Ben Fawkes

Ben has worked at SoundCloud since 2010 and has seen great changes in the company's growth both internally and externally. In the past 5 years Ben has contributed to SoundCloud now reaching 175 million unique listeners a month.

Ben's remit is to develop content partnerships with the world audio creators, this involves the likes of Global Media & Entertainment, The BBC, Comedy Central, NPR, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Vice, The Economist, Guardian and many other organisations involved in creating audio content such as radio, podcasts, audio books and anything else speech.

He is also heavily involved in developing commercial deals with both audio partners and music and management groups as SoundCloud works on monetisation starting in the U.S.