Iron Mountain Entertainment Services to Present Panel Discussion Session as Part of AES Show Spring 2021
AES Show Spring 2021 will open its virtual doors May 25 – 28, and Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) is serving as one of the convention’s Platinum Partners. IMES will be contributing to the program with an informative panel, “Nurturing the Next Generation of Archivist Talent.” The session will include four members of the IMES team – Bethany Boarts, Imaging Project Manager at the IMES Boyers digital studio; Jen Greenwood, IMES UK Music Account Manager; Tom Holderness, IMES Junior Audio Engineer; and Alex Tomlin, IMES Senior Manager of Engineering for Western Europe – co-presenting “interview-style,” discussing their pathway, chosen field, and what future media archivists should do to prepare for the future of the discipline – all centered around the idea of stressing the importance of safely archiving our cultural heritage assets through music. The session will stream live at AESEurope.com on Friday, May 28, at 11am CEST / 10am GMT / 5am EDT and will be open to all virtual attendees of the convention. The session will last 60 minutes and will subsequently be available for post-event viewing on the dedicated AES Show Spring 2021 On Demand portal. Visit https://sched.co/jJKt for more information on the event, and visit IMES’s Platinum Partner page at https://www.aeseurope.com/partners/iron-mountain-entertainment-services/.
More info on the panelists:
Bethany Boarts
Bethany Boarts is the Imaging Project Manager at IMES’s digital studio, based in Boyers, PA (USA) since 2004. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photojournalism from The Pennsylvania State University in 2001. After college, she worked for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, winning awards in Sports and Editorial Journalism, before joining the Iron Mountain Entertainment Services family. Bethany founded the Imaging Department for IMES – designing workflows, improving techniques, and crafting standard operating procedures in use today. She was recognized as Mountaineer of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and she prides herself on her communication skills and pronounced attention to detail. When she isn’t in the studio, she continues pursuing her art and photography by managing a successful photography business.
Jen Greenwood
Jen Greenwood joined IMES as UK Music Account Manager in October 2020, after 20 years in A&R and artist management. Starting her career in music at the legendary Barfly venue in Camden Town as a Live Music Content Producer – recording live shows for webcast – she moved into A&R and Management at Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment, working on the Idol franchises in Europe and the USA, with artists including Kelly Clarkson, Will Young and members of the Spice Girls, as well as various other songwriters and producers. Deciding to specialize in producer and songwriter management, Jen went onto 140dB to work with clients including Flood and Gil Norton on recording projects including PJ Harvey, Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Charli XCX and The Killers. Jen then set up her own writer/producer management company – successfully placing original compositions for TV advertising campaigns with global brands including Nike, Dick’s, Xbox and Apple and managing Ivor Novello Award-winning songwriter Steve Booker. Most recently at Disney Music Group, Jen was A&R Director for EMEA, working across Walt Disney franchises, TV, film and artist projects, including Frozen, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney Channel series, New Hope Club and Demi Lovato.
Tom Holderness
Tom Holderness is the Junior Audio Engineer at IMES, currently based at the Feltham studios, where he handles the digitization of legacy audio recordings. He recently graduated from SAE Institute Oxford back 2019 with a First Class BSc in Audio Production, where he worked with BBC Introducing artists Stone Cold Fiction, as well as recent Metal Hammer-featured band After Smoke Clears. Since university, Tom has also spent time assisting Air Studios and Shepperton Studios.
Alex Tomlin
Alex Tomlin leads the Engineering team and studio technology client solution development for IMES Western Europe. He is a client-focused manager, technologist, media engineer and archivist qualified in music technology with 20 years of experience in the entertainment business servicing the creative industries, particularly the music industry. Alex started working in the recording studio system in late 1990s in Manchester, England. He worked with Zomba Records archives at Inflight Studios in London, leading to global digitization projects with Sony Music, WMG, UMG and BMG. After Inflight was acquired by Bonded Services, he built the UK digital studios in the vaults.
About Iron Mountain Entertainment Services
Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES), the media and entertainment division of Iron Mountain Incorporated®, is the go-to physical and digital media archiving service for the media and entertainment industries. IMES partners with clients ranging from the broadcast, film, music and sports sectors to brand archives and individual artists' collections and estates, to protect and activate media archives to preserve our collective cultural heritage. A global leader in media preservation, restoration and archive management, IMES offers industry-leading archive, storage, chain-of-custody processes and physical and digital content preservation solutions to ensure the complete protection of some of the world’s most treasured and iconic assets. Visit https://www.imes.media for more information.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 225,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 90 million square feet across more than 1,480 facilities in over 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of valued assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include information management, digital transformation, secure storage, secure destruction, as well as data centers, cloud services and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps customers lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a digital way of working. Visit http://www.ironmountain.com for more information.
Posted: Monday, May 24, 2021
