Patrick Joest
Managing Director, musicwise / wkdj
Germany
A 20-year career in media and music at Sony, BMG, Warner, and MTV, spanning global experience in film and television synchronization on both the supervision and rights owner sides. At BMG, he spearheaded the global sync business, leading a team of 100 people across 15 offices, while also working in Los Angeles from 2015 to 2018. Through musicwise, he consults for media, rights owners, and music technology companies (Cyanite, Catalog.ac), collaborating with Polarbear Publishing, Too Young Ltd., and publishing houses. He is also a part of Round Robin Group. His firm, wkdj.de, functions as a publisher and provides advisory services to branded companies.