Jeff Truhn
Jeff Truhn is the Operations Manager and co-founder of Cascade Record Pressing in Milwaukie, OR. Prior to helping establishing Cascade, he spent the previous two decades splitting time between working in the motorcycle industry and touring as a musician. At Cascade, Truhn oversees and maintains the mechanical operations for the Pacific Northwest’s only automated record pressing […]
Sean Rutkowski
Sean Rutkowski is VP of Label & Client Relations at Independent Record Pressing. Founded in 2015, Independent Record Pressing manufactures vinyl records for primarily independent labels and is tucked neatly between New York City and Philadelphia in Bordentown, New Jersey. Sean has been with the plant since its beginnings and has over 25 years of […]
Tony Van Veen
As CEO of AVL Digital Group, the parent company of CD Baby and Disc Makers, Tony van Veen has spent 30 years helping independent artists release, distribute, and promote their own music globally. In the mid 1980s Disc Makers pioneered the complete vinyl package for independent musicians, growing the company into the undisputed disc manufacturing […]
Karen Emanuel
Karen started off her music and entrepreneurial journey as Events Sec at Leeds University, DJ-ing and booking Indie bands. Her love of music led her to a short career at Rough Trade Distribution where she started as a receptionist and ended up as Head of Production. Karen started Key Production back in 1990. Through several […]
Jay Millar
Jay Millar is a 20+ year veteran in the music industry, having spent time with Polygram, BMG, Sony, Universal, and United Record Pressing. He currently runs the Nashville office of Sundazed Music & Modern Harmonic, early pioneers and leaders in the music reissue business. In addition to Jay’s work in music, he also hosts a […]
Zane Howard
Zane Howard founded Second Line Vinyl in 2016, a state of the art record pressing plant based in Oakland, California. As CEO, Zane is leading Second Line Vinyl to be a technologically advanced music product company that delivers the artist’s intended experience. Howard has over a decade of branding & marketing (Del Monte), data analysis […]
Ali Miller
Ali is the Vice President and not the Production Manager of Furnace Mfg. She interviewed and accepted this job in 2008 because she was bored at her corporate office job. She’s never been bored since and is excited to see what the next ten years brings. She handles a little bit of everything at Furnace […]
Connie Comeau
Growing up a “city girl” in a small rural town in Wisconsin, Connie was exposed to a wide variety of music. Some of her fondest memories were made around a bonfire, in an open field, a bottle of Southern Comfort and music blaring out of the back end of a pickup—a mixture of music; Hendrix, […]
Jessa Zapor-Gray
Jessa Zapor-Gray is the Vice President of Marketing for Gig Harbor, Wash.-based vinyl reissue label Intervention Records and is a content creator and data analyst for the vinyl-centric website Vinyl Reviews. Before joining Intervention Records, Jessa worked for high-end audio manufacturer AudioQuest as a member of the product development and communications team for the award-winning […]
Chad Kassem
Chad Kassem is an audiophile pioneer and among the foremost champions of the vinyl LP. Chad’s the founder and owner of both Acoustic Sounds, Inc., the world’s largest source for audiophile recordings, and Quality Record Pressings, the world’s finest LP pressing plant. There’s also Analogue Productions, Chad’s audiophile reissue label, which includes a catalog of […]
