Richard Kirstein
Managing Director, Leap Music Limited

Following a music degree at The City University/Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London), Richard performed and wrote for several UK bands during the late 80's / early 90's, with releases on various independent record labels. In 1992, Richard established Nim Nim Musik, a music production company targeting the advertising & TV markets.

In March 1994, he joined Zomba Music Publishers, establishing their Film, TV & Media division in London. Whilst at Zomba Richard managed all synch licensing/promotion and struck publishing administration deals with UK broadcasters and production companies e.g. Channel 4, September Films, TWI and Aardman Animations.

In April 2003, Richard left Zomba to establish Leap Music Ltd, a joint venture with advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), the UK's first music publisher inside an advertising agency. Since inception, Leap has expanded to four people (including A&R) with a client roster of 15 ad agencies in UK, Mainland Europe and USA. Leap-published titles have appeared in campaigns for Levis, Axe, Baileys, Audi, KFC & many more. Leap also carries out music searches (especially in the unsigned band market) and broker synch deals for its growing client roster. In May 2005, Leap Masters was launched as a subsidiary company to acquire copyright in sound recordings.

For further details click on http://www.leapmusic.com