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I’m VP of Audio at Stability AI. I previously founded Jukedeck, an AI music generation…
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Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Judge
AI Song Contest
- 1 year
Arts and Culture
I helped bring together the team for the first AI Song Contest, held in 2020, and served on the judging panel.
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Expert
CDI Apps for Good
- 2 years
Children
Held advice sessions on User & Market Insight and Idea Screening with pupils at The Abbey School and Wilmington Grammar School for Boys to help them develop their apps.
Publications
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StructureNet: Inducing Structure in Generated Melodies
International Society for Music Information Retrieval
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Why I Took The Founders Pledge
Medium
Why I signed the Founders Pledge, a new initiative that removes the barriers to entrepreneurs getting involved in philanthropy.
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Tidal: fighting the wrong enemy
Tech City News
There may be problems with the business model behind music streaming, but Tidal isn't solving any of them.
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Why Facebook won't be feeling threatened by Ello... yet
The Independent
What it will take for another social network to beat Facebook.
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iOS 8 is full of shiny new features - but it's terrible news for app developers
The Independent
How the ever-expanding remits of the biggest tech companies are killing startups.
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The Joy of Working to a Brief
Medium
Why constraints and deadlines are the key to creativity.
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A World In Which Computers Can Write Music
The Huffington Post
Computers that can write tunes and the future of music.
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Laura Marling at Secret Music
The Spectator
How Laura Marling and Secret Music are reinventing the concert.
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We should be teaching kids to make programs like Word, not how to use them
The Spectator
Why coding is a continuation of the long tradition of kids making things, and how it's being encouraged by the Make Things Do Stuff campaign.
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We Need To Start Calling Ourselves Feminists
Medium
Why I think we should be more honest about being feminists.
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Making music
The Spectator
Michael Breidenbruecker talks about Last.fm, RjDj and the future of music.
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You Can Already Code - You Just Don't Know It Yet
Medium
Why I think you can already code.
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Beyond the elite
The Spectator
Charles Hazlewood and whether classical music is a birth-right.
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Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
Boosey & Hawkes
A choral setting of the famous poem by Mary Frye.
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Classical affair
The Spectator
Stephen Fry and James Rhodes talk about the place of Classical music today.
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Read on
The Spectator
Handing out free books on the streets of London for World Book Night.
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Hymn to the Night
Boosey & Hawkes
A choral setting of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow's poem.
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Secret Cinema
The Spectator
A review of Secret Cinema's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Patents
Honors & Awards
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20:40 Leader of the Future
20:40
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Cannes Innovation Lion Winner
Cannes Innovation Lions
Jukedeck won an Innovation Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
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WIRED Audi Innovation Awards - Nominee in AI
WIRED
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/innovation-in-ai
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Winner of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015
TechCrunch
Jukedeck won first prize at TechCrunch Disrupt, a startup competition judged by a panel of investors and industry experts.
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100 Hottest European Startups 2015
WIRED
Jukedeck were named one of WIRED's Hottest European Startups of 2015.
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Founders Forum Rising Star
Founders Forum
Spoke at the 2015 Founders Forum in London, a gathering of leading digital and technology entrepreneurs.
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Winner of Pitch@Palace 3.0
Pitch@Palace
Jukedeck won Pitch@Palace 3.0, a startup competition organised and hosted by HRH The Duke of York. The pitches were given to a room full of industry experts in St James's Palace.
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Winner of the LeWeb Startup Competition
LeWeb
Jukedeck won the 2014 LeWeb Startup Competition in Paris, judged by a panel of leading technologists.
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Winner of Google Launchpad
Google Launchpad
Google Launchpad was a week-long incubator run out of Google Campus in London - a week of talks and one-on-one mentoring on everything from User Research to Product to Tech.
At the end of the week, the startups involved took to the stage one by one to present to a room full of investors, Google employees and other startups - and we were judged the winner. -
Winner of Vator Splash London
Vator
Jukedeck won Vator Splash London, the startup pitch competition held in Canary Wharf judged by a panel of leading VCs and investors including Index Ventures, Passion Capital and MMC Ventures.
Fifty startups applied, and I was one of ten finalists to give a 3-minute pitch to the judges and assembled crowd at Level39. Jukedeck was selected as the winner, with the prizes including £20k worth of services from Rackspace, Taylor Wessing and Blick Rothenberg as well as meetings with several of…Jukedeck won Vator Splash London, the startup pitch competition held in Canary Wharf judged by a panel of leading VCs and investors including Index Ventures, Passion Capital and MMC Ventures.
Fifty startups applied, and I was one of ten finalists to give a 3-minute pitch to the judges and assembled crowd at Level39. Jukedeck was selected as the winner, with the prizes including £20k worth of services from Rackspace, Taylor Wessing and Blick Rothenberg as well as meetings with several of the VCs present.
There's a write-up of the event here: http://startups.co.uk/london-based-music-software-start-up-awarded-20000-prize-at-leading-tech-pitching-competition/
"Dream startup team with deceptively simple product for decent digital music. Just a 'hits module' short of a boy band." - Richard Muirhead, Managing Partner at Firestartr.co.
"I was delighted to be involved in the judging panel. The standard was incredibly high but Jukedeck stood out for its confident pitch and neat solution to very clear use cases in multiple markets." - Rory Stirling, Partner, MMC Ventures.
"They have a very talented team and are solving a problem that has both commercial value and potential to scale." - Emma Lloyd, Director of Corporate Development & Partnerships and British Sky Broadcasting. -
Grade 8 (Music Theory)
ABRSM
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DipABRSM (Flute)
ABRSM
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Grade 8 (Piano)
ABRSM
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Grade 8 (Singing)
ABRSM
Languages
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C++
Limited working proficiency
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Objective-C
Professional working proficiency
Organizations
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Founders Pledge
Member
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