Team

Our Industry Experts

Core Members

Brian Nguyen

Founder | Platform & Product Development

Blockchain Consultant at Accenture. Independent investor and NFT collector. Previously worked with and advised Sushiswap, Animoca Brands, and Redacted Cartel.

https://twitter.com/DeFi_Brian

Andre Benz

Co-Founder | CEO

Founder of The Nations, the world’s largest electronic music curation network, with 50M+ subscribers. Founder of Lowly, an independent record label for emerging artists.

https://twitter.com/benzspeaks

Paris Blohm

Founder | Production & Art Direction

Internationally renowned DJ with 15+ years in the music industry. Manager and Creative Director of KLOUD, an immersive art-forward electronic project, and a member of pleasrDAO.

https://twitter.com/ParisBlohm

Matt Forrest

Creative Director

10+ years of experience working with brands and artists in entertainment, with an emphasis on disrupting pop culture through unique collaborations. Worked with artists such as G-Eazy, Tyga, Tommy Genesis and Bia.

https://twitter.com/mattforrestxyz

Daniel Witcoff

Head of Artist Partnerships

Daniel has spent ~10 years in the music industry helping artists develop as an A&R, manager, and creative director. Earned 100M+ streams and partnerships with companies from SONY to Ubisoft to Netflix.

https://twitter.com/dontfightdaniel

Armin Sadeghzadeh

Head of Operations

Project manager and solution designer with 9+ years experience. Musician and producer with insight into creating artist-centric products.

https://twitter.com/AlarminAlarmin

Mike Gao

Chief Technology Officer

Developer and Music Producer. Audiovisual Unreal Engine and C++ sorcerer. Developed profound iOS music apps for music theory (Polyplayground) and beatbox recognition. Was CTO of one of the most feature rich Web 2.0 music platforms.

https://twitter.com/MIKEGAO

Sarah Brackett

Community Manager

Community Manager, Project & Social Coordinator at The Nations. Helped to grow and develop various artist and brand communities across all platforms.

https://twitter.com/sarbaeee

Advisors

PplPleasr

Founder of Pleasr Dao

OG DeFi artist.

https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1

Julia Yan

Head of Growth at TikTok

Julia is a growth leader focused on consumer product, tech, and media. Her experience in building growth engines and scaling product adoption from zero to one enabled companies like Amazon and TikTok to achieve unprecedented hyper growth.

https://twitter.com/juliagotya

Crypto Valley

Advisor

Founder of 0xValley. Turned 5E into 2000E. Advising on product market fit.

https://twitter.com/spiritazuki

Cooper Turley

Advisor

Coopahtroopa helped create Friends with Benefits, an exclusive, token-gated community on chat app Discord, where only people who own the FWB token can join the club. Turley is also a strategist for Audius, a decentralized, music-streaming alternative to Spotify and Pandora, and he advises Variant Fund, a crypto investment firm started by ex-Andreessen Horowitz partner Jesse Walden.

https://twitter.com/Cooopahtroopa