Drew Belardo
  • @drew_belardo
  • Puerto Rico
"Having unusual foresight and imagination with practical application." Drew, a Brooklyn native, entrepreneur, music producer and audio engineer, is also the visionary, cofounder and CEO behind Uhmbrella. A music industry tech company. Building forward thinking products that upgrade the music industry. Our ecosystem is taking on the future of blockchain, smart contracts and the empowerment of music creators worldwide to enhance the music industry. 

We don't believe the Web3 and crypto bro culture will be what sparks mass adoption, so we keep the tech and decentralized philosophies at work, but way in the background. The average music creator doesn't care about how it works nor the philosophies behind it, at all. This is why we're on the forefront of positive change for the future of music by leveraging blockchain, that's it. We are the first ecosystem of its kind. A bridge from Web2 to Web3 without making that the draw. We solve a huge problem for the music creator without the creator needing "on boarding education" into Web3, it just does what it says it will do, that's all. Simple.

Aside from reimagining the entire music industry, I'm also a luxury marketing expert and music producer who sold it all and moved to Puerto Rico with my family in 2018. I became owner of a young specialty coffee farm after Hurricane Maria destroyed the coffee industry on the island. In an attempt to help rebuild, I launched a specialty coffee farm network of only the highest quality Arabica coffee trees that anyone can adopt worldwide. We helped four coffee farms on the island go to harvest. Before utility NFT's were a thing, I created utility for my coffee tree adopters by unlocking special features when they adopted a coffee tree. An adopter would receive a certificate of adoption, photo of certificate by their own tree and quarterly updates on their tree, and at harvest, a pound of coffee from their own tree. 

Wait till you see what we're doing for the music industry through blockchain. If you've read this far, the quote at the beginning of this section, is the definition for... Visionary.
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CEO Co-founder , Uhmbrella.io