MAIA Universe welcomes David Wille as new CEO

Music licensing platform MAIA Universe is excited to announce David Wille as its new CEO. With over 25 years of experience, David brings a wealth of expertise and a deep passion for empowering music creators.

“We are thrilled to have David onboard!” says Kristina Tunkrans, interim CEO and Board Member, ”David shares our passion for making artists and songwriter’s music more available for brands and filmmakers, without compromising on music creators’ rights.”

Before joining MAIA Universe, David Wille held key leadership positions at major and indie record companies and publishers. Most recently he ran global sync at Interstellar Music Services and was previously SVP Sync & Brand Partnerships UK / Europe at Kobalt Music. David also founded and ran his own music supervision company and has licensed music for some of the world’s best-known brands and artists. Beyond his professional accomplishments, David is a strong advocate for music creators and actively mentors aspiring artists and writers, nurturing the next generation of talent within the music industry.

“I am absolutely delighted to join the team at MAIA Universe where our mission is to deliver smart, frictionless creative and licensing for brands, filmmakers and creatives who aspire to work with commercially released music from inspiring songwriters and artists. The sync landscape is accelerating and the number of licenses is multiplying every year. MAIA Universe fully addresses this key industry challenge.” says David Wille.

MAIA Universe is a sync DSP platform offering instant music licensing from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming. The uniqueness of MAIA is that the platform offers music rights holders full control of pricing, moral rights restrictions and conditions, whilst making their music instantly available for brands and filmmakers across all different media sectors. MAIA unlocks the dormant catalogues, the sleeping beauties, of never before synced music and gives emerging artists a stage to be seen. The flexibility, transparency and respect for music creators makes MAIA one of a kind. MAIA connects two creative industries and truly nourishes the flow between human music creators and film-making industries. MAIA synchronises creative souls.