Paul Scaife
Managing Director and Publisher
Not content with and often fretting about being an employee, Paul decided to try being an employer and take fretting to a whole new level. Over five years in, and despite excellent company growth and amazing feedback from subscribers, he still manages to find time to fret about something.

Nicola Slade
Editor
After spending almost ten years working on music consumer publications and as a business journalist on trade titles, Nicola decided she’d like nothing better than getting up at 5.45am to edit the music industry’s best news service. She is by far the least funny of the gang, but is more caffeine-fuelled and energetic than an hyena injected with pure Nescafe. She spends her spare time dreaming about line dancing with cowboys at rodeos.

James Foley
Music Editor
James 'Rock' Foley joined Record of the Day in 2005. As Music Editor he is now the most powerful man in the music industry, creating megastars and crushing dreams with his daily decisions. His first RotD pick was Langhorne Slim, his second was Antony & The Johnsons - but since then he has become comfortable with choosing just about any genre. Check out his electro-swing-jazz choice in April 2008 to see how far he has come.

James Barton
Commercial Director
I direct the commercials, obviously.

David Balfour
Contributing Editor
Having cut his teeth in the world of major label marketing when multi-million-selling album releases were still quite common, David made the unusual career move of deciding to become a journalist instead. He wrote for various music trade (and a few consumer) titles before becoming the original editor of RotD. He now works primarily in digital label management but still gets to air his opinions on the wider business as RotD’s contributing editor.

Joe Taylor
Music Consultant
Joe Taylor thought up the name "Record of the Day" and was its founding music editor, providing early support to the likes of Damien Rice, Keane and Crazy Frog. Nowadays he is focused on Field Recordings, a record label, and Nuxx, a management and publishing company, while continuing to seek out great music for Record of the Day as music consultant.