Management

Gerrit Schumann

Gerrit Schumann is co-founder and managing director of Music Networx. He was previously a private investor holding various direct investments in technology, financial and media companies.

He was an early Internet pioneer who co-founded global e-commerce company element 5 and served as chairman of element 5's executive board from 1998 to 2005. The company was acquired by Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV) in 2004. Up to 2005, Gerrit was a member of Digital River's supervisory board.

Before his time at element 5, he was a co-founder of share-it! in 1996, a Web-based service for selling software. Prior to founding share-it!, he was an IT consultant for various international clients in Europe, Asia and the USA.

Georg Bergheim

Georg Bergheim is managing director of Music Networx in Cologne. From 1989 to 1993, Georg was head of the Artist & Repertoire division of BMG Ariola in Munich. He then founded a management and music publishing company in Cologne along with Dr. Andreas Scheuermann and Roland Temme.

The company managed the Harald Schmidt Show Band, among others, and organized sponsoring for Westernhagen's "Affentour."

In 1996, Georg Bergheim founded GB Music & Mediaconsulting, which specialized exclusively on providing consulting to international artists such as Jon Lord (ex-Deep Purple), Sally Oldfield and Spencer Davis.

Denise Breuer

Denise Breuer is co-founder and marketing director of Music Networx. She previously worked in artist management at GB Music & Mediaconsultung (2005 - 2006).

Before joining GB Music & Mediaconsultung, Denise was responsible for Events and Education at Renault Nissan from 2000 to 2005. She graduated from the Medienakademie (Media Academy) in Cologne in 2004.