Meet The IMA Team
Martin is proud to be one of the 73 million people who discovered The Beatles’ during the band’s first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, 1964. Finding new artists and new music remains a lifelong passion.
Among the many roles he plays on the Music Resource Group stage are: Director of The Independent Music Awards (IMA) and Publisher of The Musician’s Atlas. He leads the company’s sales, sponsorships and partnership efforts and is a frequent speaker at national music conferences. He graduated from Boston University’s School of Public Communication with a B.S. in public relations. Indeed! He left that industry many moons ago to help found Music Resource Group, parent company of The IMAs and The Atlas.
When not sporting a pair of headphones or getting as close to front and center in a concert hall or club as possible, you might catch him pursuing his other passions which include cooking, reading and spending quality time with his family & friends.
E-mail: Martin@IndependentMusicAwards.com
Jude is 1/2 of the celebrated husband & wife team of Folkman & Folkman, who in a former life as principals of the NYC PR/Marketing firm The KITA Group, helped Ban The Box to save the music industry & the planet from drowning in wasteful CD packages.
As Chief Strategy Officer & Director of Marketing, Jude wears many hats (and shoes) at Music Resource Group. An omnivore, Jude cooks and devours creatures great & small (with gusto – not pesto); is a sinophile, tree-hugging political junkie who reads anything she can, whenever she can.
Bereft of any musical talent, Jude may be the only one on the planet who has no shot at a musical career. However, she is often heard applauding from front row center.
E-mail: Jude@IndependentMusicAwards.com
Robert is the Senior Editor of The Musician’s Atlas & a coordinator for The Independent Music Awards. He has a BA in Music Education with a concentration in Percussion and over a decade of teaching and performance experience. He has proudly been a member of several independent bands which have garnered an impressive list of accomplishments, including an Independent Music Award for Best Pop Song.
His interests also apply to other dynamics of the music world including music technology, composition, journalism and pop musicology. No one around the office is safe from Robert’s pranks and bad jokes. In his free time, he enjoys being creative, spending time outside and hunting down the elusive Bigfoot.
E-mail: Robert@IndependentMusicAwards.com
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Lee is the Head of Licensing for the Independent Music Awards Publishing Group. She has a Bachelor of Science in Music Industry with a minor in Business from Drexel University in Philadelphia (her hometown). Prior to heading up the IMA Publishing group she headed Mad Dragon Publishing and her own company, Lee Music Publishing, that she established when she was only 21.
During her time away from the office, she runs a blog that’s dedicated to covering great music and film that’s generally overlooked by the mainstream media. Check it out – http://100-down.com. She also dabbles in singing and playing guitar, bass guitar and upright, piano, and trombone. She enjoys all genres of music that don’t scream at her but especially enjoys female singer songwriters, indie rock, beat driven electronica, and Mississippi blues.
E-mail: Lee@IndependentMusicAwards.com