Brian Camelio is an American musician, composer, public speaker, educator, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of ArtistShare.Camelio is considered one of the fathers of crowdfunding and potentially "a post-modern Ahmet Ertegun" according to Bloomberg News. In 2005, he was the subject of an essay entitled "The One Thing You Can't Download" in The Big Moo: Stop Trying to be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable edited by entrepreneur and author Seth Godin.