A big warm welcome to Matt! Put simply… There is no better person for this spot. Matt shares our vision and proudly flies the flag for evolving technologies and decentralisation in the music space.

He’ll be assisting us with media strategy & building further relationships within the broader electronic music space.

The whole team are super excited to start this relationship with Matt and we are eager to share in his wisdom.

More about Matt:

Matt Medved heads Billboard’s dance/electronic music department and cross-department content strategy, founding digital vertical Billboard Dance in 2015 and its Billboard Dance 100 artist rankings in 2018, as well as scaling their growth strategies to other genre verticals. He holds law and master’s degrees from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Matt interviewing at Miami Music Week

Medved hosted the inaugural Electronic Music Awards in 2017 and has been featured and interviewed as a guest expert by The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters, TIME, GQ, CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Access Hollywood and more. He has also spoken at Harvard Business School, SXSW, Winter Music Conference, EDMBiz, Amsterdam Dance Event, Canadian Music Week, International Music Summit, Oceanic Ibiza, XLIVE, and more.

Matt with veteran DJ Carl Cox

As a DJ, producer and curator, Medved has performed at top global festivals like EDC Las Vegas, EDC Japan, Electric Zoo, Billboard Hot 100 Fest, India’s Sunburn Festival and Morocco’s Oasis Festival, signed releases to Interscope and Downtown Records, and regularly contributed to SiriusXM.

Before Billboard, Medved conducted human rights field research and wrote nearly $2 million in funded grants to the US Department of State and USAID as a consultant for conflict resolution NGO Search for Common Ground in Nigeria — where he also reached more than 6 million listeners as a resident DJ at Africa’s largest radio station.