About this session
If your music belongs in a campaign or a game, these are the people to meet.
Who you will meet
Toby is an award-winning music supervisor and managing director at Leland. His music career began in 2007 at London electronic label Defected Records, before joining Leland in 2013 to curate and craft music for advertising, film and TV, covering sourcing, rights clearance, composition and strategic direction. Highlights include Andrex’s ‘Get Comfortable’ series, Center Parcs’ ‘For the centre of your world’, CeraVe’s Super Bowl campaign and Disney’s ‘The Boy & The Octopus’. His film and television credits include Top Boy (Netflix) and John Galliano: High & Low.
Jake Buckley is Head of Music at Wieden+Kennedy, where he oversees music search, licensing, composition and strategy for global clients including Nike, McDonald’s and Ford. With over a decade’s experience in music supervision and a Masters in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, he is forever curious about music as a means of communication, and brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work.
Originally from Italy, Len has lived in four different countries and has been based in London for the past 11 years. He is a Music Producer at MassiveMusic, where he handles sonic branding and campaigns and advertising projects. Len believes music is a direct route to people’s hearts, and feels it’s his mission to help people who love it as much as he does get a job in the industry.
Dominic began working in the industry in 2003 as in-house music supervisor at Saatchi & Saatchi, before joining Huge Music (WCRS’s in-house music department) in 2007. In 2010 he started his own company, Ark Music, running it until 2015 when he became Executive Creative Director at Cord Worldwide. In 2019 he left to join Sophie Urquhart at Tin Drum Music, where he has since worked on high-profile campaigns covering music sourcing, licensing, composition, sonic branding and brand partnerships.
Sam MacNamara is Head of Production at Wake The Town, one of Europe’s leading independent music supervision and composition companies. After beginning his career in Creative Sync at EMI Music in 2012, he spent six years at Felt Music, helping develop its music supervision and bespoke composition offering, contributing to campaigns including Sport England’s This Girl Can. Since joining Wake The Town in 2019, he has overseen original composition and music supervision across global campaigns for IKEA, John Lewis, Lexus, Toyota and Uber, with work recognised at Cannes Lions, D&AD and the British Arrows.
Seb Whyte is an award-recognised Music Supervisor and Executive Creative Director at Curation Music, with a career spanning global brand campaigns, film trailers and longform productions for platforms including Netflix, Amazon and the BBC.
Sascha spent two decades in bands, touring the UK and Europe with a record deal and a number 9 single, before pivoting into music for picture. After repping directors for music video, he joined 2110 Music as a producer/supervisor before rising to co-MD at Adelphoi Music, supervising campaigns for Nike, Volvo, Amazon and Audi. In 2019 he co-founded DLMDD, a specialist audio branding agency, landing Singapore Airlines, Amazon and Cadbury in its first year and building sonic identities for Direct Line, Tetley and Fortnum & Mason. Ad credits include Guinness, Google, Mini and Xbox.
Luke Barham has worked for the past ten years as a music supervisor at Twenty Below Music. Prior to this he spent years in TV production and at record labels before becoming a supervisor for trailers and eventually advertising. He has worked on campaigns for films that went on to win Oscars and Golden Globes, short films and, more recently, brands including Volkswagen, Disney+, Heinz, EA Games and Amazon.
Rosie is a Music Supervisor based in London, part of the team at Media Arts Lab working across Apple’s global advertising campaigns. Her role spans track sourcing and licensing, composer collaboration, and developing artist and brand partnerships across international markets including Saudi Arabia, Australia, Europe, Turkey and India. Prior to Media Arts Lab, she worked as a Music Supervisor at Create Advertising Group, overseeing music for film and streaming trailers for studios including Netflix, Disney and Paramount.
Sam is a Music Supervisor at London-based Mr Pape. A trained pianist and trumpet player, he brings a strong ear and a practical, creative approach to every project, having worked with brands like Nike, Zara, Adidas, Jo Malone and Under Armour. Alongside his supervision work, Sam has also been developing as a composer, scoring his first two short films this year.
Ayla is Managing Director of leading music entertainment company 45RPM and a multi-award-winning Music Supervisor for Advertising and Branded Entertainment. She is former VP of European Sync at Warner Chappell Music and ex Head of Music/Co-Founder at Black Sheep Music, the music division of BBH. Over 25 years, Ayla has worked across hundreds of sync projects for brands including British Airways, Johnnie Walker, Google and Audi, and co-supervised the BAFTA-winning short film Home. She has signed talent including Academy Award-winning composer Daniel Blumberg, and is currently Music Supervisor on David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at London’s Lightroom.
Sergio’s background in music and sync spans over 27 years, having worked on high-profile video games and advertising campaigns at PlayStation and Activision Blizzard, Nimrod Productions, Big Sync Music and Ninja Tune. His credits include Gran Turismo, SingStar, Little Big Planet, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty, alongside campaigns for Axe, Apple, Prada and Fiat. Sergio is Founder and Music Supervisor at Synchronicity Music, working on unannounced video games and trailers, and is fractional COO for Zen Music Group. He regularly lectures at BIMM and ICMP and mentors the new wave of Music Supervisors.
Award winning Music Supervisor and Audio Designer for games and moving media for over 12 years, working on the likes of CONTROL, Alan Wake, The Plucky Squire, Evil West and the upcoming Clutch. Currently leading audio at Flix Interactive, producing music and audio for exciting AAA and indie titles, a real advocate and champion for innovative and dynamic uses of music in games.
Irma de Wind is a London-based Music Supervisor and founder of De Wind Music. Following her experience as an in-house Music Supervisor at Frontier Developments (F1 Manager, Planet Zoo, Planet Coaster 2), she established her own consultancy, working with studios including Sumo Digital and on games such as MAVRIX by Matt Jones. Her work combines creative music curation and supervision with licensing, clearances and rights management across games, film and TV. Her most recent music supervision work is on WARDOGS.