Christopher Wieduwilt

🎵 Helping the music industry enter the #NFT space @ ACOY | Podcast Host @ Digital Punks - Der Music NFT Podcast

How I went from broke musician to helping 100k+ music pros with AI.

I was that kid with a guitar & big dreams:
↳ Started in a garage band at 15. 
↳ Toured the US & Europe.

Lived the highs & lows of the music life. 

After a number of years working in the music industry, I consulted for global brands like Porsche, Lufthansa, Goodyear, and L'Oréal. 

Later, I helped my mom become a bestselling author.

But I never forgot the musician's grind:
↳ That's why I built The AI Musicpreneur.

To help music pros leverage AI for success. 

A resource I wish I had when I was struggling. 

Now serving over 20,000+ musicians, producers & industry professionals monthly, including readers from Warner Music, UnitedMasters, AWAL, Cooking Vinyl, and more. 

My journey taught me success is about helping others.

Start here → aimusicpreneur.com

Founder

🎵 I wish  #NFTs existed 10 - 15 years ago.

I have practically been a music nerd for all my life. 

I used to play in various bands and as a solo artist as well as worked for record labels, organized festivals & managed up and coming artists.

I consider this experience very precious and am thankful for the opportunities I received.

I got to play in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard and toured the entire US.

Ranked up over half a million plays on Myspace (Yes, Myspace did exist back then)

Got featured in the biggest Rock/ Metal magazine in China.

And was on German TV.

Why am I telling you this?

It sounds like that could pay the bills right?

It didn't. AT ALL. It was a +- business.

Independent artists without much representation have it hard. 

Music piracy did not help at the beginning of the century.

And the model of streaming pays independent artists unfairly.

Along came COVID and seriously threatened live music and musicians.

Music NFTs taking off (in the next few years) feels like a resurrection for the music industry to me.
 
🎸 For independent artists NFTs could provide an opportunity to connect with fans in unique ways.

NFTs are not a get-rich-quick scheme, it needs work, but it could enable artists to make a better living than now.

You don't need millions of streams on Spotify, but maybe only a few hundred devoted fans that invest in your journey and see you grow.

💿 Record labels, publishing agencies & more can use NFTs to offer new experiences to music lovers.
At the same time creating new income streams could also mean that more investments go into up and coming artists long-term.

It puts a little bit of the power back into the hands of the music industry.

I've seen artists disappear over the years because they ran out of fuel at some point (financial wise).

Wouldn't it be great to experience live music and at the same time know that the artists performing can provide for themselves and their family?

Let's create your future together.

Christopher Wieduwilt (The AI Musicpreneur)

👋 Ronald Engel

Co-Founder, Managing Director

VIG platform partners

We have planned and established VIG platform partners to drive embedded insurance and other b2b2c plays for insurers of the VIG-Group and also beyond across the CEE and DACH region. 

Our goal is to enable every interested company to (also) be an insurance player.

Chief Executive Officer

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG)

Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) is one of the leading insurance groups in Central and Eastern Europe with 50+ companies in ~30 countries. My job is to support the team at VIG-Holding to drive and foster innovation across the group, to help with transformation and knowledge exchange and to pursue/enable new business opportunities, particularly in the field of ecosystems (mobility, smart living & health) and to roll them out.

Head of Transformation & New Business

RED Consulting

Bundled various advisory, interim management and teaching assignments in the APAC region and Europe in the entity RED Consulting.

Owner

Arthur D. Little

Downsized my fulltime role at Arthur D. Little to take up a different challenge. During the time as senior advisor, I have continue to support in project acquisition and, in particular, delivery of selected projects, mainly in the insurance, IT and private equity areas.

Senior Advisor

Partner in the Financial Services Group - focus on insurtech and insurance innovation

Partner & Global Co-Head of Fintech

Eir Försäkring AB

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Core member insurance and marketing & sales practice areas
Focus on innovation, digital business models and M&A/collaborations.

Partner

Core member insurance practice area. Focus on innovation, digital business models and M&A/collaborations.

Principal

SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe

(1) Strategy advice to the management board (corporate strategy aspects, digitization, IT strategy, sourcing, organization)
(2) Support of the company's current IT performance improvement programme (36 projects) in a responsible role, currently exceeding all financial goals and meeting qualitative KPIs.
(3) Responsibility for the change management initiatives in COO/CIO division

Interim Manager and Board Advisor (ext.)

Bain & Company

Strategy/management consultant with primary industry focus on financial services (additional experience in other industries) and broad implementation experience.

Transferred from Singapore to Munich in Feb. 2008, 
Leave of Absence for "entrepreneurial reasons" since Summer 2012

Consultant/CTL/Manager

Oriental Sun Management Pte. Ltd., Oriental Sun Advisors Co. Ltd.

While on hiatus from the consulting world, I have co-founded Oriental Sun, a private equity company operating out of Singapore and Bangkok. Oriental Sun focuses on solar, wind and biogas/biomass projects in Southeast Asia and Japan.

www.orientalsun.asia

Lorenz & Partners

Based in Bangkok office;
Legal advice particularly in corporate law, projects and international trade, project management (e.g. setup of Vietnam office), business planning, overall responsibility for certain foreign clients, acquisition of new clients

Associate Partner

I focus on insurtech and insurance innovation, i.e. planning and realizing ecosystem plays, digital insurance plays (from building a full stack B2B2X insurer to a captive MGA right now), super apps such as financial homes and everything else that keeps insurers to get their fair share of revenues and margins in tomorrow's markets.

👀I am always looking for new colleagues, who would like to combine analytical challenges and 'building stuff'. 

📞 If you know somebody, pls do not wait - ping me 🙏


🖐 Me: Entrepreneur, management consultant and attorney with 15+ years work experience. 
Currently based in München (Germany) with infrequent visits back to Bangkok.
Started companies/offices in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Germany, 
worked in 6 additional Asian countries, Europe, the Americas & Africa

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Christopher Wieduwilt (The AI Musicpreneur)

👋 Ronald Engel

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