Michael Krumper

Michael Krumper has held senior marketing positions at labels including Atlantic, Razor & Tie & the Mercury Label Group, and was GM of Artemis Records. At Gold Mountain, Krumper managed Robyn Hitchcock and Marshall Crenshaw.  At Atlantic, he handled A&R for Everything But The Girl, commissioning the #1 charting remix of “Missing” and subsequently re-signing the group, as well as bringing Matador (Pavement, Liz Phair) and Beggars Banquet (Peter Murphy, The Charlatans) to the label. At Artemis, Krumper handled A&R for Warren Zevon’s releases as well as a tribute to Zevon after his passing. Marketing campaigns he’s most proud of: Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach’s “Painted from Memory”, the sports marketing and direct response advertising that helped break the Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out”, and the many Lemonheads and Steve Earle releases he worked on.

Regina Joskow

Regina Joskow has over twenty years experience creating, managing and executing press campaigns for musicians, composers and authors. She has worked at various independent and major labels including Roadrunner, Atlantic, and the PolyGram Label Group and headed up publicity departments at London, Sire and the Verve Music Group. Some of the artists she has represented throughout her career include Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Linda Ronstadt, John Fogerty, Bob Mould, Jamie Cullum, Bob Geldof, Charlie Haden, Susanna Hoffs, Wayne Shorter, Bebl Gilberto, Everything but the Girl,  the Meat Puppets and Portishead. She has also publicized a number of book projects for houses such as Penguin, Rizzoli and Little, Brown.

John Hammond

John Hammond is a veteran marketing and digital strategist, who heads up these services for the agency.  He has spent twenty-plus years driving new business strategies for a series of entrepreneurial companies and artists, leading digital and marketing efforts for The Musebox, Sony BMG, Wind-up Records, TVT Records, and Rykodisc. While he did not invent the Internet, John pioneered such techniques as band widgets, social networking, user-generated content and direct-to-fan marketing.  Over the years, he has worked directly with artists from Morphine to Evanescence, David Bowie to The Dø, and he was psyched to get a shout-out in the recent Bob Mould autobiography for doing marketing plans with “pages and pages of detail, more than I ever saw from Virgin…”