Glyn MacLean is an avante garde music mentor.
Helping artists move to self-management.
And sustainable music careers.
He was an early pioneer in self-management and online distribution. A TVNZ documentary captured Glyn's achievement building an audience of 1 million listeners in USA and self-licensing and publishing his original music. During this time he was invited to take over managing the multi platinum singer Yulia, using the same techniques.
He went to on launch Yulia to her biggest audience in USA via PBS TV Special Divinas Live at Chambord Castle, coaching and developing Yulia to achieve international and national accolades for live performances and generating sustainable independent revenues from self management of tours and venue relationship management. Awards included Best nationwide entertainment 2010. Grand Prix Winner European Song Competition Atlantic Breeze.
Glyn went on to become mentor to Renee Maurice just prior to her winning New Zealand's Got Talent. He has coached, mentored or negotiated contracts for Jackie Evancho USA (song selection for Americas Got Talent Wild Card Entry You Tube, Ferandando Lima BRAZIL (contract negotiations with Frank Pederson - Sarah Brightman's Producer), Hayley Griffiths UK (Brand development) and Tiffany Desrosiers CANADA (Leadship Coaching).
More recently, Glyn left music to study technology and moved his way methodically to the top winning Best Cloud Product 2014 in Australian Business Awards for his work on accounting industry transformation. He did this to find new ways to leverage technology to transform music.
And in 2016, Glyn is a leading expert in Digital Currency Commerce and Blockchain, lecturing to FinTech industry at APAC Blockchain 2017 in Advanced Workshops.
He is right now pioneering how we use technology to build our biggest audiences and commercialise music in a way that puts ownership rightsholding and profit back in the hands of creators. He is staunch advocate of abandoning the current models of music business to honour value to the stakeholders who create music and get rid of the middle men who have exploited musicians for too long.