About Us - Company Info
ArtistXite has been created for musicians, by musicians.
We are fortunate to have a very unique, multifaceted team of individuals:
- Solid financial backing from forward thinking investors in the private culture sector.
- A sophisticated, secure back-end database developed over the past few years.
- ‘Outside-of-the-box-thinking’, seasoned international, music industry business experts.
- Young, cutting edge, current music industry experts. Always at the forefront of the newest waves,
trends, possibilities and under-currents, (artists, producers, indie-label experts, publicists, bloggers).
- A large team of creative, young, bold computer programmers and development wizards.
The co-founders and executive officers are:
Rolf Moeller
CEO
Is an active songwriter, musician and producer, as well as a successful business developer,
consultant and manager.
Loves living on the edge and Rock'n Roll.
Lennart Krogoll
Co-Founder/Managing Director
Studied classical violin, later played guitar and drums professionally in various bands
and studios during the 70s and 80s in Germany and the USA, then moved to Canada, where
he is still involved in artist-development, management, songwriting and production.
Loves good chocolate, space, chi kung, constant learning.
Steffen Moelter
CTO / CIO
Studied informatic and chemical-engineering. Started with prgramming in 1984 and developing e-business applications in 1998. Senior programmer and IT- Consultant at several
companies, managed the developing of a commercial internet shop system. Since 2004 he has been CTO / CIO of artistXite.
Loves his family and good science fictions.
Holly Gordon
Administrative Assistant
Holly Gordon is a freelance journalist and horseback riding instructor in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When she gets too stir-crazy, she likes to pick up and go.
Holly feels most at home when she's not at home; or when she's with horses.
Jason MacIsaac
Promotion and public relations
Jason MacIsaac is a songwriter, producer, and composer in Halifax Nova Scotia.
He loves tea, chess, and cats.
Matt Charlton
Promotion and public relations
Matt is very involved the independent music industry. He also maintains his own music
blog and heads a publicity company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Melanie Strong
Marketing/Promotions
Melanie was born with a computer on her lap and music in her ears.
Loves space, underwater, underground, the body/the mind and bad knock-knock jokes.
Carl Asman
Project Manager
Born in Sweden, lived in London, now in Hamburg. Grew up with music and computers. Developed internet projects since 1994, got his Master degree of Computer Science in 1999. Has managed large software development projects for major companies, including for Airbus and Panasonic.
Lanre Famuyide
Application & Web-Developer
A graduate of Computer Science. His interests span Web and database applications
development, databases and project management.
Enjoys soccer and music
Ayman Hakeem
Application & Web-Developer
Ayman hails from Egypt. He moved to Canada in 1996, and is a computer science graduate.
Loves art, gaming, and driving
Gene Seto
Application & Web-Developer
Recently graduated from Dalhousie Computer Science.
Anas Trabulsi
Application & Web-Developer
Studied computer science. Has a master degree in Electronic Commerce from Dalhousie University.
Loves beer and good movies!
Tim Younger
Application & Web-Developer
Recently graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer
Science. Though competent in many areas, most interest lies in development of web
technologies.
Enjoys weekends and 'the endless summer'
Lars Wilke
DBA / Linux Guru
Worked for a couple of companies as DBA and Sysadmin since 2002. Has been working for artistXite since 2006.
Loves good beer and open source
Our joint goal is to empower the independent artist
We set out to create the most comprehensive, artist-friendly, self-empowering,
state-of-the-art tool for independent artists. We believe that this
will help bring good music into the global digital market and increase
diversity for fans everywhere in the world.
Over the past few years conventional retail sales, effective distribution
and promotional avenues have all but dissapeared. Music fans have turned
to the internet to find the music they love.
ArtistXite is committed to building the bridge between your music and
music-lovers worldwide. We help artists take advantage of new sales
avenues and promotional opportunities that have arisen via the Internet.
ArtistXite operates on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - our European
office is located at Holstenwall in Hamburg, Germany, while our North
American office is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
ArtistXite uses its own state-of-the-art, dedicated servers,
which are housed in one of Europe’s most secure and reputable
facilities with USV supported power, high-powered backup generators
and direct connection to a global communication network. Each
file is automatically saved and a security backup is created. The server
system can hold millions of music files.