She lives in a vibrant downtown Ottawa neighbourhood with her son Oliver and daughter Toby.

Jack Ross, has devoted his professional life to being an artist advocate and leads the United Talent Agency team in Canada. UTA represents some of the biggest touring attractions in music including Guns & Roses, Muse, Toby Keith, Mariah Carey and many more. Jack personally represents Canadian superstars, Paul Brandt, Metric, Sam Roberts Band, Bruce Cockburn and oversees an office of twenty plus people in Toronto. Jack serves on the board of CARAS, Musicounts and Polaris Prize.

To say Jeff Leake knows music is an understatement. He has interviewed the biggest names in entertainment over his 20 years in radio. Leake, made a true impact in the Canadian Music industry when he signed on to launch the Canadian indie music channel The Verge for then XM Satellite Radio. His day-to-day is spent directing Canadian Music programming on SiriusXM, providing exposure to today’s most influential and independent Canadian bands to a North American audience. Leake is also venerable personality when it comes to his many hosting and industry jury panel duties. While attending over 150 live shows per year, Leake has hosted live broadcast recordings, awards shows and has sat on his share of panels across the country. Leake’s weekly podcast “The Leake in Review” available on iTunes, has become one of the most listened to music podcasts in Canada.

Vice President, Music Canada

Amy is Executive Vice President at Music Canada, a non-profit trade organization that represents the major record companies in Canada. Amy plays a key role in the development and implementation of Music Canada’s government and stakeholder relations portfolio and communications strategies.

Amy has led the organization’s research activities since 2010 which have included the publication of BC’s Music Sector – From Adversity to Opportunity, The Mastering of a Music City – Key Elements, Effective Strategies and Why It’s Worth Pursuing, Live Music Measures Up – An Economic Impact Analysis of Live Music in Ontario, The Next Big Bang – A New Direction for Music in Canada, Accelerating Toronto’s Music Industry Growth – Leveraging Best Practices from Austin Texas, Fertile Ground – Alberta Music Cities Initiative and Economic Impact Analysis of the Sound Recording Industry in Canada.

Amy has been instrumental in Music Canada’s efforts to unite a broad coalition of industry members in a bid to promote live performance, music tourism and Toronto as a music city. She is passionate about the development of music cities, and is an authority on best practices and key learnings, many of which are featured in The Mastering of a Music City report. She regularly works with cities and regions in Canada and abroad to help them chart a course toward developing a music strategy.

Amy serves on several Boards of Directors and Committees including Music Canada Live, the Unison Benevolent Fund, the OMDC Music Industry Advisory Committee, BC Music Fund Advisory Committee and the Ontario Live Music Working Group.

Prior to joining Music Canada, Amy worked with the Chamber of Commerce network in Ontario, most recently as Vice President Communications & Marketing at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Amy began her career in broadcast journalism where she worked for almost nine years. She is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts Honours, Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston and lives on a farm outside of Toronto with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Vincent  Degiorgio  is the president of The Board of Directors of the Canadian Music Publishers Association. He is also CEO of Cymba  Music Publishing, a

division of Chapter  2 Productions Inc, which Vincent founded in 1991. Vincent brings a wealth of experience from all facets of the industry, including being a  former VP International A&R at RCA Records, having signed N Sync.

His company, Cymba, is an acronym for ‘Crushing Your Music Business Apathy”, It has become one of the most pro-active, creative music publishing entities in Canada. With unprecedented global reach and a focus on the international market for recorded music and synch, it is home for writers Davor Vulama (Hedley), Aileen de la Cruz (Hipjoint’s “Let’s Go”), Ari Rhodes (Bryan Finlay, Lexi Strate) Ian Smith, Olivia Wik and multiple award winner, Dennis Ellsworth. Songs by the Cymba team have been in over a dozen languages.

Aside  being  president of the company, Vincent is also a multimillion

selling  song  writer,  who’s  most  recent  work with Dutch pop star Caro

Emerald recently eclipsed the two million album threshold. Caro’s sophmore effort, “The Shocking Miss Emerald” debuted at # 1 on the Music Week album chart, having been co-written by Vince in its enteriety.

He has proudly served on numerous boards including the SAC, is on the advisory board of MROC and the board of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Brian Hetherman 

Brian Hetherman began his career when he landed at one of Canada’s premier Indie record labels Duke Street Records. In the 90’s he moved to MCA Records, which would soon become Universal and worked his way up from Sales, to Radio Promo and Marketing. Brian became the youngest head of A&R for both MCA Records and MCA Music Publishing where he remained until 2001, and from there Brian was hired as the inaugural Executive Director of Radio Starmaker Fund, where he set up one of the largest Funding agencies in Canada.

In 2003 he pursued his dream of becoming and Artist Manager, Record label owner and Music Publisher with Curve Music and Cerberus Artist Mgmt, and in 2005 was tapped to become the President of the Music Managers Forum Canada, and soon was elected to the board of the International Music Managers Forum. In 2009 Brian was asked to join FACTOR as VP, Canada’s largest music funding agencies, after initially serving as a Board member for 5 years. In 2010 Brian became the acting General Manager of FACTOR, while the Board did an Executive search for a new President.

In 2011 Brian returned to one of his true passion’s which is his label and management company. In addition Brian has been an International consultant for Canadian Music Week, Chairman of the IMMF, Chairman of the CCMA Board and worked with Musicians Rights Org (MROC) as Chair of their Artist Advisory Board.

Brian is currently the Manager of Music Ontario, which is the largest Provincial Music Association in Canada and provides, Educational, Networking and Lobbying support to Musical Artists and Music Companies in Ontario.