Paul is Professional Development Director at the Music Managers Forum, the world’s largest community of music managers with over 1500 members. He leads the ground-breaking Music Managers Accelerator supported by YouTube Music. The initiative is the world’s first independent funding and professional development programme designed solely for artist, songwriter and producer managers…

Julie McLarnon is a recording engineer and record producer, known for working solely to analogue tape.  Founder of Analogue Catalogue Studio she has recorded albums for artists including The Vaselines, Jeffrey Lewis, Lankum, King Creosote, Brigid Mae Power, Barbarossa, Brighde Chaimbeul, Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, The Shivers, Duke Special, Junior Brother and Alasdair Roberts…

Charlene’s music industry career began in gusto at the age of 17; she performed roles in publicity and tour management, working campaigns for Tom Waits (Anti), Presidents of the United States of America (Columbia), Frank Turner (Interscope), Fighting With Wire (Atlantic) and Devotchka (Anti). In 2011, Charlene set up Smalltown America Music (STAM)…

Tony Arthy is the founder of brand and music partnerships agency Worn Out Creative based in London. He started the agency in 2008 after having worked in marketing, pr and entertainment for multiple action sports distribution companies and brands including Insight, Paul Frank, RVCA, Vestal Watches and Atticus clothing. Tony’s worked with hundreds of bands including Coldplay, The Prodigy, Oasis & Muse…

Matthew Whiteside, the List Hot 100 2019, is a composer, collaborator, sound designer and concert producer based in Glasgow, named ‘One to Watch’ in the Herald’s Culture Awards 2017 and winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his work Entangled with Marisa Zanotti. His music has been described as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald. In 2020 he won the SMIA Award for Creative Programming…

Rocky is a producer, mixer and songwriter from Belfast. He is an enthusiastic supporter of new music. This sees him collaborating in a wide range of genres, from doom metal all the way through to opera. Recent projects include Nathan Connolly, The Wood Burning Savages and The Florentinas. He owns Start Together Studio, a multi-studio facility that's provided thousands of sessions for local & international artists, labels and broadcasters…

Phil has been an Artist Manager since 1988 managing first The Levellers who achieved 1 Platinum, 5 Gold records with Phil. During Phil’s tenure the band headlined the Glastonbury Festival before starting their own 15,000 capacity Festival Beautiful Days Festival. He went on to manage The Longpigs (1 Gold record and Brit Award Nomination), and current clients include 2019 Grammy-nominated Matt Hales / Aqualung / Soren Lorensen (1 Gold record) and Duke Special (1 Platinum record), Sweet Billy Pilgrim (1 Mercury music prize Nomination…

Jo Wright works as a Music and traditional arts development officer at the Arts of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Jo has been working at ACNI for the past 6 years and she has been working in the music sector across Ireland for the past 24 years. She started out as a session brass player and a recording and live sound engineer. Jo graduated from Queen’s University in 2004 with a BSc in Music Technology before moving into artist management, development and consultancy…

Conor Cusack is an artist manager from Dublin. Beginning his music career at the ripe age of 15, he cut his teeth working behind the counter in some of the city’s finest record shops. A founding member of five-piece indie band, SPIES, the group’s output spanned a ten-year period and culminated with the release of 2018’s critically acclaimed debut LP, Constancy…

Catherine Grimes - Music Consultant and Music Supervisor. Catherine has over 30 years experience in the field of Music Rights and Music Supervision for Television. She headed up the Music Rights Team at the BBC for over 10 years, and created the music strategy for BBC Studios Production & Distribution before starting her own music supervision company in 2021. Since then has worked on a variety of television programmes including Happy Valley for BBC1 , Good Omens for Amazon Prime, Trying for Apple TV+ , Hans Zimmer…

A music enthusiast at heart, Ben’s journey in the music industry began on the cowboy side, as a journalist and roadie for acts in his local scene. This all changed when he established New Champion Management in late 2019, setting up a home and infrastructure for the artists and sounds that he loved. With global partners, 80+ million streams across the roster and live performances in 20+ countries, New Champion represents the best artists in Ireland with bespoke strategy and unwavering passion…

Rory McPartland is a music supervisor, songwriter and publisher. Beginning as singer/guitarist for the band Mike TV, he relocated to New York in 1999 and joined the sync department of EMI Music Publishing. He has also worked with Sony/ATV, Heavy Duty Music, Downtown Music and Spirit Music Publishing. Since moving back to Ireland in 2014, Rory continues to focus on sync and music publishing as the co-founder of Planet Of Sound Music Supervision (‘The Young Offenders’, ‘Nocebo’, ‘French Exit’…

Dina started as a music supervisor at Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network in NYC where she oversaw music placement for all productions and produced concerts for the network. After leaving Oxygen, she set up Planet of Sound and has music supervised various projects for Discovery Networks, FUSE, Chevy and The Blue Man Group. In 2014, she relocated to Ireland and since has worked on a dynamic range of projects including 'Joyride', the the Oscar winning short film 'An Irish Goodbye'…

Aine Cronin-McCartney is a freelance radio presenter, producer, artist manager and label manager. A regular voice on BBC Radio Ulster’s ATL Introducing show, Aine has played a key role in helping to champion the best new acts and bands emerging from across Ireland, supporting artists across an array of genres. Alongside her presenting work, Aine has sat on the panel of the NI Music Prize and the AIM Music Awards…