Paul Brindley is the co-founder and CEO of Music Ally. He has a background as a musician, having played bass guitar with The Sundays, a band who sold over two million albums worldwide. Brindley 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, a report into the impact of new technologies on the UK music industry published in 2000.. After co-founding Music Ally in 2002, the company has gone on to become a leading digital music information, research, training and events provider.