Stefan Goldby

In summary: Over the past four decades as an executive and as a project manager, Stefan has created thousands of hours of original content, generated $10M+ in revenues and investment, built online communities of up to 10 million members, and won 9 Billboard Awards for outstanding music television.

Stefan Goldby began his career in the entertainment industry as a college radio DJ in deepest Ohio while on an English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth scholarship in 1992.

After subsequently completing his University degree in the UK (while DJ’ing in nightclubs and on the radio) in 1995, Stefan joined Denver, CO’s Music Link team as host of their family of award-winning PBS music television shows.

Learning at the side of director Michael Drumm, he produced short and long form interviews, commercials, and concert shoots for artists, record labels and media companies. Alongside the production work, Stefan also managed the Music Link Retail Network, a partnership with local independent record stores that leveraged multimedia displays and the impact of video content to directly boost music sales.

In 1999, Stefan move headed to the West Coast as Music Link’s Senior Producer, repping the company for concert shoots, and co-founding the Red-Eye Network as a partnership of music television shows and a collection of independent California stores.

After the Red-Eye Network was acquired by Launch.com/Yahoo), Stefan then launched Chemistry Productions as a hub for additional freelance work. With Chemistry his content skillset as a producer/programmer expanded across radio, print, online, retail and in-flight networks and while also supporting Christine Goldby‘s independent post-production projects.

From 2004-2009, Stefan spent an intensive 5-year span as part of the maniaTV Network’s founding team. Initially leading content acquisition (and securing the rights to air more than 15,000 music videos online) and music programming (booking more than 1,000 artist interviews), Stefan’s role steadily expanded until he was named Vice President of Production and Programming for what became the world’s first internet television network.

Alongside his work as a company executive leading what became a 100-member production staff and building next-gen broadcast studios (some in nightclubs and Hollywood Hills homes), Stefan served as the Executive Producer for maniaTV’s music, action sports and gaming networks, creating thousands of epsiodes of internet TV and integrating the content with extensive marketing and sales efforts. From a standing start, maniaTV’s viewership increased to 10 million users per monthly, generated millions of dollars in branded entertainment sales and reached profitability, before being wiped out in the internet crash of 2008-9. 

Post-maniaTV, Stefan has continued to take on a wide variety of challenges across the entertainment, business, and nonprofit worlds as a project manager, business consultant, content executive, and revenue/fundraising strategist. 

Following a relocation to the Pacific NorthWest in 2015, clients have including iconic craft coffee house Pegasus, legendary musician Lol Tolhurst, the visionary Beauty In The Fourth Dimension art collection, nationally recognized indie record store Fingerprints , and PNW nonprofits Bainbridge Strong and Bainbridge Island Rowing.

After becoming a local business owner, Stefan recently spent three impactful years working as the President/CEO of the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, supporting, connecting and advocating 500 members as a change agent, community connector and an enthusiastic ambassador for Bainbridge Island, WA.​​

Beyond those roles at his own local independent coffee companies and record stores, Stefan is always looking for new opportunities to help artists, brands, and communities grow…

BONUS FUN FACT: in 2017, Stefan’s extensive curated collection of music videos and original entertainment content was added to the Permanent Collection of the US Library of Congress.