24-7 Management

With over 10 years of experience working in the music industry, both in the United States and Germany, Frank has a profound understanding of the intricate workings and needs of the labels and artists as reflected in the 24-7 Entertainment platform.

Prior to launching 24-7 Entertainment, Frank worked for Magix Entertainment Products in Berlin as International Product Manager and before that, he spent many years working for BMG Entertainment in marketing, sales and multimedia in both the Munich and New York offices.

Frank holds a Master of Business Administration from Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich where he studied Marketing and Information/Communication Technology.

Carl has 20 years of experience working at the forefront of cutting-edge technology where he has honed his craft; his expertise is evident in the state-of-the-art shop system he created.

Before Co-Founding 24-7 Entertainment, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of ON Consult AG with clients including CD-World Geneva, Deutsche Telekom Kabel Service and ABB-Dacom. Prior to that, he worked for TPI-IT, a Danish consultancy company where he was a Senior Consultant with clients including Ikea.

Carl holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Science and Computer Science from Roskilde University in Denmark.

Joern brings with him a strong background in music, new media, business development and journalism. Most recently he worked for Universal Music Germany where he developed the concept for the first track-by-track-download system known as Popfile, which he went on to market and manage the content. While at Universal, he also worked on business development of pilot projects including O2 mobile download and stationary download kiosk systems.

Prior to that, he freelanced for Bertelsmann Content Network in Hamburg where he worked on marketing and new media concepts and before that as a Senior Editor for leading German Media companies (Gruner & Jahr, Bauer Verlag, RTL, Brainpool AG, Tomorrow Internet AG, Verlagsgruppe Milchstraße) where he developed TV, print and Internet magazines.

Philip has a strong background in online and mobile digital distribution. Prior to joining the 24-7 team, he worked as General Manager UK for Musicbrigade where he launched several ad- funded, video streaming services including Channel 4 in the UK and M6 in France.

Philip also worked for many years for Loudeye / OD2 as both Head of Strategic Partnerships – EMEA and before that, as Business Development Manager, Rest of World. In both roles, he worked closely with international mobile corporations including Nokia, Samsung as well as entertaiment hardware manufacturers such as Philips to expand the digital distribution business and increase revenue.

He holds a Master of Science in Music Information Technology from City University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Studies from the University of Bradford.

Morten has more than 20 years experience in the music industry and has held various positions within sales and marketing management, mainly on the record company side but for some years also on the "electronic retail" side. In the 80's and early 90's he worked for Sony Music. In the mid & late 90's Morten created multi-platinum selling compilation albums & box sets for MTG-owned TV-Shop Europe.
In the late 90's he projected, designed and launched the Nordic online store CDON – today Scandinavia's biggest online music & film retailer.

Before teaming up with 24-7 Entertainment, Morten was heading Edel Records in the Scandinavian territories. Through the years he has developed an extensive network within the Scandinavian music & media industry.

Morten holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics and Management from Lund University in Sweden.

David graduated from Universität Mainz, Germany, with a Masters degree in Communication Studies. His Diploma Thesis was about the influences of multimedia and internet to the music industry which has been relevant throughout his successful career. David thrived when placed in charge of the music channel of e-loft.com (a pan-european student's portal) in 2000.

Using his musical background and his knowledge of the media he then went on to become online editor for T-Online's former music portal 't-music'. David expanded his focus and encompassed sales at Magix in 2004, he set up magixmusic.de and medionmusic.com in cooperation with 24-7.

David joined the 24-7 team the next year and is the VP Sales & Marketing G/S/A.

Sascha Alexander began his career as a musician and now has more than 25 years of experience in the music business and more than 10 years in the field of digital distribution.

Sascha is a pioneer in Internet Music, in 1996 he started the German music-portal "subaudio" with the first live streaming of concerts in Germany.
In 1998 he founded the first legal digital music download Service in Germany called "mov.a.bit". After this, he gained experience in personalised TV and broadband internet services via satellite.

His experience in music business and digital distribution together with his entrepreneurship makes him perfect to develop new markets in the south of Europe.

Charles joined 24-7 Entertainment from the mobile operator Hutchison 3G UK, where he was in charge of designing and launching the award-winning 3MusicStore.

Prior to that Charles pioneered mobile music downloads at Belgium's leading mobile operator Proximus (Belgacom Mobile). Needless to say,  Ringtones, Real Tones, Ringback Tones, Music Recognition Services, Full Track Audio and Video are nothing new to him.

Charles has a degree in Business and Economics and a postgraduate diploma Internet Software Engineer.

Patricia has extensive background in the music and entertainment industry. She began her career in 1995 when she wrote her Diploma Thesis for BMG Interactive entitled "Effects of New Technologies on the Value Chain of Music Industry Products".

Afterwards she worked for ProSieben (Germany's biggest TV company) in Strategic Program Management reporting to the board and then for Letsbuyit.com, as a European Category Leader. Additionally, she has freelanced for BMG's A&R and licensing departments; worked for artist management agencies and consulted for several music labels. Patricia began working for 24-7 Entertainment in 2001.

Patricia holds a Master of Business Administration in International Management and Controlling from the University of Hohenheim (Germany and Canada)