Overview
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Nick Stumpf

Los Angeles,CA

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder, CEO

TenTen Audio
Los Angeles, CA
05.2023 - Current
  • Providing industry-leading podcast development, production and consulting services with a specific focus on creating optimal creative environments for talent, and efficient and effective production staffing.
  • Building engaging audio and video content from the ground up with the best videographers, editors, engineers, producers, composers and sound designers in the business.
  • Drawing on years of experience in every aspect of production, development, marketing and sales of hit podcasts across genres.

Head of Development, West Coast

iHeart Podcasts
Los Angeles, CA
03.2022 - 02.2023
  • Co-headed development department for iHeart Podcasts, guiding overall strategy on IP acquisition, with a focus on building long-lasting creative partnerships
  • Led on streamlining overhead and production budgets
  • Worked hands-on on select partnerships, guiding creative and consulting on execution, including Imagine Audio, Lionsgate Audio, Western Sound, Lea Pictures / Q-Code, School of Humans, Honorable Mention, and others
  • Created cost-effective staffing systems to serve internal production needs

VP Development

iHeart Podcasts
Los Angeles, CA
08.2019 - 03.2022
  • Helped guide new IP acquisition, talent relations, creative development and production of podcasts produced out of iHeart Media's LA podcast studios, including for Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network.
  • Projects included 'Dear Chelsea...' with Chelsea Handler; 'Roy's Job Fair' with the Daily Show's Roy Wood Jr; 'Poog' with Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak; 'My Momma Told Me' with Langston Kerman, and many others
  • Produced, directed, engineered, edited, sound designed and mixed 'The Ron Burgundy Podcast' with Will Ferrell, and others

Head of Audio, West Coast

iHeart Podcasts / Stuff Media
Los Angeles, CA
08.2017 - 08.2019
  • Oversaw physical build-out of LA podcast studios, and trained and supervised all west-coast engineers and editors
  • Produced, engineered, edited and wrote for 'The Daily Zeitgeist', 'Behind the Bastards', and others.

Record Producer and Mixer

Independent
New York, NY
03.2010 - 08.2017
  • Produced, mixed and mastered records and singles for a diverse collection of independent and major label artists including Nvdes, Caveman, Matt Costa, Peter Matthew Bauer, and others

Singer, Songwriter, Producer

French Kicks
New York, NY
07.1999 - 05.2010
  • Singer, principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for acclaimed indie rock band French Kicks
  • Co-wrote, performed and co-produced 4 full length albums and several EPs for Startime and Vagrant records, toured extensively in the US, Canada and the UK, and performed on national TV on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and others.

Education

Bachelor's degree - History

Oberlin College
01.1997

Languages

  • Fluent Spanish
  • Basic French

Timeline

Founder, CEO

TenTen Audio
05.2023 - Current

Head of Development, West Coast

iHeart Podcasts
03.2022 - 02.2023

VP Development

iHeart Podcasts
08.2019 - 03.2022

Head of Audio, West Coast

iHeart Podcasts / Stuff Media
08.2017 - 08.2019

Record Producer and Mixer

Independent
03.2010 - 08.2017

Singer, Songwriter, Producer

French Kicks
07.1999 - 05.2010

Bachelor's degree - History

Oberlin College
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