The Team
Our producers are the best in the world with regard to this specific music. We have installed a mix of audio engineers, operators, recording producers and mastering experts. All these different qualities make the team divers and beyond competent. The team delivers music on a constant and quality checked basis. The entire team is passionate about music in all its senses which will give our product that particular “edge” you are looking for.
The legal side of BYATO is handled by founder Leon van Houwelingen and a dedicated Intellectual Property lawyer mr Maarten Leopold, founder and owner of Leopold Law Office based in Amsterdam. Mr Leopold has been involved from day one of the project to ensure its legal entity and guards it still today.
Management
Leon van Houwelingen, Founder
Our Founder has more than 15 years experience in media, intellectual property and economics. In the nineties he produced more than 1500 songs all together and had several sub-publishing deals with BMG & Nanada. He produced for labels like BMG, EMI, SONY, Arcade, Media Records and loads of independents. From the mid 90’s on Leon transformed from a music producer to a business manager and worked with producers, publishers and record companies.
In the late nineties Leon van Houwelingen left the music production business and focused on Intellectual Property and Economics. He worked as a consultant and business developer from Belgium for record companies, media companies and TV stations. In 2003 he was offered the position of CEO for Arcade Music Publishing, Scandinavia where he lived and worked until the end of 2005 and became a shareholder.
In 2006 Leon starts as Business Affairs at MOSES in Amsterdam. MOSES is a media company with clients like MTV, Heineken and ING Real Estate. MOSES receives a Gold Camera Award in the US for a short film and designs the audio identity for the leading Dutch Television Network. Late 2007 Leon van Houwelingen joins the team of CTRL-TV. This new TV station is setting up a linear TV station dedicated for the Video Gaming industry.
Leon van Houwelingen studied IT (Netherlands), Economics (Belgium) and Intellectual Property (Sweden)