MANAGEMENT & ADVISORS
Frankie Tan
CEO, Co-Founder & Board Director
Frankie worked previously in venture capital investment and also held executive positions in sales, marketing and business development. He is an engineer by training. He also holds MSc degrees in Financial Management (with Distinction) University of London, UK and in Strategic Management (Dean’s Honours List) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a graduate of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants United Kingdom, and a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA).
Kelvin Lee
CTO & Co-Founder
Kelvin has 16 years of industrial R&D experience in real-time embedded software and distributed computing, in areas of audio coding, computer vision, remote sensor networks and 3D visualisation systems. He was instrumental in co-developing and commercialising MPEG-4 SLS at the Institute of Infocomm Research, A*STAR. Prior to co-founding OraStream, he was Senior Manager Technical Solutions in a leading interactive 3D visual content management and virtual reality software provider. Kelvin is a Singaporean and holds a M.Eng degree in Digital Signal Processing.
Klaus Heymann
Board Director
Naxos is the brainchild of Mr Klaus Heymann, a German-born entrepreneur and music lover based in Hong Kong. Uniquely alive to the cooperation of business and artistic endeavour, in a decade and half Heymann has established Naxos as a world leader in music education, sponsorship, and the provision of recorded classical music to all.
Klaus Heymann had been fond of classical music ever since he was a child. He was one of the early proponents of digital music, and led Naxos to put its entire catalog on-line for streaming in 1996. In 2002, he launched the Naxos Music Library, essentially used by educational institutions and libraries. He also created distribution companies in most major music markets to distribute Naxos recordings, and the group of companies is now a major distributor of classical recordings and classical music DVDs around the world, including those of Warner Classics and Sony.
Klaus Heymann is also the co-founder of Artaria Editions, a music-publishing house with a specialist interest in rare eighteenth-century repertoire. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife Takako Nishizaki and their son Henryk.
Mathew Daniel
Advisor
Mathew has been one of the pioneers in the development of the music licensing market in China for the past 14 years, having started the distribution company, R2G with his partners. After the acquisition of R2G by Tencent Music in 2016, Mathew moved to NetEase Cloud Music (NCM) to head up their International Music division. He has long been a friend to the independent music community and in addition to launching the first legal independent music store in China 11 years ago, he has paved the way for many international artists to legally distribute their music in China, including then unknown artist Adele.
NetEase Cloud Music is a music streaming service developed and operated by NetEase, Inc. It is also the fastest growing music service in China with more than 600 million users. NetEase is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. Founded in 1997, the company was a key pioneer in the development of Internet services for China.
Phil Baker
Advisor
Phil has been developing consumer electronic products for his entire career, including many iconic products for Polaroid, Apple, Seiko, Barnes & Noble, Think Outside, Pono, and others. He holds over thirty patents and was a San Diego Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for his invention of the Think Outside Stowaway Keyboard.
Phil and Canadian singer-songwriter, musician Neil Young began working together to develop the PonoMusic player in 2012 and continue to work together on other projects, including the Neil Young Archives.
Phil holds a BS degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a master’s degree in engineering from Yale, and an MBA from Northeastern University.
