Hatim Belyamani

Executive Director - Growing up in Morocco, Hatim began as a classically trained pianist, winning national and international awards.  As an adolescent, he became more interested in jazz, improvisation, and taught himself guitar.  Hatim attended Harvard University, where he filled his electives with music courses, ranging from music theory and history to composition, jazz performance, and ethnomusicology.  After Harvard, he spent most of his two years in San Francisco producing electronic music under the moniker “officerfishdumplings”.  He then lived for 3 years in Austin, TX, where music projects continued to keep him very busy, despite an increasingly demanding day-job at Apple.  Hatim then found himself back to the Bay Area, where Apple had relocated him for a senior manager position in Cupertino’s Internet Services Engineering department.  He remained in that role for almost 6 years, working on the iTunes Store, Apple’s Photo Services, .Mac and MobileMe, and finally iCloud.  Hatim left Apple in Feb 2012 to dedicate more time to his art.  Soon after, Hatim embarked on a journey in his native Morocco that paved the way for remix ←→ culture.