Primary Job Title Founder and CEO Primary Organization 
ArtistShare
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Brian is as a musician, entrepreneur and Grammy nominated producer. Most notably, he is credited as being a pioneer of modern "crowdfunding". In 2001, Brian founded ArtistShare, the Internet's first "fan-funding" website which became the blueprint for today's rewards-based crowdfunding model.
In 2004, the first
ArtistShare fan-funded release won a Grammy award and became the first album ever to win a Grammy that was not available in retail stores. ArtistShare fan-funded music projects have received 32 Grammy award nominations and 11 Grammy award wins to date.
As a pioneer in crowdfunding he has been an invited guest speaker at Judge Business School at Cambridge University, Midem, The Grammy Foundation at NARAS, ASCAP, NYU Law School, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage,The Songwriters hall of fame, The Future of Music Coalition, George Mason School of Law, The Global Crowdfunding Convention and has been an advisor to the Canadian Heritage Copyright Policy Branch as part of their research on copyright reform in Canada.
In 2005, he was featured in the marketing book "The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable" by entrepreneur and author Seth Godin.
He served for 15 years as an adjunct professor at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, NY teaching courses on music technology, music history and web marketing.
Brian is a U.S. Patent holder and advocate of intellectual property rights for creative artists.
"But even then, with the world population so huge, placing your endeavor at the forefront of public attention for anyone willing to contribute to, is a purely brilliant idea. That is exactly what was playing in the mind of Boston musician Brian Camelio when he founded ArtistShare, the world’s oldest crowdfunding website for creative professionals, in 2003. Following the immense success of this brave new idea, other websites soon followed suit, and crowdfunding, became a full-fledged industry."
~ Forbes Magazine, 2016
