Innovation

Strategic advisor and consultant Brian Camelio, crowdfunding industry founder. Expert in platform innovation, digital transformation, and business model development.

Brian Camelio, strategic advisor, consultant, industy founder, ArtistShare, platform innovation, digital transformation, business model innovation, strategic advisory

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Innovation

Brian Camelio

Industry Creation Expert & Strategic Advisor

Founded A New Industry

Brian Camelio founded ArtistShare in 2001, creating a comprehensive platform model that others would later call crowdfunding. After identifying a critical market problem, he developed a scalable platform solution that transformed how businesses engage audiences, monetize through community relationships, and significantly reduce market risk by securing funding prior to product completion.

Originally built to address the music industry’s peer-to-peer file-sharing crisis, this innovation became the blueprint for platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon.

Since then, models based on the original platform—ArtistShare— have collectively facilitated billions in funding across multiple industries.

Industry Recognition

The Web Foundation, founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, selected ArtistShare for their official World Wide Web 30th anniversary timeline, recognizing it as having “made a significant contribution to the web” alongside Google, Twitter, and CERN.

Bloomberg News called Brian Camelio “one of the fathers of crowdfunding” and described him as “a post-modern Ahmet Ertegun.” Entrepreneur Seth Godin featured his work in “The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable” (2005).

As both an industry founder and Grammy Award winner, he bridges creative excellence with business innovation – a rare combination in technology and entertainment.

“That is exactly what was playing in the mind of Boston musician Brian Camelio when he founded ArtistShare, the world’s oldest crowdfunding website for creative professionals, in 2003. Following the immense success of this brave new idea, other websites soon followed suit, and crowdfunding became a full-fledged industry.” ~ Forbes, 2016

Advisory Experience & Recognition

Brian has shared insights on platform innovation and digital transformation at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, NYU Law School, The Juilliard School, George Mason School of Law, and leading institutions worldwide.

For 15 years, he served as a guest professor at leading creative institutions bridging technology and creative innovation. He has contributed strategic insights to government policy research, including advisory work for the Canadian Department of Heritage on emerging business models and copyright reform.

Strategic Advisory & Consulting

Brian provides strategic advisory services and consulting to executives and organizations on platform strategy, digital transformation, and business model innovation. His advisory work combines documented market creation experience with cross-sector innovation expertise for clients seeking competitive advantage through platform strategy and scalable business models.

Learn more: CamelioGroup.com