Programming and Event production in Music and Film;
1997 - Co-producer Short- and Advertizing, Paris
1999 - Hackney Road Studios, London
2005 - Showcases, Touring, Events, Artist Mgmt, Licensing,
North America/Asia
2010 -> Film events; CMJ, Culture Collide, Summer Stage, Hollywood Bowl,
Peace & Love Film Festival, Seaport Film & Food Festival, SXSW co-Production panel
Music events; House Of Sweden, SXSW Music, CMJ, Chris Garneau Asia Touring

My early background lay primarily in A&R and artist development for major record labels. As a consultant, I continued this work with a number of major and independent music companies and was fortunate to work with a number of hugely successful artists.

When I began to consult to the music education sector on artist development and career progression I became increasingly interested in the field of overall performance development, irrespective of discipline. This led to research in the field of elite sports performance in order to draw analogies between performance development in the music industry and the way in which sport develops both its performers and those tasked with the development of those performers. Subsequently I expanded the research beyond the fields of sport and music.

I believe that within any industry we should be looking at the simultaneous performance development of both the performer and their support teams to the highest level, whether that be in music companies, sports teams or any wider organisation.

I believe there are many lessons that seemingly unrelated industries can learn from, and exchange with, each other in pursuit of optimum performance development.

I am currently researching a paper based on this principle entitled 'The Talentborrowers'.