About The Speaker
Alex Branson
SVP, Music Services, Beatport
With a career spanning 20+ years in the music industry, Alex is currently SVP of Music Services at Beatport, the division which operates and develops a wide variety of tools and services to support the artists, labels and suppliers on Beatport including ampsuite, LabelRadar and Hype.
Before joining Beatport, Alex helped support the international development of EMPIRE. He also provided advisory services to Facebook, Rotor Videos, iMusician and other companies in the music tech space.
Past work also includes creating a startup inside Warner Music Group, levelmusic.com. Built INgrooves ex-NA business from the ground up. Management roles in companies that; negotiated the first collective DSP agreements for members of trade body AIM, built one of the first digital supply chain technologies (Rightsrouter), launched a music service for Nokia (via Frukt), co-founded one of the UK’s first digital distribution companies (alexlee). Many years also spent in record companies including, Sony Music, The Lost Generation, In Music & Media Records.