Kristin Schloesser

Founder We Are Team Hans, llc | Creative Strategy, Management, Development, Touring
A & R Legend Recordings
Advisor, Digital Currensy, Blockchain / ETH music distribution platform

Visionary entrepreneur, tour producer, and manager, Kristin "Gypsy" Schloesser is no stranger to innovation. Her motto is “audentes Fortuna iuvat” (fortune favors the bold), and if you add dedicated, fierce, and whip-smart to that statement, you'll have a sense of what she embodies.

Precocious and driven from an early age, Gypsy opened a gift wrapping station at the local Hallmark in Idabel, Oklahoma, when she was four and has been running businesses ever since.
Having booked & promoted at the club level in SoCal (think Macklemore in a 200 cap room, circa 2008) to managing artists such as The Memorials, she went on to manage tours such as Monster Energy Get Loud with Bone Thugs n Harmony, Captain Morgan under35potus, Scream It Like You Mean It, and The Decibel Magazine Tour, and is the CEO of We Are Team Hans, a full-service development, management, marketing, and touring machine for bands and brands.
She is also currently handling A & R for Legend Recordings, Chris Bianchi founded label, distributed through ingrooves.

Her newest obsession is cryptocurrency: "It’s the Wild West, and it's the future of currency and exchange. We are becoming decentralized, at heart, rapidly, and currency will follow."

After successfully investing and deciding to blend her love of music with tech & crypto, Gypsy joined the advisory team of Digital Currensy: a new Digital Distribution Platform utilizing blockchain and integrating cryptocurrency, founded by CEO Adrian "Swish" Smith. "I’m hopeful that music can incorporate tech and start funneling money directly to artists, allowing them to distribute their music entirely independently, as well as oversee their royalties & rights."

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