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Mr. Klaus is an entrepreneur and investor in new media and technology companies. From April 2006 to the December 2009, Mr. Klaus has served as Chief Executive Officer of the online media company Music Nation, Inc. and Original Signal Recordings, a company he co-founded and led through three rounds of equity and institutional debt financings including Greylock Partners, Point Judith Capital, and LightHouse Capital Partners. Music Nation and Original Signal have become one of the leading independent music companies in the US with artists such as Ingrid Michelson, Butch Walker, The Bronx, Longwave and numerous others. In 2009 the company formed a venture with Universal Music Group to distribute and market its recorded music product.
Since 2001, Mr. Klaus has been the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Fabric Group, LLC a media advisory firm with such clients as Goldman Sachs, Cheyne Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Bertelsmann, and Yahoo! Inc., Music Match and Sony Pictures. Fabric is focused on assisting media companies launch technology services and work with content and rights holders such as record labels, music publishers and film studios. The firm has also assisted in a number of financial transactions including Yahoo’s purchase of MusicMatch.
Prior to 2001, Mr. Klaus launched BrandFarm, an on-line incubator. BrandFarm launched 911 Gifts (Red Envelope) and Gold Violin. Mr. Klaus launched his career by founding Canadian based Passion Music Group, which was acquired by BMG Music in 1997.
Mr. Klaus was named as one of the top 100 Internet executives in New York by Silicon Alley Insider, a leading Internet publication and has been featured in numerous national media publications and industry panels.
