IAN HEATH

Connecting with Fans—Creating, Cultivating and Capitalizing on the most important of all relationships Ian Heath is a marketing manager at Sony Music Canada and runs the musician-focused website Intrsctn.com [music+interactivity]. The Intrsctn website endeavours to provide helpful, honest advice to independent musicians and bands seeking to promote themselves and their music more effectively using all the tools available in the modern online age. As a marketing manager, Ian is responsible for working closely with the Sony Music Canada A&R department to develop domestic acts (including illScarlett, The New Cities, Priestess and others); plus project-managing Canadian album releases by a roster of internationally signed artists including Kings Of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, Lamb Of God, Three Days Grace, Anti-Flag, Imogen Heap, Sean Kingston and others. In the past, Ian has also managed independent bands (The Wooden Sky, Arkata); worked for a few indie record labels (Teenage USA Recordings, Song Corp); produced, engineered and digitally edited (The Misfits, Michale Graves) and played guitar, bass, and drums in a few bands you have never heard of.