- 36+ years in financial markets and private equity
- Extensive experience in restructuring and venture capital
- Entrepreneur and strategic investor
- Focused on long-term growth and innovation
Company
The People Behind MusiMap
MusiMap combines musicologists, engineers, strategists, and industry veterans with decades of experience across music, technology, research, licensing, and innovation.
Together, they help build the industry's deepest understanding of music.
60+
Experts
musicologists, researchers, and annotators
1M+
Tracks Annotated
expert-validated ground truth
40+
Years of Industry Experience
across music, media, and technology
2008
Founded
when research became a company
Built by experts, not only algorithms
Behind MusiMap is a multidisciplinary network of more than 60 musicologists, researchers, annotators, psychologists, sociologists, engineers, and industry specialists.
Their work created the human knowledge base that powers MusiMap's technology.
Leadership & Core Team
- Producer, recording engineer, and music tech entrepreneur
- 40+ years across music, media, and entertainment
- Specialist in licensing, production, film, radio, and television
- Produced more than 100 albums
- Music Committee Member of EarthPercent
- 40+ years building and leading innovative technology companies
- 11 years in Music Intelligence, including work with key accounts
- Pioneer in digital cinema for more than 20 years
- Engineering background, now focused on strategic business development
- 25+ years as a technology leader and entrepreneur
- Cloud architecture and distributed systems specialist
- Builder of large-scale data and AI platforms
- Studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels, bringing a musician's perspective to the technology behind MusiMap.
- Leading the transformation of decades of music research into scalable technology
- Sociologist and musicologist
- 30+ years in film and television sound design
- Former Production Director at Canal+ Belgium
- Former Production Director at nWave Pictures
- Co-creator of MusiMap's Music Intelligence foundations
- 35+ years in the music industry
- Former executive at EMI France, Roadrunner France, and Naïve Records
- Founder and publisher within the independent music sector
- Former board member of UPFI and SPPF
- Specialist in repertoire, publishing, and label strategy
Engineering
The engineers who build and maintain the software behind MusiMap's music intelligence platform.
- Works on the internal microservices that form the backbone of MusiMap's platform
- Builds backend systems in Python and Django, with PostgreSQL handling core platform data
- Scales and secures shared services to maintain dependability across growing fingerprinting, profiling, and catalogue workloads
- Contributes to MusiMap's audio fingerprinting pipelines, combining deep learning with large-scale vector search using Milvus and TensorFlow
- Connects fingerprint models to the platform through Python and Django backend services
- Brings a telecommunications engineering background, specializing in signal processing, with PhD-level research experience
- Brings more than 10 years of experience building customer-facing web applications
- Turns MusiMap's music intelligence into clear, usable web experiences
- Works in React and modern JavaScript, with a product-minded focus on structure, performance, and maintainability
Join the journey
We're always interested in meeting exceptional people who share our passion for music, technology, and innovation.