Zack Bolak

Co-Founder

Brooklyn, New York, United States10 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of Culture Technologies in music tech.
  • VP of Business Development at Third Chair.
  • Expert in monetizing music rights on social media.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Music Tech and Business Development expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business DevelopmentProduct Management

Other Skills

Sales OperationsMarketing StrategyLeadershipContent ManagementProduct MarketingPublic SpeakingTime ManagementMicrosoft OfficeCustomer ServiceSocial Media MarketingMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelSocial NetworkingTeamworkFacebook

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Third chair (yc x25)

3 roles

VP of Business Development

Promoted

Aug 2025Present · 9 mos

  • helping labels & publishers monetize infringing use of music by brands on social media
  • fka Watchdog
Business Development

Advisor & GTM

Aug 2024Jul 2025 · 11 mos

  • met the founders pre-company founding - we built the business from the ground up initially, and later on with the founding team

Advisor

May 2024Jul 2024 · 2 mos

Fanfeed

Product Advisor

Feb 2025Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Los Angeles, California

  • social media app strengthening the relationship between indie artists & fans

Mayk.it

New Venture Development (covers.ai)

Feb 2025Sep 2025 · 7 mos · Los Angeles, California

  • ai song remix tool designed to promote new releases and music catalogs

Alltrack performing rights

Marketing Lead

Jul 2024Jun 2025 · 11 mos · Nashville, Tennessee

  • new performing rights organization (PRO) attempting to disrupt the sector and bring transparency/equity to songwriters/music publishers

Artist growth

Marketing Consultant

Mar 2024Aug 2024 · 5 mos · Nashville, Tennessee

Openplay

Business Development Consultant

Sep 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York, New York

  • music content supply chain management and delivery tool for music metadata and song files, customers include upstart indies to major labels

Culture technologies

Founder & CEO

May 2023Present · 3 yrs · nyc / mexico city / los angeles

  • The tech and culture industries are intertwined, yet fail to understand each other's viewpoints.
  • Culture Technologies (CT) is an advisory and consulting firm in music tech and the creator economy - operating in the tech industry while placing importance on the needs of artists and creative companies.
  • Music tech encompasses the diverse set of tech platforms used for music creation, distribution, and monetization.
  • CT helps companies:
  • Launch technical products within the music tech space and the creator economy
  • Go-to-market, sell, and market to music tech/creator platform users (usually B2B - music labels, publishers & distributors; or B2C - artists, producers, songwriters, and video creators)
  • Current & past clients include:
  • Music tech & creator economy startups
  • Watchdog/Third Chair - help music copyright owners monetize commercial use of their music on social media
  • OpenPlay - leading music metadata, file and rights management platform for major and indie music companies
  • mayk.it (covers.ai) - automated content creation app built to help music marketers promote artists' original music
  • Fanfeed - social media app developed to strengthen fan and artist relationships
  • AllTrack - modern, tech-enabled Performing Rights Organization
  • Artist Growth - productivity tool for creators and major labels
  • Artists & artist managers
  • Rich-in-content - artist management company for Argentinian rapper Lucho SSJ
  • Austin Barmak Management - artist management company for Latin trap artists Khea and Seven Kayne
  • Arcones - Spanish music producer and songwriter
Sales OperationsBusiness DevelopmentMarketing StrategyProduct Management

Rme

Head of Creator Product Marketing

Jan 2023May 2023 · 4 mos · New York, New York

  • New PRO (performing rights organization) launched by Pex with a focus on monetizing producers and songwriters compositions used on social media

Pex

2 roles

Head of Creator Product Marketing

Dec 2022May 2023 · 5 mos · New York, New York

  • Led product marketing for creators across Pex and new performing rights organization called RME. Focused on video and music creators - including TikTok and YouTube creators, music producers, songwriters, and artists.

Product Manager - Digital Music Rights

Dec 2019Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New York, New York

  • Along with our engineering and design team, led completion of various features and projects - including our music composition interface, allowing music publishers to view their ingested composition data

Dubset media

Business Development Manager - Label & Publisher Services

Jan 2017Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · New York, New York

  • Dubset Media's primary product, MixBANK was a distribution and music clearance platform for user-generated content, mainly DJ mixes and remixes.
  • While at Dubset I was part of the Label & Publisher Services team whose primary responsibility was doing licensing deals with major and indie labels, publishers, and music distributors. Aside from content licensing, my work also included:
  • Business development, sales, and account management for Merlin, indie labels, and music distributors
  • Revenue and sales operations, ie setting up our customer and prospect database in our crm (saleforce) and managing/maintaining our sales and onboarding tracking via the tool

Redeye worldwide

Catalog Management

Aug 2015Jul 2016 · 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

Yep roc music group

Playlist Marketing

Aug 2015Jul 2016 · 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina

Mick management

Artist & Creator Marketing

Jun 2015Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Brooklyn, New York

  • Artist Management company for Childish Gambino, Frank Ocean, Walk the Moon

7s management

Touring Operations

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Denver, Colorado

  • Artist management company for Nathaniel Rateliff, Dinosaur Jr, American Authors

Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Economics

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