A continuous theme throughout projects that Ron manages has been to build technologies that enable people to work better, faster and cheaper by first studying the underlying business processes and then engineering flexible solutions. Ron is a former Psychology Professor with expertise in usability, information architecture, user experience (UX), certified by IBM (Rational) in object oriented analysis and design for large scale projects.
Ron's introduction to the music industry was bootlegging Grateful Dead albums, and he has had a strong interest ever since. Ron routinely DJs and is the host for Ann Arbor's Network Downtown and is a former Ann Arbor city councilman. He was the first person to use podcasting for fans to preview music before a show by encoding event metadata into the MP3 - ID3 tags (May, 2005 Detroit Electronic Music Festival).
Prabode has 12 years of experience in building state of the art software applications using J2EE and Ruby. For the past 4 years he is mostly programming in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Prabode likes to play hockey, volleyball and squash when he is not hacking with code.
Prabode is a certified IBM Rational consultant and he holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Statistics from University of Colombo.
Stephen graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelors degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 2004. This degree provided a solid basis for Human Factors in computing systems as well as the design of systems for optimal efficiency. After graduating, Stephen worked in the Intellectual Property department of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, a top tier New York law firm.
He then moved on to Investment Technology Group, a technology based brokerage firm on Wall Street where he provided high level transaction cost analysis presentations to clients. Stephen also designed and oversaw the implementation of an automated system for the production and delivery of quarterly reports.
As Product Manager for Loud Feed, Stephen defines our iterative incremental development process by creating milestones for the Loud Feed product. Stephen is also in charge of User Experience for the Loud Feed product and manages consulting projects including user interface design and usability testing. In addition to the design of the product's interface, Stephen works with Google Analytics to report on user behavior at sites for our clients and thus improve conversion rates through the sales funnel.
An entrepreneur who always has a big idea to share, Henry has an addiction to anything related to new media, the music biz and the latest ‘cool’ companies. In charge of Business development for Loud Feed, Henry draws on his knowledge and understanding of the digital music landscape to position Loud Feed for success. In addition to marketing and sales for the company, Henry hopes to establish long term profitable strategic partnerships with companies that will help artists and labels monetize their content. He is also the co-founder of AIRDROP a label that is taking the lead on bridging the ways of doing business in the digital age, while preserving some of our current music heritage by pressing limited edition vinyl.
Graduating from Tufts University in 2007 with a BA in International Relations and Entrepreneurial Leadership, Henry worked hard to lead and learn what entrepreneurship and business were about in a worldwide marketplace. Influenced in part by Mark Twain’s saying “never let school get in the way of your education,” he became an avid reader and thinker as well as took time off from Tufts University to get hands on experience at Oriel Wines, a NYC based start up where he sold and marketed their wines.
From his humble business beginnings buying and selling cell phones, countless odd jobs, then wine, to launching AIRDROP, Henry has learned that an idea is only a fraction of what it takes to be successful and that great execution is what gives light to great ideas.
Business and corporate attorney with substantial experience in handling intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) transactions from multiple roles and perspectives, including contract drafting and negotiation, intellectual property protection and portfolio management, legal compliance, and IP due diligence and chain of title analysis. Carol also has Fortune 500 business-side and management consulting experience in contracts management.
Started Toolshed in 2001 to provide new media promotion, digital music service licensing, and online strategy services to a select list of Media and Entertainment clients, as well as state-of-the-art digital promotion tools. Toolshed handles new media promotion for independent artists as diverse as Ani DiFranco, Spoon, XTC, The Chemical Brothers, Cat Power, and Sleater-Kinney, and for record labels representing the cream of the crop of worldwide independent music, including the Beggars Group, Matador Records, Touch and Go, Merge Records, Righteous Babe Records, Kill Rock Stars, Saddle Creek, and and many others. Prior to his creation of Toolshed, Huey started, and for five years developed and ran, the new media department at the Beggars Group (XL Recordings, Too Pure, Matador Records, Beggars Banquet, 4AD). Dick is a new media committee member for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) headquartered in New York, as well as a legal committee member of the independent rights initiative MERLIN. Dick is also a Sound Exchange Board member, representing Matador Records, serving on the licensing, communications, and new business committees. Dick provides consulting services to a variety of international rights organizations, as well as to independent digital service provider Consolidated Independent, and the Playlouder MSP. Dick's latest initiative is Syndicated Planet, a distribution network for tastemaker independent music.
The founder of MyReggae.com, a site built by Loud Feed, which uses Loud Feed tools as the backend to manage digital music content and related metadata. Gary founded RAS Records in 1979, which he recently sold to Sanctuary. He established a reputation as Doctor Dread, DJ for a major Washington DC radio station (WHFS), where the songs of Reggae greats like Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff first reached the airwaves. Gary is also a former Sound Exchange Board Member.
