Charlie Pinder - Music Business Tutor Following his studies at Manchester University Charlie went to work for RCA Records in the A&R department. He then joined Sony Publishing as A&R scout in 1993 and signed over the years, amongst others, Travis, Catatonia, KT Tunstall and Razorlight. In 2000 he was appointed MD. He joined V2 Records as Director of A&R in 2005 and left in 2007 to set up artist management/publishing company Riot Act. "After all these years of working within the political and commercial confines of big companies, I wanted to finally be in control of the whole process and the source of it all – the artists and their music”. Riot Act represents The Shebeats, Alex Cornish and Olafur Arnalds.
