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The orchestra of minds behind DAACI are composers and musicians who believe that human input is central to music creation, putting the creative process and the rights of artists at the forefront of all we do.

Through our in-depth, expert knowledge of musicology and the industry landscape we have the perfect background to create truly transformative tools.

Team

Meet the Leadership Team

At the forefront of DAACI is a team of visionary innovators, united by a passion for empowering creativity through technology. With a commitment to supporting artists and composers, our leadership is driven by shared values of innovation, collaboration, and artistic freedom.

Inventor, Co-Founder & CTO
Dr. Joe Lyske

Joe is a polymath accomplished in diverse interdisciplinary fields such as artificial intelligence, film composition, game audio design, and aviation. 

Joe has been pushing the boundaries of creative artificial intelligence since the turn of the millennium. He has grasped elusive solutions to problems known and unknown through his knowledge of physics, sounds, mathematics, and programming. Joe’s role has paved the way for him to invent over 75 distinct granted patents in artificial intelligence, encompassing a range of creations across projectile tracking, digital signal boundary classification, AI music composition and music editing, media content tracking, and artificially intelligent emotional perception technologies.

Co-Founder & Commercial
Philip Walsh

Philip has a long history in tech ventures and is a board member of Triller, a social entertainment platform based in Los Angeles. He helped raise the company’s valuation from $100m to $2b.

Philip is the founder of Time Machine Capital, an AI incubator founded in 2014, and subsequently, TMC2, the UK's leading Creative AI venture studio with a growing portfolio of 14 innovative companies with AI at their core. 

With a strong owner/operator background, Philip advises multiple tech companies in London on strategy and is networked into various tech communities globally. He has assisted in raising millions of dollars for tech startups, a journey that began in the late 1990s in London’s financial markets, devising trading platforms for emerging instruments using new technologies.

CFO
Simon White

Simon brings over 30 years of financial leadership expertise with a distinguished career encompassing investment banking, hedge funds, and asset management.

Simon is a true innovator, harnessing his prowess, previously demonstrated as COO and CFO at GLG Partners. His leadership was instrumental in GLG's NYSE debut in 2007, boasting a valuation north of $4 billion, and he was the architect behind the operational metamorphosis of Man Group PLC post its GLG acquisition.

Since moving his focus to the tech sector in 2015, Simon has been the guiding force behind several tech start-ups and established companies in fields such as lending, mobile technology, supply chain finance, and cutting edge AI innovation.

CEO of Generative
Rachel Lyske

Rachel Lyske has taken a professional journey that has diverged from the typical performing arts career. Guided by her passion for identifying and nurturing the creative abilities of others, she has forged a unique path that has led her to becoming CEO of DAACI Generative. 

Rachel’s strength as a leader in the field of AI-based music is rooted in her background in musical composition and vocal performance. She trained as a composer at the Royal Academy of Music, London, working alongside peers and mentors in the upper echelons of musical production on screen, stage, and studio.

Her ear for novel and innovative talent made Rachel an ally in the ascendency of more than a few rising stars, as a co-producer of the exclusive and widely acclaimed industry music festival, “In The Woods”. Her contribution to developing talent continued in her role as lead vocal consultant for the main music exam body, the ABRSM, where she designed the syllabus for the current “Singing for the musical theatre” exams. She’s put her own training and theories to the test as a vocal coach and supporting vocalist for Mercury and Brit Award winners, both live and in recording and is a vocal coach at The Brit School.

Arriving at Mashtraxx in 2018, Rachel helped lay the groundwork for DAACI, the technology that now promises to open new doors in the field of AI musical composition. Her leadership ensures that the vision for DAACI puts composers and artists front and centre as it becomes the premiere composition tool for any brief, anywhere.

Corporate Development
Ken Lythgoe

Former Head of Business Development for MXX, the A.I. technology firm that secured over 30 patents for applications in diverse fields, including fintech, sports, music and media and Triller, the global social media platform. 

With twenty years of experience and an excellent track record in global direct and channel sales strategy and a history of introducing several innovative technologies into the UK as well as the sales models, competencies and processes while building brands, relationships, and sales revenues for start-ups in new, existing and emerging markets around the world in music and fintech. 

Ken is a Fellow of TMC2, the UK's leading creative venture studio and award-winning AI research and investment firm.

CEO of Adaptive
Julian Goodkind

Co-founder and CEO of Pure Sync, specialising in Sync Licensing, Music Supervision and Rights Management, delivering award-winning strategy and creative use of music across all forms of broadcast media for global brands, agencies and content creators. 

With over two decades of experience at senior level in Rights Management and Licensing, Publishing, Records, and Artist Management, Julian is a uniquely positioned executive at the intersection of Music, Entertainment, and Tech. The focus is now on cultivating, developing, and implementing a new commercial strategy to amplify future growth across the Music, Entertainment, and Tech industry.

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