Chuck is a skilled business development and partnerships leader for technology companies facing the media industry, with deep expertise in digital media and music technology
In 2020, he launched Music Data Pro to share industry best practices for music marketing which include utilizing streaming data, music metadata, and social media analytics. Through Music Data Pro, he penned the “Guide to Releasing Music” for UK audio equipment maker Focusrite Audio Engineering LTD.
Since 2019, Chuck hosts “FSQ with Chuck Da Fonk”, a weekly 2 hour long live broadcast via the music oriented online radio station, The Face Radio, which has its studios in Brooklyn, NYC and approximately 200,000 worldwide listeners monthly. FSQ broadcasts are subsequently distributed for playback on Mixcloud, Spotify, ACast, Google Play, Apple Podcasts, and iHeartRadio.
Prior to Music Data Pro, Chuck led business development for North and Latin America for Gracenote’s Global Music Data offering and Music Recognition solution. In his last year at the company, 2019, he brought in $10 million in music tech product revenues. Gracenote is a Nielsen company.
Chuck is a leader in the music technology space ; he started his career at CNET covering music tech as a broadcast journalist in 1999. His first radio piece for CNET was about Napster in early 2000
Furthermore, he has deep roots in the music industry, because he wears multiple hats as both a music producer, artist manager, and music tech strategist
Before heading to the forefront of digital transformation, Chuck developed and produced long form radio programming for CNET, Wall Street Journal, and iHeartRadio
In 2006, Chuck left the broadcast journalism industry and The Wall Street Journal for tech giant Cisco. As a part of the team at Cisco Media Solutions Group team, he managed the company’s relationships with Warner, Universal and Sony Music groups. The Cisco offering was a content management system that could host 1000s of artist websites and scale globally with the major record labels ecommerce businesses
In 2013, Chuck joined Acquia where as Global Director of Media and Entertainment he expanded his work beyond the music business, bringing scalable direct to consumer digital platforms to media companies. Clients Chuck brought to Acquia include Creative Artists Agency, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Fox Television, BBC Worldwide, Warner Bros Entertainment, Entercom and Emmis Communications, iHeart Media.
Chuck has deep tech understanding in the areas of content management systems (CMS) and the technology stacks required to deliver modern digital content and commerce experiences. His knowledge base includes the competitive landscape for CMS (e.g. Adobe, Drupal, Wordpress, Contently, custom CMS), commerce engines (Salesforce Commerce, Magento, SAP Hybris), necessary third party integrations (video / audio rich media players, CRM, social sharing) and front end frameworks (all flavors of Javascript, HTML 5, CSS).
Chuck is a prolific producer of written and video content with the purpose of generating inbound leads for sales teams. For reference, here is an aggregated list of content
Chuck has a successful track record of launching creator focused digital music platforms, leveraging key artist and record label partnerships. For instance, in 2012 at official.fm as Director of Partnerships he secured key partners Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller, leading to 1 million mixtape downloads of the artists’ mixtapes within one week of launch of the platform
He is a frequent collaborator with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (P-Funk). Since 2010, he manages the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame / Grammy Lifetime award winning funk group’s digital presence across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Therefore he is deeply familiar with digital music services and their artist / management facing platforms.
With Clinton, Chuck developed and executed successful partnerships between P-Funk and brands such as Toyota / Scion, Red Bull, Sneakersnstuff
Chuck started his career as a musician and continues to produce, release, and perform music with FSQ (Funk Style Quality). FSQ’s 2020 album “Reprise Tonight” (Soul Clap Records) received Bandcamp’s coveted “Album of the Day” award upon its release.