Spotify
Shimpei Suzuki is an accomplished business development professional with extensive experience in strategic partnerships and category management. Currently serving as the Head of Business Development & Partnerships at Spotify since January 2020, Suzuki previously held key roles at eBay from November 2014 to December 2019, where leadership encompassed partnerships for over $30 billion in the Americas and driving $4 billion in revenue for the North American Electronics Business. Suzuki's career also includes a significant tenure at Rakuten, managing a $100 million third-party electronics business and achieving 100% year-over-year growth. Suzuki holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from UC Irvine.
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Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.