About Us

Mission and Team

We foster music creation and enrich music experiences.

Our Mission

Easy Song's mission is to foster music creation and enrich music experiences. We accomplish this by combining amazing people with outstanding technology. Our recipe for success is our spirit of humility, constant improvement, and entrepreneurship. We believe life sounds better when artists thrive.

Our Team

We take great pride in our amazing customer service. When you call, a real person answers the phone right away. These are the special individuals who answer the call day in and day out to make music easier for everyone.

Dave Mark

Licensing Agent

Dave is a Minnetonka native who studied audio production at MMI - formally the legendary Flyte Tyme Studios. Whether he is performing, producing, or teaching music, he is always happiest when collaborating with creatives. In his free time, Dave loves building guitars, cooking, and adding to his vinyl collection. He is excited to help you on your future project!

Tim Kosel

Director of Operations

Tim studied audio engineering at IPR in Minneapolis, MN. After many years of recording and performing music, he joined Easy Song in 2015. He lives with his wife and 4 kids and they take advantage of every opportunity throughout the year to go camping. He enjoys staying active by playing broomball in the winter and volleyball in the spring through fall, but he finds most joy in sharing new music with his family and friends.

Mark Meikle

Co-founder and CEO, Director of Technology

Mark is passionate about effectively combining technology and humanity to improve music for everyone. He enjoys spending time with his two daughters, Grace (5) and Lily (4), playing the piano, coding, swimming, and hiking.

Patrick Stewart

Director of Marketing

Patrick lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Allison, his daughter, Mia (6), and his two dogs, Luna and Laika. In his spare time, he enjoys hunting for new additions to his punk and metal vinyl collection, biking, and horror movies.

Joe Jacobs

Licensing Manager

Joe regularly performs music, produces other artists in his studio and enjoys playing pool in his free time. He is known around the office for his voice impressions of many well known cartoon characters and celebrities. He also loves spending time with his wife (Megan) and kids (Riley 4, Aiden 1).

Liz Deyoe

Liz is a professional guitarist, both as a solo artist and as a member of The Foxgloves. She has a degree in guitar performance and is endorsed by the Canadian luthier House Guitars. In her spare time Liz keeps busy with gigs, teaching guitar lessons, and working on her current handicraft project.

Cady Jenniges

Marketing Assistant

Cady is a self-taught musician, born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. She is certified in Music Business from New York University and is a Licensing Expert and part of the Marketing Team. A music lover from the first time she heard the Temptations and a writer since she first picked up a pen, Cady firmly believes music is better when they have total control of their works. She's a proud cat mom and auntie to four little ones.

Adam Glover

Director of Data

Adam loves making data-driven improvements to our customer service processes. He is our resident “spreadsheet geek”. Adam has a degree in music and years of experience as a gigging musician. When he’s not at work, he enjoys playing music and relaxing at home with his wife. He likes long walks on the beach and his favorite TV shows include Gilmore Girls, Brooklyn 99, and Bob’s Burgers.

Tom Hathaway

Business Development Manager

Tom is passionate about connecting people and organizations in the music industry so all can prosper, with a particular focus on helping independent artists thrive. Tom is Easy Song's resident East Coast transplant who fell in love with Minnesota. Tom plays bass in a punk band, loves his wife Shelby and daughter Zelda, and enjoys hiking, swimming, and weather permitting, taking long walks on frozen lakes.

Charisse Phernetton

Director of Accounting

Charisse handles the daily royalty processing and accounting, and contributes as a Custom Licensing Agent. She lives in Minneapolis, MN. In her spare time Charisse enjoys watching movies, reading, beading, sewing, and costume making.

Aaron Halvorson

Licensing Agent

Aaron has a degree in Music Business, and spent 6 years as a wedding, event, and karaoke DJ. Previous to joining Easy Song he spent a decade in the real estate industry negotiating commercial level contracts. In his free time he enjoys playing and writing music, traveling, camping and trying new types of food.

Aaron Green

Co-founder, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Director of Sales

Aaron is enthusiastic about anything that has to do with the art of sales and continuing to develop and cultivate strong relationships with any human he encounters. He lives in Maple Grove, MN with his wife, Stephanie, his daughter Ally (11) and his son Tyler (7). He enjoys fishing (summer and winter), reading, playing any card or board games, playing and coaching sports with his kids.

Kinsey Greenlee

Customer Service Coordinator

Kinsey is a recent college grad excited to venture into her adult life. As a big lover of music, Kinsey continues to pursue a career in the music industry after being a DJ for non-commercial and commercial radio for 5 years. In her spare time, Kinsey loves to adventure and shop with friends, read a good book, journal, attend concerts, and discover new music everyday.

Indie music roots

In 2005, we started out as a mobile recording service for churches, schools, and community groups. We produced quality albums, affordably. We knew we wanted to do things legally, and that meant clearing permission for the cover songs we produced.

EasySongLicensing.com

We got good at licensing and decided to help others. In 2007, we started EasySongLicensing.com and began offering Cover Song Licensing services to the public. In 2016, we added Custom Licensing services, where we help you clear music for any use, including YouTube, film, print, web, tv, advertising, corporate, derivatives, theatrical rights, and more.

Rebrand to Easy Song

In 2021 we dropped "licensing" from our name because it no longer described the scope of our expanded offerings, which now included publishing administration, music business support services, copyright registration, music clearances for any use, digital reporting services for publishers, backing track services, and a web API for partners.

Affecting positive change

Today, we serve over 212,000 happy customers and deliver millions of dollars in royalties each year. We are proud of the changes we have brought to the music industry, including lower minimum quantities, the ability to license any song, and fast, friendly customer service."

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