Delaney Dean Spiess

She/Her/Hers

The creative catalyst and communication driven professional, Delaney, has dedicated her career to platforming songwriters and their stories. After acquiring her Music Business degree from MTSU, she started her career as a data analyst temp at Universal Music Publishing Group in Franklin, Tennessee. A six month contract turned into a year and a half of learning and expanding her excel and analysis skills. She was afterwards hired for a full time position as a Global Royalties Analyst at Universal Music Publishing. Honing in on her excel proficiency, learning how to create royalty statements and amend erroneous songwriter percentage splits, Delaney was gaining an further understanding on how much goes into a song.

Delaney initially started at Gabb as a Music Coordinator. After a week at the company, Delaney was promoted to a Product Manager position. Delaney helped the team before Gabb Music's launch in 2022 by learning, building and still managing the CMS for the platforms Gabb Music and Gabb Music Plus. Delaney helped communicate between Developers and Business team members in preparation for the testing and launch of subscriptions for the first time in the Gabb ecosystem. Delaney also built and still maintains the Programming Schedule that maps out each new release and all home page changes for the week on the Gabb Music and Gabb Music Plus platforms. She's used the Programming Schedule to plan out all marketing initiatives from major recording label focuses, to holiday marketing, to anything in between.

Now as Content Manager, Delaney ensures that Gabb Music and Gabb Music Plus are efficiently programmed with releases kids anticipate. In 2025 Time gave Gabb Music recognition on the “Best Inventions of 2025” list. The time Delaney has spent understanding the music industry has made her adaptable and has only inspired her to dream bigger and accomplish greater.