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The Company
Audionamix is an innovative technology company involved in the cutting edge of audio signal processing. We have developed the first and only technology capable of reverse engineering a monophonic or stereophonic recording into its multi-track components essentially extracting and separating voice or music from the original mix.
This technology creates vast business opportunities for content owners in the entertainment industry.
A common request Audionamix has received from record labels and publishers is the need for instrumental tracks of older songs, as it was not protocol to have masters delivered this way until recent years. The music industry realizes how many licensing opportunities are missed because they cannot provide an instrumental track to the buyer, and until now no one was able to do it. Audionamix can!
Studios and television networks experience a similar problem. When an older TV show is set for release either on DVD, internet streaming, or for foreign territories, often the music licenses have either expired or are cost prohibitive. Audionamix can now effectively address this formerly unsolvable problem, offering an alternative to the costly and time-consuming activity of re-licensing agreements.
With a strong commitment to finding creative and innovative solutions for the most complex music challenges, Audionamix is at the forefront of providing specialized technologies. Our product tool kit allows for the manipulation of audio elements so that assets can be re-purposed for new applications. Audionamix’s solution provides composers, sound mixers, engineers, music editors and music supervisors with the ability to access certain vocal or instrumental stems from a composite mix, thereby giving our clients the ability to monetize dormant assets.
Based in Paris, the Audionamix research team works with industry-leading laboratories such as Telecom ParisTech and the Technion Institute in Israel.
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Olivier Attia
Chief Executive Officer
Olivier Attia is a leading technological entrepreneur and responsible for creating a host of breakthrough technologies throughout his career. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Audionamix, the leading audio restoration provider and research laboratory focused on the entertainment industry. Bringing over fifteen years of technological management and consulting experience to the role, he has been instrumental in establishing Audionamix's position as a pioneering force in the sound technology sector.
In 2006, Attia founded ClickOVA, a mobile platform for automatic back-up of mobile phone content. After one year in research and development, ClickOVA was launched and distributed, over a two year period with users in 193 countries.
Attia attained his knowledge of the mobile carrier market during his years at SCANBUY Inc., a software company which he founded in 2000, and acted as the Chief Executive Officer until 2006. At SCANBUY, Inc., he created and launched the world's first barcode scanning software technology, integrated for camera-based cellular phones named Breakout Company of 2005 by Fortune Magazine and Top 100 Companies of 2006 by Red Herring. During his tenure at SCANBUY, Attia was interviewed on FOX News, ABC, NBC and Bloomberg TV about mobile technology. He was several times speakers in conferences including CTIA Wireless, NextMedia and Forbes Conference speaking about the wireless new challenges.
Even in his early career, Attia worked at the forefront of technological innovation as an internet specialist, providing consultation services to industry professionals and organizations from 1994. He was a Principal Manager in the National Internet Practice division at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, where he provided consulting and strategic services focused on high profile e-commerce strategic engagements from 1997 to 2000.
In the four years preceding, Attia was a consultant at ATOS Group, where he specialized in the integration of new technologies. During his tenure, he developed the first online banking system for a major established bank,participated in the development of several projects in South America including telemedicine and sales force application for Mobile Operators and developed an expertise in control quality. Attia lived in Mexico two years and helped TELMEX to implement a complete carrier-class sales management platform.
Attia holds both a Master's degree in Marketing and an Engineering degree in Information System Management from University Paris, Dauphine. He also earned an honors degree in Physics and Computer Science from University Paris, Pierre et Marie Curie. He also completed course work at MIT Sloan School of Management; specifically a course entitled Developing and Managing a Successful Technology & Product Strategy.
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Olivier Attia
Chief Executive Officer
Olivier Attia is a leading technological entrepreneur and responsible for creating a host of breakthrough technologies throughout his career. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Audionamix, the leading audio restoration provider and research laboratory focused on the entertainment industry. Bringing over fifteen years of technological management and consulting experience to the role, he has been instrumental in establishing Audionamix's position as a pioneering force in the sound technology sector.
In 2006, Attia founded ClickOVA, a mobile platform for automatic back-up of mobile phone content. After one year in research and development, ClickOVA was launched and distributed, over a two year period with users in 193 countries.
Attia attained his knowledge of the mobile carrier market during his years at SCANBUY Inc., a software company which he founded in 2000, and acted as the Chief Executive Officer until 2006. At SCANBUY, Inc., he created and launched the world's first barcode scanning software technology, integrated for camera-based cellular phones named Breakout Company of 2005 by Fortune Magazine and Top 100 Companies of 2006 by Red Herring. During his tenure at SCANBUY, Attia was interviewed on FOX News, ABC, NBC and Bloomberg TV about mobile technology. He was several times speakers in conferences including CTIA Wireless, NextMedia and Forbes Conference speaking about the wireless new challenges.
Even in his early career, Attia worked at the forefront of technological innovation as an internet specialist, providing consultation services to industry professionals and organizations from 1994. He was a Principal Manager in the National Internet Practice division at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, where he provided consulting and strategic services focused on high profile e-commerce strategic engagements from 1997 to 2000.
In the four years preceding, Attia was a consultant at ATOS Group, where he specialized in the integration of new technologies. During his tenure, he developed the first online banking system for a major established bank,participated in the development of several projects in South America including telemedicine and sales force application for Mobile Operators and developed an expertise in control quality. Attia lived in Mexico two years and helped TELMEX to implement a complete carrier-class sales management platform.
Attia holds both a Master's degree in Marketing and an Engineering degree in Information System Management from University Paris, Dauphine. He also earned an honors degree in Physics and Computer Science from University Paris, Pierre et Marie Curie. He also completed course work at MIT Sloan School of Management; specifically a course entitled Developing and Managing a Successful Technology & Product Strategy.
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Pierre Leveau
Chief Scientific Officer
Pierre Leveau attained a Masters of Engineering at Supélec in 2003; then a Master of Science in Acoustics, Digital Signal Processing, Computer Science applied to Music at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 2004. He prepared his Ph.D. in this University and also in the Audio team at Télécom ParisTech. At that time he was also involved in the FP7 Network of Excellence K-SPACE. After graduation in 2007, he was software engineer responsible of the audio applications at Aldebaran Robotics, company producing the first European humanoid robots (in charge of the software integration of vocal functionalities of robots (synthesis, recognition) and of the development of the speaker localization).
At Audionamix, he started as a research engineer in 2009. Since 2010, he is in charge of the Research and Development at Audionamix. His role is to manage a team of skilled engineers who develop and improve Audionamix' source separation technology, towards higher quality, automation and speed. He also manages the collaborative R&D projects and the Intellectual Property of the company.
He is the author of 15 papers in international conferences and of one journal article (IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing). He is also a member of the AES and the IEEE.
Pierre can be reached at:
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Adam Chuck
VP of Sales
Adam Chuck is a senior sales executive with over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry, and he brings to Audionamix a broad range of skills including sales, post-production, negotiating and project management. He cultivated extensive experience and connections within all of the major studios and in most major markets, and specializes in the European and Asia-Pacific markets.
As Technicolor Senior Vice President, North American and Worldwide Sales, Adam served on the team negotiating long-term agreements with major studios, including Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Focus Films, The Weinstein Company, Overture Films, and IMAX Corporation. He managed a sales and marketing staff of 28, including 18 internationally. Additionally, he was responsible for North America and worldwide customer relations, coordinating customers’ needs in creating elements for international distribution with laboratories in London, Rome, Madrid, New York, Toronto, Vancouver and Bangkok.
Adam’s international expertise includes creating a presence at film festivals and film markets such as Cannes, Sundance, ShowWest, Mifed, Show Canada and American Film Market. Through his efforts, Adam grew Technicolor’s international release business by over 50% by negotiating new sales agreements with international sales companies, among them, New Line International and Summit International.
Adam can be reached at:
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Arnaud Dudemaine
VP of Operations
Arnaud has evolved in and around sound and music industry most of his career. From 1997 to 2004, he held several management positions in back-catalogue and compilations at EMI Music France, restoring Edith Piaf’s complete discography, and releasing EMI, Capitol and Virgin titles including The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and the Rolling Stones to name a few. Subsequently, Arnaud was General Manager of Eagle-Rock Entertainment France, one of the leading independent Music DVD producers and distributors, overseeing the production and release of numerous titles, including the fortieth anniversary collection of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Since moving to America, Arnaud has continued in this field, working as Sound Supervisor for Warner Premiere’s “Batgirl Year 1” before setting up the LA office for Audionamix in 2009.
Arnaud grew up in France, Australia, England and Germany and holds a BA in European Business Administration from Middlesex University (London), a diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures From Reims Business School (France) and an MBA in European Businessfrom Reutlingen University (Germany).
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Rick Silva
VP of Production
When we were hiring professional sound engineers in Los Angeles, for our brand new production team, we did not know we would attract one of Hollywood’s preeminent audio engineering instructors. Rick was brought to our attention by one of his former student graduates from the world renowned Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. Rick has taught thousands of students the art of professional audio engineering.
He has written and produced music for television commercials for companies such as Sony and Sanyo, and he has engineered, mixed, and mastered CD’s for clients ranging from jazz-fusion greats Scott Henderson and Jeff Richman, to rock guitar gods - Paul Gilbert, Gary Hoey, and Dweezil Zappa.
Rick is also a published author and video host for Hal Leonard and Alfred publishing. His most recent releases are Power Tools for Pro Tools 8 and Power Tools for Logic Pro 9.Rick is currently working on a Modern Mixing Techniques book that will feature some of Audionamix proprietary technology.
Rick’s production studio was also the first Accredited Training Facility for Waves plug-in certification training in the Los Angeles area, and it is now the proud home base of Audionamix production in the United States.
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Olivier Attia, Director
Olivier Attia is a leading technological entrepreneur who is responsible for creating a host of breakthrough technologies throughout his career. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Audionamix, a disruptive technology involved in the field of audio signal processing. Audionamix is the only technology capable of reverse engineering audio recordings into separate components for professional use in the entertainment industry. Bringing over fifteen years of technological management and consulting experience to the role, he has been instrumental in establishing Audionamix's position as a pioneering force in sound technology.
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Jean-Michel Petit, Director
Jean-Michel is entrepreneur and corporate leader experienced in numerous management roles, most recently as a Director of CRM and E-Commerce at Compaq France. Mr. Petit has significant expertise in the technology sector and solid practical knowledge of company building, having previously been a member of AltaVista EMEA management team and Managing Director of Vignette France.
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Pierre Lescure, Director
Pierre Lescure is a French Journalist, entrepreneur and the former President of French Channel Canal Plus. Mr. Lescure has lead several initiatives throughout his career including integrating the training center for journalists, CFJ, and launching a new paid subscription channel, Canal Plus. He was appointed artistic director of Theatre Marigny in 2008. In addition, Mr. Lescure is also the director of Thomson SA.
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Olivier Attia, Director
Olivier Attia is a leading technological entrepreneur who is responsible for creating a host of breakthrough technologies throughout his career. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Audionamix, a disruptive technology involved in the field of audio signal processing. Audionamix is the only technology capable of reverse engineering audio recordings into separate components for professional use in the entertainment industry. Bringing over fifteen years of technological management and consulting experience to the role, he has been instrumental in establishing Audionamix's position as a pioneering force in sound technology.
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Jean-Michel Petit, Director
Jean-Michel is entrepreneur and corporate leader experienced in numerous management roles, most recently as a Director of CRM and E-Commerce at Compaq France. Mr. Petit has significant expertise in the technology sector and solid practical knowledge of company building, having previously been a member of AltaVista EMEA management team and Managing Director of Vignette France.
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Pierre Lescure, Director
Pierre Lescure is a French Journalist, entrepreneur and the former President of French Channel Canal Plus. Mr. Lescure has lead several initiatives throughout his career including integrating the training center for journalists, CFJ, and launching a new paid subscription channel, Canal Plus. He was appointed artistic director of Theatre Marigny in 2008. In addition, Mr. Lescure is also the director of Thomson SA.
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David Pakman, Advisor
David Pakman has been very influential in the transition of the music industry from traditional to digital media. He is co-founder of MyPlay, a company that established the “digital music locker,” along with having been responsible for several other notable technology-based projects over the span of his career. He worked with Apple to help co-create Apple’s Music Group, as well as co-produced the 1997 Grammy Awards Webcast, which was, at the time, the largest industry webcast to date.
In addition to Mr. Pakman’s influence on the emergence of the digital music industry, he has held several executive positions in various
start-up firms across the nation. He is now a partner at the leading venture capital firm, Venrock, based in New York City, where he invests in early stage internet and digital media companies.
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David Schulhof, Advisor
David Schulhof has held several roles in the industry including being the Co-founder and CEO for Evergreen Copyrights, a leader in global rights management. He also has been the VP of motion picture music both for Miramax and Dimension Films. During his time at Miramax, David was an executive producer, A&R producer, music supervisor and score supervisor, responsible for musical scores from movies such as “She’s All That,” “Scary Movie”, “Scream 2 & 3” and “In Too Deep.”
Schulhof received his J.D. from the NYU School of Law and received a B.A. from Georgetown University. He is fluent in three foreign languages and a member of the New York State Bar.
David Schulhof’s contribution to the entertainment landscape is widely recognized, as he is frequently quoted and featured in numerous trade and news publications as an authority on music and entertainment.
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Eurovestech is the AIM listed pan-European development capital fund focused on high-technology enterprises. We pride ourselves on the quality of our dealflow, the calibre of our co-investors and our strong network of professional contacts. Our directors and team have backgrounds in chartered accountancy, media and the high technology industry with companies such as Schroders, Compaq and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. |
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Audionamix is a proud member of several professional networks.
Digital Entertainment Group (DEG)
This Los Angeles-based, industry-funded non-profit corporation advocates and promotes the many benefits associated with physical and digital entertainment, while providing updated information to both the media and the retail trade. The DEG also offers a forum for member companies to discuss new digital technologies, the environment and other emerging topics. Its president, Bob Chapek, also heads Walt Disney’s Digital Studios Home Entertainment. Being so close to the people who matter in the industry gives Audionamix a birds eye view on developing projects, which will improve its room for identifying and commercializing services offered.
The Association of Moving Image Archivists
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is a non-profit professional association established to advance the feel of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials.
Cap Digital
Cap Digital mainly helps businesses and research laboratories build mono partner and collaborative projects. It gathers 570 innovative SMEs, 20 major corporations, 50 institutions of higher education and 10 capital investors, which together represent 170 research labs
Entertainment Supply Chain Academy
Audionamix sponsored the fifth edition of the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy (ESCA). In association with the DEG, this has become the annual meeting point for the home entertainment industry. The Entertainment Supply Chain Academy was created by Martin Porter and founding conference chairman Devendra Mishra (see biographies below) in association with DEG: Digital Entertainment Group. Having just completed its fourth event, ESCA has become the industry’s annual business conference responsible for driving efficiencies in the delivery of physical and digital home entertainment.
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
The Audio Engineering Society is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Founded in the United States in 1948, the AES has grown to become an international organization that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists and students worldwide by promoting advances in audio and disseminating new knowledge and research.
National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. is known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS. Established in 1957, it is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers. The Recording Academy is famous for its Grammy Awards. |
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