Music funding platform beatBread has appointed Andreea Gleeson as its Chief Government Officer.
Gleeson was beforehand CEO of Consider-owned distribution platform TuneCore, a task she left in January this 12 months.
The appointment was introduced on Thursday (September 10).
Gleeson succeeds Tracy Maddux, who has run beatBread on an interim foundation since November 2025.
Maddux took the function after the dying of beatBread co-founder and CEO Peter Sinclair in August 2025.
Maddux, who was named a long-term advisor to beatBread‘s board in November 2025, will proceed to help the corporate via the transition. He and Gleeson have each been appointed administrators.
“What drew me to beatBread is that Peter and this staff solved an actual downside for unbiased artists: the right way to entry development capital with out giving up possession or management,” stated Gleeson. “They’ve constructed subtle expertise and a funding mannequin that persistently offers artists extra alternative.
“What drew me to beatBread is that Peter and this staff solved an actual downside for unbiased artists: the right way to entry development capital with out giving up possession or management.”
Andreea Gleeson, beatBread
“I’ve spent a lot of my profession centered on what unbiased artists will want subsequent, and entry to higher capital on artist-friendly phrases is without doubt one of the most vital alternatives forward. I’m excited to work with this staff to carry higher funding options to extra artists and unbiased music companies all over the world.”
Launched in 2020, beatBread says it has offered greater than USD $100 million in advances to over 2,000 artists and labels in 42 nations.
Music lined by these advances has generated 111 billion all-time streams, based on the corporate.
beatBread raised USD $124 million in credit score and fairness capital in August 2025 from buyers together with Citi, Deciens Capital, Mucker Capital, and Benefit Capital, alongside lending companions akin to GMO.
The corporate costs and constructions its funding presents utilizing proprietary underwriting expertise known as chordCashAI.
“Our precedence over the course of the previous 12 months has been preserving the momentum that Peter Sinclair constructed, and positioning the corporate for long-term success,” stated Maddux, beatBread‘s outgoing Interim CEO. “Andreea brings a uncommon mixture of deep artist credibility, operational excellence and international scaling expertise, and he or she is precisely the best chief to take beatBread to the following stage in its development journey.”
“Andreea brings a uncommon mixture of deep artist credibility, operational excellence and international scaling expertise, and he or she is precisely the best chief to take beatBread to the following stage in its development journey.”
Tracy Maddux, beatBread
In response to beatBread, Gleeson‘s early priorities embrace increasing the corporate exterior the United States, deepening its distributor and label partnerships, and constructing on its underwriting capabilities.
“beatBread has confirmed each its expertise and its skill to fund artists nicely and at scale,” stated Ishan Sachdev, Common Accomplice at beatBread‘s lead investor Deciens Capital, and a member of the corporate’s board. “That basis creates a major alternative to scale the enterprise throughout a a lot bigger international market. Andreea brings the working expertise and monitor file of constructing international companies on the intersection of expertise and music to capitalize on that chance.”
Gleeson joined TuneCore in 2015 and was promoted from Chief Income Officer to CEO in 2021.
Her tenure took TuneCore past distribution and into artist improvement, together with the launch of TuneCore Accelerator, a advertising program for self-releasing artists.
TuneCore stated in November 2025 that, throughout the platform as a complete, self-releasing artists had earned greater than USD $5 billion since its launch in 2006.
Gleeson exited TuneCore on January 14, transferring right into a Strategic Advisor function at Consider.
She subsequently based AGA (Andreea Gleeson Advisory), via which she has suggested firms and buyers throughout music, media, and expertise.
Earlier than transferring into music, Gleeson labored in e-commerce at Hudson’s Bay Firm and Lord & Taylor.Music Enterprise Worldwide
