Rumblefish is a groundbreaking music and technology company. We provide music licensing and sonic branding services to social media and technology companies, movie and TV production studios, advertisers, video game makers and iconic brands worldwide.
We are focused on providing cutting-edge solutions to the many intellectual property issues facing social media companies, artists, music labels and publishers.
Founded in 1996, our clients include Animoto, YouTube, Google, Kaiser Permanente, Columbia Sportswear, HBO, The CW Network, AMC and others.
Rumblefish is based in Portland, Oregon, and is privately held.
Management
Justyn Baker
Co-President
Justyn started his music business career 10 years ago at Liquid Audio. There he managed one of the largest content ingestion crusades in digital music history by organizing, encoding, and publishing the sound samples contained within Amazon.com and many other music preview sites. From the operations based world of encoding and data management, Justyn moved on to business development and licensing of the Liquid Audio technology. In that capacity, Justyn led his team in developing profitable relationships with lifestyle websites and high profile educational companies. By combining the inbound licensing of music with the outbound licensing of technology, Justyn helped create the next generation of music education and targeted marketing. That experience led Justyn to become the Executive Director of Licensing and Content Services for Naxos, the largest classical music label in the world. At Naxos, Justyn honed his management skills by directing four teams during explosive growth in all of their licensing and digital businesses. Craving a creative environment in which to share his licensing, legal, and digital processing knowledge, Justyn came to Rumblefish to become Director of Catalog.
Steve Zogas
Co-President
Steve Zogas joined Rumblefish in February 2009 as VP of Finance. A native of Portland, Steve spent eight years in the investment banking industry, mostly in New York, and the corporate finance group of UTi Worldwide. During this time, Steve worked closely with private and publicly-traded companies in the industrial, transportation, technology services and manufacturing industries on reviews of strategic alternatives, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, and equity and debt offerings. In addition, Steve has consulted for several privately-held companies in the Northwest that were undertaking major strategic changes, expanding their business or restructuring their operations.
Paul Anthony
Founder
Paul Anthony is Rumblefish's entrepreneurial Pied Piper: his vision for a company that simultaneously improves the quality of music being used by the business world while enabling "middle-class" musicians to earn a good living is what drives Rumblefish's constant evolution.
Paul founded Rumblefish in 1996 after recognizing that music can create powerful emotional connections between organizations and their audiences. Paul also recognized that this is possible only when businesses have easy access to high-quality music. So he and his team began reinventing music licensing.
A musician in his own right, Paul produced recordings with Grammy award-winning artist Sarah McLachlan, composed full orchestral scores for feature films, and frequently co-produce s with established artists such as the King of Funk, George Clinton. Paul frequently shares his expertise with regard to music-related copyright issues, speaking at industry events and giving interviews to a range of media outlets, including CNBC, CNN, Inc. Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Billboard.
Today, Paul's brainchild is thriving: the Rumblefish Music Licensing Store is widely recognized as the leading online source of music for businesses; and Rumblefish's sonic branding practice is setting the standard for the strategic use of music in building brands and delivering transformative customer experiences.
Brad Miele
VP of Technology
Brad Miele has been bending, twisting, mangling, and forcing information technology to succumb to his will since 1994. He started his career in as the Director of Web Operations at HarvardNet, an east coast CLEC. From there he moved into digital media solutions for the internet. Brad spent close to 10 years as the lead architect and then VP of Technology for the Independent Photography Network, managing photography for over 100 independent photographers and agencies. In 2005, Brad migrated the IPN codebase to manage licensing music, and Rumblefish's Music Licensing Store was born.
Brad has moved from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon to join the Rumblefish team. In addition to this incredible career opportunity, he is looking forward to pursuing his favorite leisure activities, most of which involve moving at a high rate of speed through trees, rocks, and soccer players.
Brian Rupp
Creative Director
Brian leads the creative effort at Rumblefish, but he'll be the first to tell you that creativity pervades every aspect of any successful company. With this in mind, Brian plays th e evangelist, preaching the gospel of inventive play and inspired ingenuity to Rumblefish's "creatives" and "non-creatives" alike. For Brian, audiences' indifference and the Gaping Maw of C onvention are the enemies, and he rallies the troops daily by asking, "What if?" and "Why not?"
Previously, Brian was creative director at ID Branding, where he developed comprehensive branding and corporate identity programs for Kodak, Microsoft, Intel, and a bunch of other folks. His passion for music and his belief in its connective powers led him to Rumblefish, where he's able to apply all that he's learned to helping clients project their humanity and build lasting, more meaningful relationships with their audiences.