Edmond Allmond is a world-renowned creative force from Southern California and holds the position of COO at the cutting-edge cybersecurity innovator iQvcloud, Inc. Edmond brings the experience and wisdom of 40 years in the music industry, joined with 35 years of success in the business of music, focused on the protection of intellectual property and marketing. He blends the business of music with the new technologies of Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains and their applications, of which he is a 10-year veteran actively working on Web3 integrations. An accomplished pianist, clarinetist, conductor, post-audio editor, composer, and producer, Edmond maintains a consultancy for several legal firms and individual musicians toward the successful recovery of royalties and protection of copyrights. He is a past VP of marketing and communications for three startups, including past head of communications for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. Before founding Allmondwerkz, LLC Allmond was communications director at the UC Berkeley Food Institute, a policy and scientific research-supporting UC organization based in the Rauser College of Natural Resources and bridging several of Berkeley’s colleges. 

His involvement in crypto technology and NFTs began with his introduction to Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 and intensified around crypto’s use in commerce upon meeting and speaking to Brock Pierce when Ethereum was launched. He was one of the first to suggest the use of a cryptocurrency for transactions in telecom, brokering the first meeting between Karl Seelig and Brock Pierce for Sprint MVNO RingPlus, where Edmond was VP of Marketing. He is now passionately engaged in the use of NFTs toward meaningful change in music as a business, and the sharing of musical and visual creations.

Edmond, as an audio post-production professional, was part of a past Oscar-winning team at Sony Pictures (Total Recall), and one of the last two staff composers at the studios. 

He also played an integral business role in production at RKO Pictures with Ted Hartley and as a sound and music editor at Saban International.

In front of the camera, Edmond worked as an on-screen pianist in many television properties over the past 20 years, including NCIS, Desperate Housewives, Devious Maids, All Seasons of Revenge, and Grandfathered, among many others.

Allmond is a member of AFM, a past IATSE editor and engineer, and a member of ASMAC. He uses his creative wisdom and business acumen to focus on protecting the rights, the work, and the revenue of creators around the world.