Neil Athale Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

I’m a versatile senior producer with extensive project and team management experience running multiple projects at any one time across award winning advertising for the biggest brands in the world. I have won D&AD, Clio, Kinsale, British Arrows & Eurobest awards for music supervision and production for my work on New York Times 'Life Needs Truth', Green & Blacks 'Wildly. Deliciously. Organic' and Formula E 'No Turning Back' campaigns.My responsibilities at Soundtree include: · Managing the entire music & sound post production requirements for global commercials for brands like Samsung, H&M, B&Q, Unilever, BA, etc. Work directly with clients, composers & sound designers to create and ensure the smooth running of the schedule often across 3 time zones simultaneously.· Collaborate with agency producers, creatives and directors to create music & sound briefs and set project goals and then collate and deliver feedback to the composers and sound team whilst also tracking all changes and edit versions.· Hire composers, musicians, orchestrators, mixers and studios and attend and ensure the smooth running of recording sessions in the studio. · Overseeing commercial music searches to brief and then engaging with record and publishing companies to obtain all costs and background information before presenting song options to client. Then negotiate and obtain clearance on chosen songs, before moving to contract stage.· Track all costs and expenditures and keep an accurate P&L statement up to date. · Handle and track all the final mix deliverables and credits for all the productions and ensure delivery of all required assets. Ensure completion of all musician contracts and release forms. Create and register Cue Sheets with PROs/publishers and oversee with legal team all the final publishing and master licenses. Manage PO requests and all invoice tracking.

London, United Kingdom

Work on feature films/TV/Ads through my independent music consultancy company, The Music Team. Overseeing the score and music supervision. Managing the entire music budget and delivering all music aspects from pre-production to dub mix. Working closely with music publishers/record labels/artists managers to negotiate fees and complete the music clearance on all source songs and licences.Recent Work: (Feature Films)Twist (Sky - 2021) ScoreStrange But True (CBS - 2019) Score & Music SupervisionGloves Off (KEW Media - 2018)Score & Music SupervisionGolden Years (Content Media - Out Aug 2016) Score & Music SupervisionNorth V South (Metrodome - Out Oct 2015) Score & Music SupervisionThe Rise (eOne) 2013 - Score & Music SupervisionAdvert:Budweiser US TV CampaignMcArthurGlen Global TV campaign TM LewinMicrosoft CortanaSamsung PhonesTVChannel 5 One Night With My Ex (S2 Title/Theme Music)MTV CatfishBBC The Voice

London, United Kingdom

Signed as a songwriter. Wrote with artists such as James Bay, Ella Eyre, Paloma Faith, Matt Cardle & Rudemental. Some of which went on to achieve over a Million record sales and several top 40 singles around the world.

London, United Kingdom

Classroom teacher delivering music and audio related OCN level 3 curriculum to 16-24 year olds.

London, United Kingdom

Performed live session guitar for UK number 1 artists Brian McFadden (Westlife), Delta Goodrem, Shane Ward & Gareth Gates. Took part in a number of high profile UK and European theatre & arena tours. Appeared on live DVD’s and performed live on numerous TV and radio shows including Radio 2 Breakfast Drive Time, Dermot O’Leary show and Top of The Pops.