Mark Adams Founder, UNION Events & UNITED Agency
Mark is a leading speaker in youth and social media...
Matthew Adell CEO, Beatport
As CEO of Beatport, the largest source for electronic music in the world, Matthew Adell has made a career out of connecting people with the music they love...
Dana Al Salem Founder & CEO of FanFactory Ltd
In 1994 Dana co-founded Clockwork, a Stockholm based multimedia agency which built the first interactive platforms online...
Duncan Allen Music Programming, MTV UK
Duncan joined MTV in 2004 and has worked across a number of brands and territories...
Edward Averdeick Director of Music Division Peter Gabriel’s Real World
Ed joined the music business at the eve of the digital age in 1994 and has spent the majority of his time working with artists and rights-holders on developing new revenue streams...
Olly Barnes Founder, GoMix
Olly Barnes is a music entrepreneur focused on new music platforms and revenue models...
Rachael Bee Co-Founder, ILUVLIVE
Running some of the seminal black music nights of the early 90’s, Rachel went on to become a radio & TV journalist/presenter working for the BBC, Kiss FM, Live TV, ITV and Kiss TV...
Sybil Bell Founder, FM First Monday & CEO, I Like The Sound Of That
Sybil has a range of experience in music including artist and label management, planning and running events and marketing and brand consultancy...
Patrick Bingley Director, D2C Sales, Global Digital Business, Sony Music
A full directory of over 200 Artist D2C Stores here http://m2...
Ciaran Bollard CEO & Co-Founder, MUZU
Ciaran Bollard, 37, is CEO and co-founder of MUZU TV...
Sumit Bothra Managing Director, Embargo management
Sumit Bothra entered the music industry in 1996 while at The University of Pennsylvania as a College Rep for Virgin Records...
Caroline Bottomley Head of Music, Radar Music Videos
Caroline set up RadarMusicVideos, a worldwide network for independent music videos...
Mark Bounds A&R Consultant
Mark is an A&R consultant to ACM students working on artist development at all levels within the BDC...
Alex Branson SVP & Managing Director, International, INgrooves
Alex Branson joined INgrooves from RoyaltyShare Inc, where he served as a consultant during the transition period after they acquired the assets of Broad Street Digital...
Ian Brenchley Managing Director, Metropolis
Ian has been working in the music industry for 13 years mostly in major record companies, Virgin, EMI and Universal...
Jules Brookes Managing Director, Point Blank
Signed as an artist to Geffen and Chrysalis with pioneering band Raw Stylus, Jules scored a US Billboard No 1 hit with the single ‘Believe In Me’, taken from the album ‘Pushing Against The Flow’ which sold 240,000 units...
Stephen Budd Co-founder SuperVision Management, NH7 Festival, Africa Express
A long-term manager of artists and record producers, Stephen started life as a teenage roadie for Motorhead in the late 70’s...
Jed Carlson Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, ReverbNation
In his role as COO, Jed Carlson has charted ReverbNation’s course to quickly become the music marketing destination for over one million independent musicians...
Marie-Alicia Chang Co-Founder & Head of Business Development, Musicmetric
As Co-Founder and Head of Business Development at Musicmetric Marie-Alicia Chang is uniquely positioned at the forefront of the emerging global digital music industry...
Dave Chase Head of Music Partnerships, BrandAmp
Dave has been working in music marketing for close to 15 years, developing a 360 degree understanding of the workings of the music industry through roles in live music, radio, agencies, record labels and brands amongst other things...
Tim Clark Co-Founder, ie:music
Tim Clark is a founding partner, along with David Enthoven, of ie:music, the artist management company representing Ladyhawke, Jimmy Page, Robbie Williams, and Passenger as well as recently expanding to invest in ie:dance (Djs Judge Jules and Simon Patterson) and ‘This is Music’ (Findlay Brown, Little Boots and Simian Mobile Disco)...
Sarah Clover Sales and Marketing Director, notgoingtouni.co.uk
Sarah is Sales and Marketing Director for notgoingtouni...
Scott Cohen Co-Founder, The Orchard
A minimalist and strict vegan, Scott Cohen is the co-founder of digital distribution pioneer The Orchard, the largest digital distributor in the world with offices in 25 countries and a catalogue of over 2 million songs...
Richard Cohen Founder & CEO, LoveLive
Richard is Founder & CEO at LoveLive who specialise in producing, licensing, syndicating and monetizing cutting edge Live Music content across all platforms, filmed weekly from gigs, sessions and festivals around the world...
David Courtier-Dutton CEO & Founder, SoundOut/SliceThePie
David has a broad range of UK and international commercial experience at board level in both private and public companies...
Ruthie Culver NLP Professional Life Coach
Ruthie Culver is a professional life coach, using Neuro Linguistic Programming to help people increase their confidence and personal effectiveness...
Austin Daboh Music Producer, BBC 1Xtra
Austin is the Music Producer at BBC 1Xtra, leading the musical direction of the station...
Adam De Cruz Make-up Artist for X Factor, Leona Lewis
Self-taught make-up artist Adam De Cruz started his career pushing the boundaries with Katie England, in the early days of Dazed & Confused...
Tim Dellow Co-Founder, Transgressive Records
Following a stint in a math rock band and a DIY fanzine, Tim started his first label with his bandmate by releasing the debut single from Bloc Party...
Jamie Dolling Marketing Manager, YouTube
Jamie has been with Google for the past three-and-a-half years, primarily focusing on UGC contributors on the site, but with a remit that covers the promotion of channels up to, and including, the major record labels and artists...
Alex Donnelly Music & Media Consultant
A Broadcast media and Music industry expert for over 20 years, Alex started as a music discographer for the MCPS before joining Kiss FM as a librarian, then music programmer and assistant head of music for the station...
Berkeley Edwards Music Lawyer, Clintons
Berkeley worked for five years in the music industry working with record labels, promoters and management companies, before training as a lawyer...
Christopher Elkins Co-Founder, MUSO
Christopher Elkins co-founded MUSO - which provides data tools for music and media industries online - in 2010 and has helped steer the company to become the industry standard in tracking and removal of illegal content, empowering hundreds of artists, labels and media companies every day...
Melanie Etzold Project Manager, YOC
During my studies of Business Administration I focussed on the development of the music industry and the changes among the digital revolution...
Craig Evans Managing Director, Sprung Media
Craig Evans is Managing Director of music and fashion PR and digital marketing agency Sprung Media Limited...
Karim Fanous Insight & strategy at Music Ally
As well as regular editorial contributions to Music Ally - a globally recognised digital music business strategy and information company - Karim's role is focussed on strategic consultancy and partnership projects...
Cliff Fluet Partner, Lewis Silkin
Cliff joined Lewis Silkin LLP as a Partner in April 2006, a move from in-house counsel at Warner Music and legal director and company secretary for Capital Radio plc (now GCap Media plc)...
Paul Flynn Managing Director, P&P Songs
Paul qualified as a chartered accountant in 1994 and very quickly moved into music publishing at Windswept Music (London) Ltd as financial controller...
Oleg Fomenko CEO, Mflow Music
Oleg was born in a small Russian town just outside of Moscow, which also doubled as a centre of Russian military aviation, in a family of a helicopter test engineer and aircraft weapons specialist...
Jonathan Forster Global Sales Director, Spotify
Originally from the UK, but now living in Stockholm, Jonathan is passionate about developments in digital media Before joining Spotify, Jonathan spent eight years in a series of emerging management roles at digital marketing solutions company Valueclick...
Tom Frederikse Partner, Clintons
Tom specialises in Digital Media, comprising Commercial/Corporate, Intellectual Property and technology-related issues, with a particular expertise in content licensing...
Jack Fryer Senior Strategist, FRUKT
Jack is a senior strategist at FRUKT, and is an established thought leader around music fan and music industry insight...
Clive Gardiner Music Manager Director, We7
Clive looks after all things music at the UK's #1 music streaming website we7...
Charlie Gavins Partner, Lets Go Holdings
Charlie Gavins left school to join the Three Six Zero group as an artist manager...
Orlando Gittens Promoter, Musical Therapy
Orlando Gittens is a prime example of what can be achieved when hard work is coupled with creativity and a love for music...
Greg Golebiewski Founder & CEO, BuyMyPlaylist
Innovation/change management expert & entrepreneur...
Chris Goss Label Manager, Hospital Records Ltd
Chris Goss is half of the partnership behind the striking sound, and look of “Hospital”, one of the UK’s best loved independent record labels...
Jason Grant CEO, Flexewebs
Jason’s music production skills have taken an unsigned UK hiphop act (Too Much) to America, getting him signed to Mario Winans and mentored by Bad Boy Records with a $30000 advance...
Tim Hadley Director Corporate Communications, Omnifone
As Director, Corporate Communications at Omnifone, the world’s leading independent provider of cloud-based unlimited music services for consumer electronics vendors, ISPs, automotive and mobile companies, Tim is responsible for promoting Omnifone internationally...
Corin Hardy Director, Academy Films
Corin grew up in a world steeped in creatures & creativity, beginning his career as a special fx monster-maker in his bike shed, aged 12...
Keith Harris Manager to Stevie Wonder
Keith began working in the record industry in 1974 for a small independent UK label called Transatlantic records...
Ray Hayden Creative Consultant Solar Radio
Ray Hayden record producer Opaz Multimedia, creative consultant Solar Radio, producer of Solar Lifestyle magazine ( ...
Dave Haynes VP Business Development, SoundCloud
Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud, a cloud-based music platform that allows music creators and professionals to easily distribute, share and stream audio over the web...
Richard Hoare Music Lawyer, Clintons
Richard worked in the legal team of a major label whilst on his placement year at university, before joining Clintons in 2003, where he trained and qualified, and has been working as a solicitor specialising in music, and related digital and media industries ever since...
Random Impulse Artist
Championed as the innovator of an exciting, vibrant new sound set to push forward the boundaries modern music, Jovel Walker, better known as Random Impulse is quickly becoming one of the most talked about acts by both music fans and industry alike...
Danny J Lewis Point Blank Course Director
Danny J Lewis is Point Blank’s main course developer...
Corey Johnson Defenders Ent/ TheMD - Digital Holdings Group/ Crazy Cousinz/ CYL
Mr Corey Johnson has grown from a promoter and underground rapper to one of the most influential figures in the UK urban music scene...
Ben Jones Media Official, Musician's Union
Ben Jones is Media Official at the Musicians’ Union...
Yoel Kenan Managing Director, Jazz FM
Yoel Kenan is the Managing Director of Jazz FM, the leading digital Jazz radio in the world...
Liz Kessler Head of Music Video, Academy films
Liz Kessler is currently head of Music video at Academy films where she manages and produces for a diverse roster of directors...
Paul Kirkham Managing Director, The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP)
Paul Kirkham is owner and Managing Director at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, a leading school for students of guitar, bass, drums, vocals, songwriting and associated subjects, located in London...
Richard Kirstein Co-Founder, Resilient Music
Richard Kirstein is the founding partner of Resilient Music – a network of specialist consultants who advise brands on music sourcing and purchasing strategy...
Natasha Kizzie Head of Entertainment, Arnold KLP
Natasha’s path to musical enlightenment started with a law degree from Essex University in the early Nineties...
Paul Knowles Founder, International Music Community
The IMC is a talent filtering platform that will enable bands, artists and songwriters to connect and establish meaningful relationships with music industry professionals and vice versa...
Gregory Kris CEO, Decibel
Greg is CEO of Decibel, the product intelligence specialists, MidemNet finalists, and reportedly the fastest growing UK company in the digital music sector...
Kwame Kwaten Artist Manager & Music Industry Consultant, ATC Management
Kwame Kwaten is an artist manager and music industry consultant at ATC Management where he looks after Brit Award nominee Rumer, Master Shortie and Kerry Leatham among others...
Labrinth Producer & Artist
Hackney singer and producer Labrinth, whos real name is Timothy McKenzie, has produced a No 1 hit for Tinie Tempah and co-wrote his singles Pass Out and Frisky, worked with JLS, Pixie Lott and Ellie Goulding...
Gunnar Larsén Global Sales Director, Aspiro Music
Gunnar has been active in the mobile entertainment industry since 1998, and is currently serving as Global Sales Director for Aspiro Music, the company behind WiMP...
Michael Lawrence Agent, CODA Music Agency LLP
Michael started his career at Luton Students Union as an Events Manager...
Ellie Lawson Artist/Founder, Create Your Own Reality
Ellie Lawson is an independent Folk-Pop Singer Songwriter with her own label Create Your Own Reality...
Peter Leathem Executive Director, PPL
Peter Leathem joined PPL as Head of Legal and Business Affairs in 2002 and, following several positions within the company since, was appointed to his current position of Executive Director in October 2008...
Philip Lee Creative Director, XL Recordings
Phil is Creative Director at the independent record label XL Recordings, the home to Radiohead, The White Stripes, MIA and Tyler The Creator to name a few...
Helienne Lindvall Music Media Writer, The Guardian
Helienne is an award winning professional songwriter, musician, and music media writer for the Guardian...
Paulette Long Director, Westbury Music
Paulette Long has worked within the music industry since leaving college in 1984...
Javier Lopez Director UK Sales - Music Division - Midem
Javier Lopez is the Director UK & Ireland Sales – Music Division - for Midem, the original and most important global music trade show and conference, which has been taking place in Cannes for the last 45 years...
Didier Lord Worldwide Music Director, Ubisoft Entertainment
For over 15 years, Didier Lord has refined his skills in music production, interactive audio, management, strategy, and music business...
Emma Mansfield Founder, High Roller
On finishing her degree at London College of Fashion, Emma swapped hemlines for basslines and travelled the world creating and promoting music experiences for brands such as Hed Kandi, BACARDI and Heineken...
Korda Marshall Chairman, Infectious Records
After starting his career at RCA Records in 1983, Korda became A&R Director of the label in 1988 and counted Ash, Garbage, The Blow Monkeys, The Wedding Present, Pop Will eat Itself, Londonbeat and Take That among his signings...
Stefano Martinelli Head of Music Dada.net, Dada S.p.A
Stefano Martinelli is Head of Music Dada...
Pamela McCormick Director, Urban Development
Pamela McCormick’s career began working for jazz promoter Assembly Direct, since which she has worked with John McLaughlin and concert pianists Katia & Marielle Labèque...
Philippa McEvoy International Strategy and Projects Manager for Music, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)
Pip McEvoy has worked with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) since 2001 first as an International Trade Adviser assisting Creative companies in the London region and then in UKTI HQ as an International Strategy and Projects Manager for Music...
James McGuinness Senior Label Manager - Absolute Marketing and Distribution Ltd
Started in the independent retail sector, working at Eat the Beat record shop in Bristol as head buyer and shop manager...
Mike McNally Consultant & Lecturer, ACM
Mike McNally found his way into the music industry via a career in media working for the NME, Melody Maker, GQ & Virgin Radio...
Pat McNulty Web Editor, Cosmopolitan
Pat McNulty is a web editor with a passion for online media, social networking and fashion...
Tim Medcraft Managing Director, Powis Music
Powis Music Limited, was formed in July 2008 with the key aim to successfully "Develop Acts and Build Careers"...
Chris Meehan Co-Founder, Sentric Music
In 2005, Chris co-founded Sentric Music which is an innovative independent publishing company allowing artists to self manage their copyrights...
Jimmy Mikaoui Founder, My Major Company
Jimmy is Head of the MyMajorCompany UK platform (MMC)...
Dick Miller Director, Rightsman
Dick Miller is a Director of artist rights management company Rightsman, working day to day with artists seeking commercial opportunity within his broad network of record labels, distributors, digital, live agents, marketing and promotional channels worldwide...
Daniel Millington Performer Recruitment Account Manager, PPL
Dan Millington is a PPL Performer Account Manager whose responsibility is to work with new and up and coming artists...
Richie Montana R1
With over 15 years in the music business, I have honed and developed my production and engineering skills within the UK music scene and have networked and worked with the finest talent that the UK has to offer...
Lee Morrison Believe Digital UK
With a career in distribution spanning over the last 17 years Lee has a wealth of knowledge and experience...
Mazen Murad Mastering, The Metropolis Group
Starting his professional career in 1991 Mazen quickly found himself in some of the most prestigious studios in the world including EMI's 301 Studios, Australia...
Stephen Navin Chief Executive, Music Publishers Association
Stephen has had a multi-layered career spanning 30 and more years in the entertainment business...
Rachel Nelken Music Development Consultant, Arts Council
A music development consultant, Rachel Nelken has been working in the music industry/funded music sector for the last 13 years...
Miriam O’Keeffe BBC Project Manager, Performing Arts Fund
Miriam O'Keeffe runs the BBC Performing Arts Fund, the BBC's charity that provides support and development to individuals and groups across the performing arts...
Stephen O’Reilly UK Sales & Marketing Manager, Mobile Roadie
Stephen has worked in the fashion, sports and music industries for over 10 years specialising in online and mobile marketing, sponsorship and PR...
Owen O’Donoghue Sales Representative UK and Ireland, Facebook
Owen has worked in the online and IT industry for 5 years...
Laurence Oxenbury Head of International, PPL
Laurence has worked in collective management for ten years, and has been responsible for putting over $100million into the pockets of performers...
Wil Padley Founder & CTO, BandCentral
Wil Padley is an award winning digital creative with 12 years experience...
Shailendra Pandey Senior Analyst: Mobile Content & Applications, Informa Telecoms & Media
Shailendra is a Senior Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media and works on research and consulting projects on topics including Mobile Advertising, M-Commerce, Mobile Social Networking and Mobile Entertainment services such as Mobile Music, Games, and Mobile TV & Video...
Chris Parles Music Industry Skills & Development Manager
Chris worked as an A&R Manager for 3 major record labels including Virgin (EMI), Mercury Records (Universal) and Sony music; signing and working with artists such as Blue, Atomic Kitten, Robert Plant, Natalie Imbruglia and Lulu, as well as BBC’s Fame Academy talent show...
Dave Pichilingi Director, Liverpool Sound City
David Pichilingi is Founder and Director for Sound City...
Gregor Pryor Partner, Digital Media, Reed Smith
Gregor is a partner in the global Technology and Media team at Reed Smith with broad experience advising clients in the digital music sector concerning the acquisition, production, licensing and distribution of content on digital networks...
Steve Purdham CEO & Founder Investor, We7 Ltd
Steve is CEO and founder investor in We7, the new ad funded Music phenomenon...
Victor Redwood-Sawyerr Relationship Manager, Music, Arts Council
Victor has over 20 years experience as an accomplished musician, songwriter and record producer, winning Mobo and American Soul Train awards for his international work in soul, R&B and hip hop...
Stephen Roachford Music Manager to Andrew Roachford, M3 Management
Stephen has worked in the music business for 22 years...
Rich Robinson European Senior Creative Sync Director
Rich Robinson is European Senior Creative Sync Director at EMI music, looking after all of EMI's music that goes into ads, tv, film and computer games...
Conor Roche Head of Broadcast & New Media, The Roundhouse
Conor is responsible for the creative use of new technologies at the Roundhouse while ensuring emerging talent have access to platforms and technologies required to realise their creative ambitions...
Benji Rogers Founder, Pledge Music
Benji Rogers is an independent musician from London who has been making his own records since 1999 and has also worked in television and film as a camera operator and audio engineer...
Sem Ronzoni CEO & Co-Founder, SplitGigs
SplitGigs is a social network that helps emerging bands or musicians find gigs to play, through a simple but highly effective idea: the "SplitGig"...
Mike Rosenthal OK Go, Digital & Online Strategy Manager
Mike Rosenthal began his career with OK Go in the fall of 2009 as the band’s Digital and Online Strategy Manager...
Patrick Ross Head of Marketing & Artist Relations, AWAL
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Patrick graduated with honours from Belmont University in Nashville, TN with a BBA in music business...
Rebekah Roy Fashion Stylist for Kaiser Chiefs, Kate Nash, Little Boots
Rebekah Roy is a fashion stylist and creative consultant based in London ...
Henry Semmence Managing Director, Absolute Marketing and Distribution Ltd
Henry arted his career in independent retail (Bonaparte Records)...
Shain Shapiro UK & EU Manager, CIMA
Shain Shapiro is the UK and EU manager for CIMA, the Canadian Independent Music Association...
Eric Sheinkop Co-Founder & CEO, Music Dealers
A University of Wisconsin graduate, Eric's education includes a degree from the prestigious Full Sail music entertainment and production school in Florida and several programmes in Italy and Argentina...
Al Shuckburugh Grammy Award Winning Songwriter
West London native Al Shuckburugh (aka Shux) has come a long way since his early beginnings experimenting with a four track recorder...
Charlie Sloth Artist
Since 17, Charlie became known on the Garage scene as a previous member of Hype Squad before forming break-off Hip Hop group, Grimey Limeys...
Ara Stevens Co-Founder, Jump Off TV
Born and raised in London, Ara gained a B(A) in Multimedia Design at De Montfort University and has worked in areas including Night Club Promotion, Web Design, Creative Writing and Advertising (McCann Erickson, Grey, BBH, DDB)...
Susan Stone Owner & Creative Director, Tonic Music
Susan has been a music supervisor for 8 years in both the US and UK...
Sanj Surati Head of Music, Musion Systems Ltd
Musion Systems, the company behind 3D holograms used by Gorillaz, Tokio Hotel, Cheryl Cole and Janet Jackson has Sanj Surati as Head of Music, to grow the company’s presence in the sector...
Rudy Tambala Co-Founder & CEO, d2mondo
Rudy Tambala is the co-founder and CEO of d2mondo, the UK platform for building direct-to-fan sites...
Kim Taylor-Bennett TV Presenter & Journalist
Kim Taylor Bennett’s career could have peaked when Green Day plucked her teenage self onstage to play guitar with them...
Denver Thomas Founder & CEO, Music2Text
Denver’s career started in 1985 with scholarships from performance arts schools such as London Studio Center and the Urdang Academy...
Twin B Artist, BBC 1Xtra
Alec 'Twin B' hosts the BBC 1Xtra Breakfast Show and has been a 1Xtra DJ for over five years now...
Simon Vandi Founder, SimonVandi.com
Simon has worked for the Top 5 Investment banks in the world, providing management and strategic business architecture services for some of biggest banking programs globally...
Julian Wall Director of Independent Member Services & International Events, BPI
Julian Wall is Director of Independent Member Services and International Events at the BPI...
Jon Webster CEO, Music Managers Forum
Jon Webster spent the early part of his career at Virgin – initially retail, then the record label in the 80’s where he was instrumental in the founding of the Now! series...
Laura Whitticase Manager of British Music Abroad, PRS Foundation
Laura Whitticase is Manager of British Music Abroad and Applications Co-ordinator at PRS for Music Foundation...
Marc Williams Music Manager to Labrinth
Marc Williams is a British Dance producer, writer and artist manager who is best known as the founder of seminal dance acts A Homeboy A Hippie and a Funki Dredd (hardcore house), Project 1 (Jungle) and pop act Da Three Amigos (Big Beat)...
Teemu Yli-Hollo Co-Founder & CEO, AudioDraft
Teemu Yli-Hollo is the CEO and Co-Founder of AudioDraft...