relationships
• Maintained Artists registrations at PROs
• Maintained database of rights holder metadata to increase potential earnings
• Tracked music sales of artists catalogue
• Ran events evenings and stage managed artists