MW:M 2024
Speakers

Lilia van Beukering is the founder & general manager of DJ mentorship programme Femme Bass Mafia. Having studied Cultural Management and Art Trade at ICART Paris, she moved to Berlin in 2015 and initially worked in booking & PR agencies, as well as in Artist Relations at Beatport, before taking a position at RSO Berlin in 2022 where she’s a booker and partnerships manager.​

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.

Tom Nieuweboer is Chief Operating Officer at !K7 Music since 2014. He is responsible for the day to day operations of the company across the three offices in Berlin, New York and London, HR, process management, IT strategy as well as the financial reporting to the board and other stakeholders.

Tom is member of the Board of IMPALA and former member of the board of AFEM.

Until end of 2013 he was also heading the digital department at the !K7 label group. This included being key account manager digital distribution and being responsible for new business development in terms of exploiting master rights in the digital environment.

!K7 is a multi-faceted music company working out of offices in Berlin, London and New York.

!K7’s group of inhouse labels includes !K7 (Michael Mayer, Tosca, Hundred Waters) Strut (Sun Ra, Ebo Taylor, Mulatu Astatke), Aus (Midland, Bicep, Huxley) DJ-Kicks (Marcel Dettman, Matthew Dear, Jackmaster, Seth Troxler, Nina Kraviz, Moodyman) and 7K (Luca D’Alberto, Martyn Heyne, Niklas Paschburg).

!K7 provides global marketing, sales and distribution services to a like-minded group of labels from around the globe including, Gondwana, Luaka Bop, International Anthem, R&S, Rush Hour, We Jazz, Turbo, Planet E, Sonar Kollektiv and more.

!K7 also provide artist direct services to manage all aspects of a release (Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tricky, The Pop Group and Crazy P).