Adam Gonsalves
Adam Gonsalves is the owner and senior mastering engineer at Telegraph Mastering in Portland, Oregon. He has mastered and cut records for Elliott Smith, Willie Nelson, Peter Buck, The Dandy Warhols, Dead Moon, Vampire Weekend, Sufjan Stevens, Rogue Wave, Blitzen Trapper, and thousands more.
Taishi Fukuyama
Taishi Fukuyama is Chief Marketing Officer at Qrates, an On-Demand Vinyl service that works with musicians who crowdfund their projects to produce as few as 100 records. Previous to his current role, he was the market development representative in Japan for various industry leading music technology companies including the Echo Nest/Spotify and more.
Jim Donio
Jim Donio is President of the Music Business Association (Music Biz), the U.S. trade organization focused on building the future of music commerce. Since becoming President in 2004, Donio has evolved the organization from being primarily physical retail-centric to a diverse and inclusive community representing the breadth of today’s business. He has also revitalized Music Biz’s annual convention, making it […]
Chad Brown
Chad Brown entered the world of vinyl manufacturing in 2001 as the owner of greater Toronto-area pressing plant, ACME Vinyl. After closing his plant to pursue a role in a medical device startup which engineered MRI equipment, he soon found himself eager to re-enter the vinyl industry. However, this time he planned to utilize his […]
Ryan Smith
Ryan Smith has been mastering records at Sterling Sound for the last 15 years. He learned the art of vinyl mastering from the late great George Marino. He cuts a wide range of projects for high profile artists such as Adele and Keith Richards to acclaimed audiophile reissues including Elvis, Counting Crows and Paul Simon.
Noble Musa
Mr. Musa is Vice President of Microforum Inc., an optical disc manufacturing company that is capitalizing on the vinyl resurgence. Microforum has recently added Vinyl record manufacturing to its service offering (January 2017). With over 20 years of experience in the multimedia industry, Mr. Musa oversees new business opportunities as one of the Managing Directors […]
Mark Piro
Mark Piro is the founder of Analog Spark, the audiophile imprint of Razor & Tie focused on the reissue of classic and acclaimed albums on 180-gram vinyl and SACD. The label insists on using the original master tapes, best mastering engineers and pressing plants to ensure that their releases are of the highest quality. In […]
Jack Stoughton, Jr.
Jack Stoughton is the President of Stoughton Printing Co., a Southern California firm that has been serving the recording industry since 1965, at a time when there were 27 pressing plants in the Greater Los Angeles are. Initially founded as a label supplier, within a couple of years, Stoughton was supplying slicks for the jacket […]
Andrew Rossiter
Andrew Rossiter is general manager and co-owner of ORG Music, a vinyl-focused label, which has reissued albums from a broad range of catalogs including Atlantic Records, Sun Records, Columbia, Black Lion, and CTI, among many others, in addition to working with current artists like Mike Watt, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and Dot Hacker. ORG Music […]
Billy Fields
Billy Fields is Vice President, Sales, Account Management for WEA, the artist & label services arm of Warner Music Group. As the company’s resident vinyl expert, Fields serves as the day-to-day conduit for independent retailers and the three major independent music coalitions; overseeing all aspects of vinyl production, planning, marketing, sales forecasts, projections and strategy.
