Dick Huey founded digital media marketing, social strategy, and consulting powerhouse Toolshed in 2001, and has orchestrated over 350 digital campaigns in his career.  Toolshed is currently utilizing proprietary technology to search and analyze social media platforms on behalf of clients.

Huey is a new media pioneer, who launched the New Media department at the Beggars Group (XL Recordings, 4AD, Matador Records, Rough Trade) in 1997, licensed the Group’s groundbreaking digital catalog, and set the Group’s strategic direction. Toolshed music and media clients include the Beggars Group, Merge Records, Righteous Babe Records, and Touch and Go.

Huey consults Swedish music service Spotify, and was part of the team responsible for the acquisition of independent label and artist catalogs for the recent launch of the service in the United States.

He is a founding new media committee member for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), a board member representing Matador Records at Soundexchange, and a board member at CASH Music, which builds open source music technology for artists.  Toolshed had early advisory board relationships with Tunecore, RoyaltyShare, Sir Groovy, and Loudfeed.

Tapio Korjus of Rockadillo Records has been in the music business for forty years. He started out in artist management and the live sector, and later went into records and publishing. Rockadillo Records is one of Finland’s best-established and most globally recognized independent labels, specialising in electronica, world music, jazz, experimental and progressive. He has been heavily involved with music at Finnish and European level; he was one of the founders of the Finnish Music Export Office, a board member of The Network Europe and a board member of the European Live Music Forum. Tapio is currently the Chairman of Finnish indie labels association Indieco and has been an IMPALA Board member since 2009.

Cai Leitner has occupied various positions in the music sector, including Head of A&R and International at EMI Music Denmark, MD at Sonet Records Denmark, VD at Mega Records, and MD at Bonnier Music Norway and Denmark. He currently is co-owner of Cosmos Music Group Scandinavia.

Francesca Trainini has been the Managing Director of music publishing firm Fairwood Music (Italia) srl for over 10 years, and is experienced in the role of regional coordinator of the Fairwood Music Network of Music Publishers. Before moving to Fairwood Music, Francesca worked as a copyright assistant at Virgin Music followed by copyright manager at Chrysalis Music, and subsequently as a general manager at Deejay’s Gang srl. Francesca has a Ph.D. in languages and a BS.C. in Social Sciences.