Gennaro Castaldo is Head of Press & PR for HMV & Fopp stores, having joined the business in 1985.  The role has a broad remit, covering consumer and corporate media relations, brand development and customer engagement instore and online.

Eamonn is Contributing Editor (Digital) at Music Week. He has been writing about digital music for a variety of publications since 2002. He is also a contributor to The Word magazine. 

Founder of Xfm and pioneer of indie/alternative music radio, and one of the pioneers of dance music radio, in the UK.  He is also responsible for discovering and establishing the careers of many radio and TV personalities including Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.  Sammy is a co-founder and Managing Director of DX Media – a music and media company which owns and operates NME Radio under licence from IPC.

Neil joined Channel 4 in 1998 to produce the launch of T4 C4’s flagship youth and music zone. Working on the weekly production for three years, he oversaw the growth of T4 into Saturdays, holiday mornings and a daily stint on E4. In 2001 he moved into commissioning as Assistant Editor in T4, Youth and Music. Since then he has worked his way up through the commissioning ranks and in 2004 he became a Commissioning Editor looking after shows such as Shipwrecked, Popworld & T4 On The Beach.
In recognition of the Channel's ongoing commitment to music programming and an increase in its music output, Neil became Head of Music in late 2007 with his role being expanded in December 2008 to become Head of Music & T4. Neil and his team are now responsible for Channel 4's extensive music output, including, E4 Music and managing the editorial for the 4Music Channel and T4. Current projects alongside the 4Music Channel include: Orange unsignedAct, Shipwrecked, 4Music Presents and Shockwaves Album Chart Show.

Chalky’s was established on September 1st 1987. I started in the music industry at the age of 16 (1981) shortly after leaving school by working in an awesome local record shop called Music Market. Music Market was a fantastic company to work for & the bosses were fantastic people to work with. In 1987 Chalky’s doors opened on the same day Sony released Michael Jackson’s “Bad” album, not a bad start in my eyes. The company is now in its 22nd year.

Since joining SJM Concerts in 1993 from rivals MCP he has worked with an array of UK and US talent with a particular focus on rock , indie and dance artistes. Co promoter of Oasis in the UK he helped stage the seminal Knebworth concerts in 1996. Other major artistes he has played a part in live success in UK include Foo Fighters - the Wembley shows last year being most recent , Green Day , Chemical Brothers , Morrissey , Stereophonics, Primal Scream and Coldplay. He was responsible for launching the groundbreaking Gigsandtours.com one of the UK's most used portals for concert information and ticket sales.

Following stints as MD of Virgin, Warner Bros, RCA and Telstar plus President of BMG UK , I'm now Chairman of U-MYX Ltd http://www.u-myx.com
In addition I have directorships with BBH(the leading Ad Agency) and JML, a consultancy that has clients including Condenast, Moet Hennessey and Berry Bros and Rudd.
I've also recently acted for private equity houses on the acquisition of Publishing catalogues.

After 20 years at EMI in a variety of roles, most recently Head of National Promotions & Regional Artist Development, Phil Armorgie now runs business development for Music 4 Studio’s, an audio post production facility based on Berners Street specialising in 5.1 and stereo mixing, sound to picture, sound design, voice recording, ISDN links etc.