Ian has been working in the music industry for 13 years mostly in major record companies, Virgin, EMI and Universal. He has worked with artists such as the Spice Girls, Massive Attack, Gomez, the Verve, Placebo and Kelis through to Take That, The Killers, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, The Black Eyed Peas, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Rihanna and Mariah Carey etc.  From Universal Ian moved to Metropolis to take over as Managing Director. Since joining in 2008 Ian has moved Metropolis into a lot of new areas from live events through to new technologies and continues to diversify and evolve the business.