Biography
Biography
b.1969
Paris, FR
companies FOUNDED
Original Works
Revelator
Quango Music Group
Work
Island Outpost
Cirque du Soleil
Oliver Peoples
Born in Paris, France, Bruno studied Ethnomusicology at UCLA and started his music business career in Los Angeles in 1993, after founding the record label, Quango Music Group.
Through Quango, Bruno quickly became a tastemaker DJ on LA’s seminal radio station KCRW 89.9fm and underground clubs such as Ponana Souk, BoKaos and BossaNova.
Bruno’s A&R skills caught the ear of legendary industry executive and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, and soon after Quango became a subsidiary of Blackwell’s Island Records, later moving to Blackwell’s Palm Pictures.
Through Island Records, Quango released early music from the likes of Kruder and Dorfmeister, Howie B, Rockers HiFi, Tricky, Sneaker Pimps, Basement Jaxx, Bomb the Bass and Talvin Singh amongst many others.
In between 2001-2004 Bruno signed and developed breakthrough artists Zero 7 (Sia), Koop and Bitter:Sweet, finding success in digital markets, sync licensing through film, television, and advertising.
Alongside the label, Bruno served as Creative Director for Guy Laliberte’s Cirque du Soleil, crafting the soundtracks of the live entertainment shows.
Bruno’s interest in music curation began in 1995 when Chris Blackwell asked him to create the musical experience for his boutique Island Outpost Hotels. This landmark lifestyle branding work continues to this day, not only for the resorts but also Chris Blackwell’s Spotify channel.
Over the last 25 years, Bruno’s work in branding helped define the music identity of many lifestyle brands and retail experiences, including luxury eyewear company Oliver Peoples, the Standard Hotel and vintage retailer American Rag.
In 2010, Bruno realized his record label Quango would need new tooling to grow, and saw a clear opportunity to build a better music industry by providing greater transparency in copyright management and royalty reporting.
The explosion of data, and the lack of modern solutions would become a challenge for labels and publishers to provide the core services to their artists and writers. If he wanted to continue running a digital music business, he needed to build an integrated solution that would be as easy to use as a web or mobile application – It was time for Revelator to be born.
By the summer of 2012, Bruno had built the foundation of Revelator - a copyright management and data platform for digital business. Today, Revelator manages close to 1 million sound recordings, serves over 100,000 rights holders, processes over 10 billion transactions per year, and generates over 200,000 monthly royalty statements.
By 2018, it was clear that a new technical, economic and legal framework was needed to effectively secure and protect intellectual property rights, efficiently register copyrights, increase the speed of royalty collection, frequency of distributions, with fully transparent account reporting, and instant payments.
To address these challenges, Bruno introduced Original Works, a digital asset platform and payment network for creative IP secured on the blockchain, to enable creators and rights owners to register their creative work, license rights and define how their content is used online, easily manage splits with collaborators via smart contracts, receive royalties as they are generated (vs. months), and get paid directly to a digital wallet.
Revelator is innovating with cloud-based and distributed ledger technologies to build the first truly Open Distributed Platform for IP Rights, with the objective to provide greater transparency, efficiency and speed for the global management of digital assets, rights administration, royalty collections and distribution of payments.
Bruno aims to set a new standard for the creative industry by modernizing an aging legacy copyright stack with modern protocols for creative works administration. His goal is to build a bridge to the future of copyright; one that is digital, open, fast, programmable, compliant and liquid.