Board

Alexis runs The Delphi Label www.delphilabel.com Dublin-based label and management for a small but slowly growing roster of artists with the same ethos which champions the artist/manager relationship as a partnership and collaboration and view all the tools and channels available in the online world as a huge opportunity.  Current artists are Deaf Joe and Sacred Animals.  Alexis got his start working in the industry in London, including at Stephen Budd Producer Management, Metropolis Studios and Music Week magazine, before joining Independent Sound Management (ISM) in London in 2003. Alexis was involved in the management of artists including Tunde (Lighthouse Family), Catherine Feeny and HAL, working on both Major and Independent album releases (Sony BMG, Rough Trade)

In 2006, Alexis was closely involved in securing Catherine Feeny’s publishing deal with Warner Chappell, establishing Tallgrass Records and releasing Catherine’s album ‘Hurricane Glass’ independently before the album was licensed on to EMI and re-released in 2007.  He has lived in Dublin since 2008.

Alan Hennessy (Marketing Officer)

As manager of The Kinetiks since their inception, Alan has lead the band to a Meteor Award nomination, regular national airplay, a recent U.S release for their records, track synchs on MTV and a number of festival slots. In addition to setting up Rapture Records in 2008, Alan works for Crashed Music/IML Irish Music Licensing, marketing artists such as Moya Brennan, Horslips, The Dubliners, Luke Kelly and many others while also spearheading the company’s growth in the digital sphere and acting as a consultant to sister company and physical distributor, All Media Entertainment. Alan started out working in HMV and has also worked with Hot Press in the past in a marketing role.

Jim Lawless (Events Officer)

Jim is manger of The Coronas. Having never thought of music management as a career Jim fell in to his position more than chose it. He grew up with three of the band members in school and when they left school was asked to manage the band, then called Corona. Jim worked with the band all through college part-time, more of a hobby than anything else. It wasn’t until the band got signed to 3ú Records in their final year of college that Jim started to think of artist management as a career. Jim studied Business Management with Economics and Finance in Dublin’s Institute of Technology and worked in the manufacturing and construction sector before going to into artist management full-time.

Simon Rudd (Treasurer)

Simon worked for years in marketing in the FMCG sector, developing and building brands, specialising in category management, strategic branding, brand awareness and development. In 2005 he co-founded SiAn Records and SiAn Management, and ran the artist management side of the business. In 2008 Simon joined forces with a French based entertainment production company and set up Missing Link Management and currently manages “Jaded Sun” and newly signed “Lancelot”.

Thomas Murphy (Training Officer)

Thomas, by day, lecturers in the Department of Transport Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology and always had an interest in music by night. He has set up Binary Records and music management as he now manages, two up and coming North county Dublin bands “Xenon Field” & “MGB”, who are now, beginning their long journals with the music industrial. His duties with MMF Ireland are to organize the MMF training days and liaise with Stuart Worthington of MMF Training who chairs the training days.