We build the music industry’s next act.
Wolftone builds new businesses inside the world’s biggest music companies. Since 2010, presidents and CIOs at Universal Music Group and EMI have brought in Wolftone to take new ventures from first charter to operating unit. Today, Wolftone builds catalog activation for investors, fractional innovation leadership for independents, and the data layer for music AI.
Artist credibility. Executive trust.
The only operator credible in both rooms. Deep creative credibility with artists, producers, and composers — 25+ awards, an MFA from CalArts, and work alongside iconic talent. And proven executive leadership trusted by the C-suite of the world’s largest music companies. Most people are either creative or operators. Wolftone is both, at the level where it counts — the fractional executive who can credibly talk to Hans Zimmer and the CEO of Universal Music Group.
BUYABLE ........ no — trust isn’t for sale
INTERSECTION ... creative × operator, elite level
FLYWHEEL ....... results → reputation → access
Pick your side of the table.
Investing in music catalogs?
The Catalog Activation Studio: due diligence, rights infrastructure, AI-powered discovery, and licensing operations that turn acquisitions into operating businesses.
Catalog Activation Studio → B2 / Labels & PublishersRunning a label or publisher?
The Fractional C-Suite: major-label innovation leadership for independent and mid-market companies — without the executive salary, search, or risk.
Fractional C-Suite → B3 / Music AIBuilding music AI?
The data layer: dataset architecture, validation, knowledge graphs, and enrichment from the operators who shipped fifty production algorithms inside UMG.
Music AI data services →Everyone else advises or executes.
Wolftone is the only option that does both — C-suite strategy with hands-on operational build, deep inside the music business.
A build history, not a client list.
Inside EMI, then Universal Music Group — through the $1.9B acquisition that joined them — every engagement since 2010 has ended in a working system: “Core,” Global Rights Management, Global Strategic Operations, and the Global Innovation unit.
Let’s talk.
Rethinking your operating model — or what generative AI means for your catalog? Bring the problem that doesn’t have a department yet.