About The Speaker
Paul Craig
Founder / Chair, Nostromo Management / Music Managers Forum
Paul is a highly successful, strategic and experienced British music executive and artist manager. He has been SVP, Artist Partnerships at Warner Music UK and General Manager of Atlantic Records UK.
Paul currently manages one of the UK’s most successful rock acts ‘Biffy Clyro’ who have just achieved their third Number 1 UK album and first Number 1 album in Germany. Throughout his career he has managed extremely successful acts including INXS, Kaiser Chiefs, Birdy and Bullet For My Valentine.
In 2014 Paul launched independent company Nostromo Management & Consultancy to focus on global artist management.
Paul speaks at numerous conferences internationally including the Dong Dong Conference in China.
In 2009 Paul was appointed SVP, Artist Partnerships for Warner Music UK where he oversaw the strategic development and implementation of all 360 (e-commerce, D2C, crm, ticketing, brand partnerships, merchandising, touring, new commercial opportunities) activities company-wide, alongside building an artist management company within Warners, ‘Nostromo Management’.
In 2007 Paul was appointed General Manager of Atlantic Records UK.
In 1999 Paul co-founded artist management company ‘SuperVision Management’, which went on to represent multi-million selling acts and won both Music Week and Music Managers Forum awards for ‘Manager of The Year’ in 2006.