Gaurav Sharma

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Hook

Jul 2023 - Current (3 years)

Innovating music expression with the best team in the world.

Chief Operating Officer

JioSaavn

Jan 2017 - Dec 2022 (6 years)

JioSaavn is India's largest music streaming service with over 200M Monthly Active Users and having raised over $200M over a span of 8 years. In March 2018 'Saavn' announced a landmark transaction with Reliance Jio valued at over $1 Bn, making the new entity 'JioSaavn'. As COO, I lead JioSaavn’s strategic, business and financial planning, and oversee cross functional execution of JioSaavn’s core objectives. My amazing teams include JioSaavn’s growth, strategy & operations, original music, artist management, marketing, and business insights teams. India is such an incredible market for musician’s and creators. DSPs are democratising music, and fans are for the first time discovering content outside of traditional film-music. In addition to

Head of Growth & Data Sciences

JioSaavn

Dec 2010 - Jan 2017 (6 years 2 months)

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A&R Market Research

Columbia Records

Oct 2009 - Aug 2010 (11 months)

• Established “A&R Research”, utilizing market analytics and online research techniques in a unique setting within the music industry, giving major labels better direction in finding and developing talent • Leveraged 3rd party data-sets to build compelling cases for new artist signing and developmental strategies, acting as a more cost-efficient market research medium • Presented results and ideas to senior level executives from labels within Sony, establishing relationships

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Director of Product Development

Awaaazcom Harvard University

May 2008 - May 2009 (1 year 1 month)

• Awaaaz.com – a “Music 2.0” web start-up funded by Harvard University • Worked with programmers to implement unique product ideas into a web 2.0 setting • Conceived and developed the onlineSTUDIO, remoteSTUDIO, and artistDIRECT projects

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