Denise Stiff is the owner of DS Management, a Nashville-based artist management company.  Her current clients include Alison Krauss and Union Station, Jedd Hughes and Dan Tyminski.  In addition to artist management, her credits include serving as the Executive Producer of Music for the award-winning film, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000).  She also produced the highly successful Down From the Mountain tour (2002), and was the Associate Producer on the “Down From the Mountain” album.  In 2004, she produced the Great High Mountain tour, which highlighted music from the movies “Cold Mountain” and “O Brother Where Art Thou?”  Ms. Stiff is a 1999 graduate of the Leadership Music program, and is a member of the Board of Governors for the Recording Academy’s Nashville chapter.  She holds a Masters of Education from the University of South.

For the past 20 years, The Castle has recorded projects of more than 300 Gold and Platinum artists from around the world. Nuyens also founded Castle Productions, Castle Publishing, Castle Recording Studios and Tower I & Tower II Publishing companies, a joint venture with Time-Warner's Warner-Chappell. During that time, he also formed NAPRS (National Association of Professional Recording Services) and served as its president, signing more than 95 professional companies as members in the first three years.

Professor Butler is an Entertainment Attorney and Coordinator of the Music Business Program at the University of Memphis. She received her Masters in Entertainment and Media Law from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California. Just prior to teaching, she practiced business and legal affairs for music and film companies such as Rhino Records, Pioneer Entertainment and MGM Music.  Her film contract and research work includes MGM blockbusters “Legally Blonde II”, “Barbershop”, "Walking Tall" and “Die Another Day”. Her art-direction and marketing credits include projects by CeCe Winans, Peter Frampton, Oleta Adams, Paul Williams, Kirk Whalum and the legendary Ray Charles.  Professor Butler is a long-time member of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment and a voting member of The Recording Academy. She joined the University of Memphis Faculty in Fall 2004 after spending the summer studying International Entertainment, Media and Sports Law at the famed Fitzwilliam University in Cambridge, England.