Paul Brindley is the co-founder and CEO of Music Ally. Music Ally is a knowledge and skills company, publishing its well-respected reports since 2002. Music Ally provides training and education services to the global music industry and organises events such as the music and tech event Music Ally NEXT (17th June) and Music Ally Connect (22-23 Jan 2026), and supports music and tech startups through its Music Ally SI:X initiative.
Paul has a background as a musician, having played bass guitar with The Sundays, a band who sold over two million albums worldwide. Paul also worked briefly in the private office of Rt Hon Tony Blair MP before the 1997 General Election and at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank where he wrote New Musical Entrepreneurs, an early report into the impact of new technologies on the UK music industry.
