Brian Camelio is an American record producer, musician, entrepreneur, and founder of ArtistShare. Camelio is considered one of the fathers of crowdfunding, and "a post-modern Ahmet Ertegun" according to Bloomberg News. In 2005, he was the subject of a chapter in in The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable titled "The One Thing You Can't Download" by entrepreneur and author Seth Godin. He has been a speaker or panelist at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, Midem, The Grammy Foundation at NARAS, ASCAP, NYU Law School, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, The Songwriters hall of fame and The Future of Music Coalition.