John Ozbay is a designer, coder & composer, founder & CEO of Cryptee.
Ozbay is an award winning creator who attended the Oscars in 2016 with his works; and musician / sound engineer with works that aired in festivals and hundreds of radio stations globally.
He's also an active contributor to the not-for-profit Open Web Advocacy, advocating for an open and fair web for everyone.
A graduate of carnegie mellon university, with master's in music & technology (computer science, electrical & computer engineering and music), he is a multiple midas gold awards winner, shorty awards finalist engineer/creative who excels in designing unique experiences and artifacts; using design, code, music, electronics and robotics as a medium of art and expression. Representing Open Web Advocacy, he publicly confronted Apple at the European Commission's televised DMA hearing in Brussels on browser competition.
MUSIC
Ozbay is a contemporary / modern classical composer with multiple published albums, and a world-wide audience. Heavily inspired and driven by minimal music, carrying rare scandinavian melodies, Ozbay's music takes the listener through a mantric, atmospheric journey.
John's music explores the boundaries of a classical genre at the intersection of art, science and technology. Minimalist piano melodies combined with glitches, digital artifacts, strings, orchestral percussions, and atmospheric sustaining harmonics; John's futuristic music can be categorized as an imaginary, fictional film score.
With a background in technology and music production, Ozbay creates unique soundscapes that blend organic instrumental performances with modern digital processing. His compositions often feature evolving patterns and textures that gradually transform over time, creating unique sonical experiences.
His works have been aired in hundreds of radio stations globally including BBC and NDR, featured in various art installations, short films and has garnered attention from contemporary classical music critics for its innovative approach to genre-blending and composition.
TECH
He's the founder and CEO of Cryptee, a privacy focused, encrypted and secure storage service for personal photos, documents, files and notes.
He's also an active contributor to Open Web Advocacy, representing the group at the European Commission's televised DMA hearing in March 2024, where he confronted Apple about their anti-competitive browser practices. His advocacy efforts contributed to the EU launching a formal DMA non-compliance investigation against Apple within a week of the hearing.
previously he worked & consulted for TBWA NY, McCann NY and Wieden+Kennedy NY. With clients like Microsoft, Mastercard, Accenture, Heineken, Coca-Cola, USPS, Delta Airlines, MGM Hotels and more.
He was a founder of McCann's Creative Technology Lab, where he has ideated, concepted, prototyped and created interactive, experiential, digital, outdoor, TV and online projects, ranging from interactive installations to experiential brand presences in NYC pride parade to interactive parks in Las Vegas.
A fanatic participant of hackathons, he has attended Facebook creative hackathon in Menlo Park, California, Google Home / actions hackathon in Google HQ, NYC. Also organized and held engineering hackathons for Microsoft Cloud, preventation of excessive alcohol use, fight against the zika virus with support from the global McCann health network.