Our Team

Michael Cain

Cofounder and CEO

  • CalArts, BFA, MFA

  • 25+ years of experience in music education

  • Grammy-nominated jazz pianist

  • Performed with Bobby McFerrin, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Levert (O’Jays), Terence Blanchard.

  • Faculty: Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, The New School, University of Minnesota

  • Director, Electronic Music and Recording Arts (EMRA) at MacPhail Center for Music

  • Co-Founder of national innovative music education and recording program, teaching music to students grades 3-12 helping them create, record, and distribute their own music

Jeff Sugerman

Cofounder and COO

  • Northwestern University, BA

  • Washington University, PhD

  • 30 years of experience as executive leader across technology, training, and publishing industries (spanning start-ups to public entities)

  • Advisor to Sentinel Capital Partners (NYC) and Shoreview Partners (Minneapolis)

  • Director/Advisor to 6 middle-market technology-enabled high growth companies

Vlad Voina

Technical Director

  • Goldsmiths, University of London, BSc

  • Senior Software Engineer, Roli (UK)

  • Founder, Technical Director, Vocode

Isaac Rohr

Manager, Core Music Library

  • California Institute of the Arts, MFA Composition

  • Brandon University, BA

  • Studio Coordinator, Electronic Music and Recording Arts at MacPhail Center for Music

Alex Voina

Software Engineer

  • Masters in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

  • Software Firmware Engineer on embedded systems (C programming language, linux OS & networking)

  • Software Engineer for Vocode (C++, JUCE & Flutter)