Ruud Berends
Networking Music / IFF
Malmö, SE
Ruud Berends is the co-founder and Head of Agenda of IFF in London and advisor for Westway Lab in Guimaraes Portugal, Canadian Music Week in Toronto, SoAlive Music Conference in Sofia Bulgaria and EEMC in Sibiu Romania. From 2002 till 2018 Ruud was project manager of the various Dutch Music Export organisations and executive producer of the Dutch Impact Parties for Buma Cultuur. From 2002 - March 2023 he worked for Buma Cultuur & ESNS as Head of Conference, ESNS Exchange, international marketing and sales. In a previous life Ruud was co-founder of youth Centre Débarak in Zutphen and also co-founder and co-owner of International Booking Agency Paperclip, who broke the new and alternative scene into the eye of the mainstream through out the 80's and early 90's. The agency took loads of bands on tour all over Europe, too many to mention - but Soundgarden, Nirvana and Mudhoney and their contemporaries were all part of the hustle.
