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IODA founder Kevin Arnold is a terminal music fan and music technology geek. In 1993 he created the seminal indie rock music festival Noise Pop in his adopted hometown of San Francisco, and for the past 11 years has watched it grow from a one night shindig to an internationally renowned sprawling week-long celebration of quality music, film, and independent culture. Noise Pop has become an institution in the Bay Area, and continually strives to foster the growth of local up-and-coming musicians while showcasing the best of regional and national independent music. Somewhere in there he got a computer day job, worked his way through a stint at database technology leader Oracle, and eventually ended up at the online music company Listen.com. As Director of Data Services for Listen, he was able to combine his loves for music and technology by guiding the growth and development of Listen's complex music metadata database systems, data integration tools, and music royalty data warehouse. While the prospect of creating compelling legal music services that catered to individual tastes in new ways was exciting, the realization that they would be focused overwhelmingly on major label music wasn't. In 2004 Kevin was invited to join the Advisory Board of the Future of Music Coalition, a forward-thinking not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the media, policymakers, and the public on issues at the intersection of music and technology, and collaborating on creative solutions to challenges in this space. With IODA, Kevin brings this dedication to music and the prosperity of the independent community together with a unique understanding of the digital music world and the technical knowledge to build a solution that can benefit the independent rightsholder community at large as well as the growing digital music industry. | 