We’re music people. We’re brand builders. We aspire to inspire. And we’re full of good ideas.
Paul Anthony
Founder and CEO
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-produces 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.
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 the 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 Convention 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.
Brad Miele
Director of Technology
Brad Miele has been bending, twisting, mangling, and forcing information technology to succumb to his will since 1994. In his early days, he took advantage of his endless drive and lack of need for sleep to propel HarvardNET, a startup DSL and web service provider, to one of the most successful competitive local exchange carriers on the eastern seaboard. As HarvardNET's director of web operations, he oversaw the creation, administration and growth of the company's web product division.
Next, Brad dove into new media as the lead developer for Auroraphotos.com, where he worked with clients like Sports Illustrated, LL Bean, Eastern Mountain sports and The Washington Post. Brad's dynamic image processing system is still in use by many of these companies and has been adopted as standard methodology by many companies that require consistent image delivery with both high performance and minimal storage impact.
Most recently, Brad served as the chief architect and development team manager for The Independent Photography network, a Nielsen company. In his role as VP of Technology, Brad planned capacity, security and performance for a company that was critical to the success of over seventy photographers and agencies. Additionally, Brad oversaw and contributed to the development of tangential projects within the Nielsen Photo Network, He worked with Adobe, building a portal to its Stock Photo web service that actually got faster the more traffic you threw at it. Brad created contest technology used by national geographic, kodak, and other national brands. Brad was also responsible for the development of Rumblefish's Music Licensing Store.
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 under the power of his own body. Shout outs to his awesome wife and kids too!
Justyn Baker
Catalog Director
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.
Jay Garrison
Account Director
Jay Garrison’s experience includes nearly 20 years in the graphic, design, creative, and interactive industries with a strong focus on the management of global, multi-million dollar digital asset management programs. Jay brings years of insight from his position as the Global Brand Information Strategy Director for Nike, where he successfully implemented BrandNetX, Nike’s global digital asset management system. He was successful at driving both revenue as well as the organizational and cultural acceptance of this adoption effort. Most recently, he worked as an independent consultant, providing clients and creative agencies with business coaching, leadership training, project management and business strategy creation. He is a graduate of Linfield College in McMinnville, OR and holds a B.A. in Business Administration.