MW:M 2024
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Vikram Gudi is a music business executive with a 16-year career, who combines industry expertise with social purpose.

He founded Elephant Music in 2012 and has since established it as a global entity, with an extensive library of music for movie and TV trailers and a roster of 50 composers it represents worldwide. Music produced by Vikram has won Elephant Music 15 Clio Entertainment Awards, 6 Golden Trailer Awards, 6 music and sound awards and 4 PMA awards. Its work features in major productions, including Monkey Man, Baby Reindeer, and House Of The Dragon. He is also co-founder of Split Music Publishing, an experimental commercial music publisher and sync expert, representing composers/artists past and present including Sote, Sega Bodega, TSVI and Tommy Four Seven, and winning a prestigious Clio Grand Award for Everything Everywhere All At Once.

A thought leader in various fields, Vikram has spoken at The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, MIDEM, BIME, Liverpool Sound City and Canadian Music Week.

In early 2024, Vikram founded LILA, a groundbreaking initiative committed to empowering South Asian music industry talent, and as an advisor at the Center for Music Ecosystems, Vikram leverages his expertise to help shape a more inclusive global music ecosystem.

Vikram is the co-founder of record label Subtle Energy and a sound design producer at Mammoth Audio. An ardent beer enthusiast, he founded the brewery Mammoth Beer and a bar venue Mammoth Taproom.

In the film industry, Vikram is also an award-winning executive producer and his latest documentary Mother Vera was presented at the London Film Festival 2024, where it won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary.

Stan Georgiev is the Head of Strategic Partnerships for Ready Player Me, the cross-game avatar platform used by 10,000+ companies. Stan is responsible for the team that handles Ready Player Me’s global commercial brand partnerships across gaming, music, sports, fashion, and more.

His background includes experience in the corporate world, as a business founder, and as an executive in the video game industry – where he managed relationships with some of the biggest game studios and platforms, including Xbox Game Studios, PlayStation, and Take-Two Interactive. 

Head of Sync and Creative in Steam Music Group. River Steam division.

Curator of Sync Section at Reeperbahn Festival’24. PR in Mass Media Master’s Degree.

In the past: Tour and Production manager, SMM specialist, PR director at Aurora Concert Hall, PR director at Colisium Music Conference’15, Assistant at Yana Chudit Music Management, Marketing at Radio Roks.