Chuck Gorman
Chuck Gorman architected Barnes & Noble’s entry into the music retail space, including the launch of vinyl and turntables. He has partnered with artists, labels, distributors, and electronics manufacturers to develop and expand the market in a variety of ways. Chuck has worked with the music industry throughout his entire career.
Jim Kaplan
Jim is the founder of Record Collector News and a lifelong record collector and a native Los Angeles, During a publishing career that has spanned over thirty years, he has worked at a number of notable publications, including LA Weekly, Los Angeles New Times and the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. He has produced numerous record […]
Jean-Luc Renou
Jean-Luc Renou is French and 56 years old. He graduated in 1986 a Master’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and worked most of his career in developing audio visual solutions for satellite / terrestrial / cable and IP networks, mainly at Thomson then Technicolor companies. In 2012, he became the owner of Mulann activities […]
Bob Levi
The world’s largest audio society, his sixteenth consecutive year leading the organization. He continues to be an audiophile, opera singer, and music lover spanning over five decades. He is Senior Associate Editor at Large for Positive Feedback, a contributor for more than 15 years. Awarded one of their first Broadcast Journalism degrees by the University […]
Dan Marter
Dan Marter is the owner of INTHECLOUDS, a New Jersey-based vinyl record label known for using outside the box ideas to create unique and collectible vinyl packages. His in-house marketplace service, Partly Cloudy, allows bands to create & sell their own custom products online on-demand including CDs, cassettes, t-shirts and Vinyl records, drop shipped directly […]
Sarah Robertson
The company maintains extensive relationships with many of A2IM’s leading labels and distributors and has become among the industry’s most trusted and valued independent client advocates by providing creative, cost-effective, vendor-agnostic Vinyl Record Pressing, Packaging and Optical Media solutions with a customer service ethos bordering on the fanatical. Sarah is proud to be a founding […]
Luke Hodson
Luke Hodson is the founder and CEO at Awesome Merchandise. Starting back in 2005 with just a handheld button machine in a bedroom, Awesome now makes more than 700 custom products in house. They’ve printed more than 80 million pieces of merch and have factories in Leeds, UK and Austin, TX. Awesome also run e-commerce, […]
Matt Block
MATT BLOCK is Director of Content Development at Warner Music Group and founder of Run Out Groove, a vinyl-only imprint under the WMG-umbrella that allows fans the opportunity to vote on the next modern day collectible. Run Out Groove releases limited, high quality recordings of new custom collections, unreleased masters from the vault and out […]
Jocelynn Pryor
Jocelynn has worked with thousands of labels and artist over the years, and has coached, consulted, mentored and served as a guide to strategize and monetize this art form. Her distribution achievements include bringing to market such breakout acts as The Civil Wars, Lindsey Stirling, Anderson.Paak, Five Finger Death Punch, Major Lazer, Five Finger Death […]
Dean Tabaac
Dean Tabaac oversees AMPED which has become one of the fastest-growing Independent Distribution Companies in the world. Offering full-line physical and digital distribution worldwide. AMPED has the largest account base in the world. He resigned from TEAM a company he co-founded which specialized in artist development to take on the task of building AMPED as […]
