doug@iesmms.com
877.730.9660
Doug Ashland began his professional career in the music business at Millennium Music in Portland, Oregon. After transplanting to Seattle, Washington, in the late 1980’s Doug worked for a decade at Precision Sound Marketing as a salesman, buyer and warehouse manager for this large West Coast music distribution company. Doug handled labels such as Higher Octave, American Gramaphone, Telarc Records, Ryko Disc and Rounder Records to name a few. In the mid ’90s , Doug went to work for Heads Up International, and when the label was sold to Telarc in 2000, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Doug worked for Heads Up and Telarc for nine years representing artists such as Spyro Gyra, Yellowjackets, Najee, Walter Beasley, Marion Meadows, Miriam Makeba and a host of others before moving to IES.