Post by Jai Guru Deva on Mar 10, 2007 0:55:38 GMT -5
Here is Ruth and Angie's business, "McCartney Multimedia"...
www.mccartney.com/
Ruth's husband Martin Nethercutt joined youtube February 13, 2006. Check out his videos...
www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheJungle
Bio's for Angie, Ruth and her husband Martin (taken from their website).
____________________________________________________
Ruth McCartney
Digital Diva
CEO and Founder
ruth@mccartney.com
History
Personal website
www.mccartney.com/ruth/
Ruth McCartney is CEO of McCartney Multimedia Inc.
Ruth is a respected music industry veteran, communications expert and strategist with a strong marketing, cross-promotions, and entrepreneurial background. She has provided consulting and production services for Fortune 100, corporate, high-tech, higher ed. and entertainment companies.
As co-founder of McCartney Multimedia, Inc, Ruth has developed working relationships with significant organizations around the world including The United States Navy, Capitol Records, Texas Instruments, The State of Nevada, MGM/Mirage/Mandalay, Park Place Entertainment, Sony Home Entertainment, American Express Travel, Warner Bros and China Netcom. Her work has ranged from new media strategies and technology consulting to development of database management solutions and affinity marketing programs. In addition, Ruth has also served as advisor to projects for non-profit and higher education organizations including the original web presence for the Duchess of York's Chances for Children, WheelsForHumanity.org, Jesse Biel�s Make The Difference Network, The Feminist Majority and Loyola Marymount University.
Founded in 1995 in Nashville, TN, MMI is a Digital Agency which has designed custom Flash, HTML , eCRM and e-commerce presences for clients such as Clint Black, Richie Sambora, David Cassidy, Paula Abdul, America, Andrew Gold, Steve Tyrell, Oleta Adams, REO Speedwagon, Jessica Biel and others.
An early developer of rich-media communications, the NetSpot� is one of the products of Ruth�s imagination. The NetSpot is a streaming, TV-like commercial delivered straight to a recipient�s email in box and can be personalized, linked to e-commerce locations, tracked, reported and forwarded.
In addition, Ruth's brainchild is the online Customer / Fan acquisition and retention, tool iFanz® iFanz.com® technology provides online data management, eCRM, email broadcasting, tracking, data collection and privacy compliance to both MMI clients and others including the Arizona Diamondbacks owner Dale Jensen�s group of companies, The Estate of Tupac Shakur , John Cleese, Sailing legend Dennis Conner, Author Ted Dekker, Indiana Pacers' Asst. Coach Cedric Hardman, Edgar Winter, Texas Instruments' DLP Division and more.
Educated in England at West Kirby County Grammar for Girls, the North West Stage School and the Royal Ballet, being trained in the theatre, Ruth saw a need to combine communication and entertainment. In her formative years in Liverpool, UK, she assisted at home in sorting, filing and replying to fan correspondence addressed to her step-brother Sir Paul, as well as helping her mother Angie create The Wings Fun Club in 1972. She devised �iFanz.com�, a sophisticated data management, PHP platform and reporting software which allows users to manage their customer or fan base directly online.
Formerly, Ruth was a singer/songwriter and recording artist on BMG/Jupiter Records and has headlined tours in Russia, Lithuania, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Siberia for a total of 9 times. The tours sold millions of tickets and Ruth donated all of her proceeds to aid the 40,000 Armenian Earthquake victims left homeless by their devastating quake in 1989. As a songwriter, Ruth penned a gold single for Randy Crawford and has songs in several movies starring Julia Roberts, Faye Dunaway, Christina Applegate, Jonathan Schaech and Molly Ringwald.
Ruth has a long-standing commitment to charitable, philanthropic, and international associations. She has served on boards and been active in organizations including: KidsCharities.org, Feed The Children, Wheels for Humanity and Angels in Earth. She is the recipient of Russia's top honor as Woman of the Year which was presented to her at a ceremony on March 6 - International Women's Day at the Duma Parliament House in Moscow.
Ruth is an accomplished cook, speaks fluent Bavarian, a hobby songwriter, Ruth is 45 and lives at the beach in LA with her husband Martin Nethercutt and their 4 orange cats Yahoo, Google, Thelma and Louise.
____________________________________________________
Angie McCartney
Controller and Founder
angie@mccartney.com
Ext. 225
Born on Merseyside in 1929, Angie grew up in Liverpool during World War II, when much of her schooling took place in air raid shelters. Her actual schooling hours were restricted due to the constant bombing of the City.
Due to a diligent Mother, who insisted on reading, crossword puzzles, spelling bees etc. with her sisters, she developed a tendency for writing. Also, due to her parents’ backgrounds (Mother was a choral society singer, father a professional accompanist in the British Army), she was steeped in a love of music and theatre.
An early job was as a Box office clerk at The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, where she worked in May 1945, when Victory in Europe was proclaimed. Noel Coward was appearing at the theatre, and dispatched Angie with a letter to her mother and a large white five pound note, requesting that she be allowed to return to the theatre for a big celebration after the show.
Her foray into secretarial and administrative work began at a very early age when she worked at a commercial company in Liverpool called Litlewoods. They selected her for commercial training, where she soon became adept at shorthand, typing, book-keeping, filing, and the many mundane skills which girls were encouraged to embrace.
Angie was married to the late Jim McCartney, father of Sir Paul from 1964 until he passed away in 1976. She began the early Wings Fun Club for Paul, until the volume became so great, it had to be handed over to a team in London. This was at a time when Jim’s health was deteriorating, and Angie needed to take care of him.
Following Jim's death in 1976, Ruth and Angie moved to London in search of employment which led to a variety of interesting jobs including a stint at a nightly live TV show in London and for MPC Communications, where the principal, Michael P. Cohen managed a variety of prominent BBC radio and TV personalities.
She and daughter Ruth decided to try Australia in the eighties, where they consulted to the Elvis Presley traveling museum from Nashville, a truly interesting experience! They ultimately wound their way to California, where Angie worked for RKO Pictures Home Video, Omni Magazine, Starlight Foundation, Hollywood Online and subsequently, McCartney Multimedia.
When Ruth landed a recording contract in Germany in the early nineties, Angie took on the mantle of “roadie/Mum”, travelling with her all over Europe, and making several trips to Russia and Siberia, where she experienced first hand the wonders of a Cyrillic keyboard!
A couple of subsequent visits to Australia have extended her experience of commerce in that country, as well as making lots of friends.
She returned to California from Germany to work for USA TODAY, until the 1994 Northrdge quake encouraged her to relocate, when she moved to Nashville for 3 years, working in the Sales Department of The Tennessean newspaper. Eventually, she returned to Los Angeles, taking up a position with Hollywood Online (now Hollywood.com). As McCartney Multimedia began to grow, she joined them to take care of administrative and financial matters. (“Better than working for a living” she is oft heard to say.) Her interests are music, theatre, movies, and she is a great advocate of laughter!
On the musical front, Angie qualified as a piano teacher shortly before her 14th birthday, with the London Victoria College of Music, but concluded that she did not really have the dedication and patience it needs to be a teacher. She realized she was cut out to be a secretarial body – or as they were called in the United States – stenographers. This has led her to a tremendous variety of locations and skills, a decision which she has never regretted
____________________________________________________
Martin Nethercutt
President and Co-Founder
McCartney.com and iFanz
martin@mccartney.com
Ext. 222
Personal website
www.nethercutt.net/
Born in Kassel, Germany in 1961, Martin grew up in a bilingual household, his father being an American Army Sergeant and his mother Renate a German homemaker.
In 1970 Martin entered the Albert Schweitzer Schule (College) from which he graduated in 1981, majoring in English and Political Science. He then moved on to take up classes in an Economic School from which he graduated in 1983, majoring in Business English and Social Economics.
He moved to Munich, Bavaria, and worked as a Forwarding Agent and in 1989 received his European Customs Broker license.
Martin worked as an import-export consultant at Munich Airport for 2 years, during which time he began becoming more involved in his passion - music. He quickly became a much sought after commercial singer and composer in the European Music Industry, and lent his voice to blockbusters such as Fletch, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. Working with Grammy winner and ueber-producer Harold Faltermeyer, Martin's distinctive voice became recognizable as the sound of Burger King, Lufthansa and BMW. After conquering the commercial market, Martin felt compelled to give the American music industry a try.
He met his wife, British born Ruth McCartney, in Munich in 1991, and together they discovered the U.S. by spending 3 weeks in Los Angeles on vacation. After immigrating in 1992, Martin worked at first for the Euro-Television Network RTL's Los Angeles office. He also continued writing and recording music, jingles and station IDs for the European radio and TV markets, where he is still the voice of over 40 radio stations' jingle IDs.
After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, Ruth and Martin moved to Nashville, TN to write for one of the fastest growing music publishing markets. During their 3 years in Nashville, Ruth and Martin founded McCartney Multimedia, Inc. creating and publishing websites, first for themselves and subsequently for artists and small businesses.
In 1997 they again relocated to Playa Del Rey, CA where MMI is now headquartered at the beach.
McCartney Multimedia, Inc., whose clients include such diverse clients as the US Navy, Mattel. Inc, Lexus, Chevrolet, MGM Mirage Mandalay, and Mr. John Cleese, is a privately held California Corporation.
Currently, Martin is producing a short form, Hi-Definition video webisodic series entitled "The Jungle", as well as being partners in an historic music preservation project "iConz of Rock" featuring restored interviews and content from the likes of Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana and David Gilmour with more to follow in late 2006 and 2007.
www.mccartney.com/
Ruth's husband Martin Nethercutt joined youtube February 13, 2006. Check out his videos...
www.youtube.com/profile?user=TheJungle
Bio's for Angie, Ruth and her husband Martin (taken from their website).
____________________________________________________
Ruth McCartney
Digital Diva
CEO and Founder
ruth@mccartney.com
History
Personal website
www.mccartney.com/ruth/
Ruth McCartney is CEO of McCartney Multimedia Inc.
Ruth is a respected music industry veteran, communications expert and strategist with a strong marketing, cross-promotions, and entrepreneurial background. She has provided consulting and production services for Fortune 100, corporate, high-tech, higher ed. and entertainment companies.
As co-founder of McCartney Multimedia, Inc, Ruth has developed working relationships with significant organizations around the world including The United States Navy, Capitol Records, Texas Instruments, The State of Nevada, MGM/Mirage/Mandalay, Park Place Entertainment, Sony Home Entertainment, American Express Travel, Warner Bros and China Netcom. Her work has ranged from new media strategies and technology consulting to development of database management solutions and affinity marketing programs. In addition, Ruth has also served as advisor to projects for non-profit and higher education organizations including the original web presence for the Duchess of York's Chances for Children, WheelsForHumanity.org, Jesse Biel�s Make The Difference Network, The Feminist Majority and Loyola Marymount University.
Founded in 1995 in Nashville, TN, MMI is a Digital Agency which has designed custom Flash, HTML , eCRM and e-commerce presences for clients such as Clint Black, Richie Sambora, David Cassidy, Paula Abdul, America, Andrew Gold, Steve Tyrell, Oleta Adams, REO Speedwagon, Jessica Biel and others.
An early developer of rich-media communications, the NetSpot� is one of the products of Ruth�s imagination. The NetSpot is a streaming, TV-like commercial delivered straight to a recipient�s email in box and can be personalized, linked to e-commerce locations, tracked, reported and forwarded.
In addition, Ruth's brainchild is the online Customer / Fan acquisition and retention, tool iFanz® iFanz.com® technology provides online data management, eCRM, email broadcasting, tracking, data collection and privacy compliance to both MMI clients and others including the Arizona Diamondbacks owner Dale Jensen�s group of companies, The Estate of Tupac Shakur , John Cleese, Sailing legend Dennis Conner, Author Ted Dekker, Indiana Pacers' Asst. Coach Cedric Hardman, Edgar Winter, Texas Instruments' DLP Division and more.
Educated in England at West Kirby County Grammar for Girls, the North West Stage School and the Royal Ballet, being trained in the theatre, Ruth saw a need to combine communication and entertainment. In her formative years in Liverpool, UK, she assisted at home in sorting, filing and replying to fan correspondence addressed to her step-brother Sir Paul, as well as helping her mother Angie create The Wings Fun Club in 1972. She devised �iFanz.com�, a sophisticated data management, PHP platform and reporting software which allows users to manage their customer or fan base directly online.
Formerly, Ruth was a singer/songwriter and recording artist on BMG/Jupiter Records and has headlined tours in Russia, Lithuania, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Siberia for a total of 9 times. The tours sold millions of tickets and Ruth donated all of her proceeds to aid the 40,000 Armenian Earthquake victims left homeless by their devastating quake in 1989. As a songwriter, Ruth penned a gold single for Randy Crawford and has songs in several movies starring Julia Roberts, Faye Dunaway, Christina Applegate, Jonathan Schaech and Molly Ringwald.
Ruth has a long-standing commitment to charitable, philanthropic, and international associations. She has served on boards and been active in organizations including: KidsCharities.org, Feed The Children, Wheels for Humanity and Angels in Earth. She is the recipient of Russia's top honor as Woman of the Year which was presented to her at a ceremony on March 6 - International Women's Day at the Duma Parliament House in Moscow.
Ruth is an accomplished cook, speaks fluent Bavarian, a hobby songwriter, Ruth is 45 and lives at the beach in LA with her husband Martin Nethercutt and their 4 orange cats Yahoo, Google, Thelma and Louise.
____________________________________________________
Angie McCartney
Controller and Founder
angie@mccartney.com
Ext. 225
Born on Merseyside in 1929, Angie grew up in Liverpool during World War II, when much of her schooling took place in air raid shelters. Her actual schooling hours were restricted due to the constant bombing of the City.
Due to a diligent Mother, who insisted on reading, crossword puzzles, spelling bees etc. with her sisters, she developed a tendency for writing. Also, due to her parents’ backgrounds (Mother was a choral society singer, father a professional accompanist in the British Army), she was steeped in a love of music and theatre.
An early job was as a Box office clerk at The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, where she worked in May 1945, when Victory in Europe was proclaimed. Noel Coward was appearing at the theatre, and dispatched Angie with a letter to her mother and a large white five pound note, requesting that she be allowed to return to the theatre for a big celebration after the show.
Her foray into secretarial and administrative work began at a very early age when she worked at a commercial company in Liverpool called Litlewoods. They selected her for commercial training, where she soon became adept at shorthand, typing, book-keeping, filing, and the many mundane skills which girls were encouraged to embrace.
Angie was married to the late Jim McCartney, father of Sir Paul from 1964 until he passed away in 1976. She began the early Wings Fun Club for Paul, until the volume became so great, it had to be handed over to a team in London. This was at a time when Jim’s health was deteriorating, and Angie needed to take care of him.
Following Jim's death in 1976, Ruth and Angie moved to London in search of employment which led to a variety of interesting jobs including a stint at a nightly live TV show in London and for MPC Communications, where the principal, Michael P. Cohen managed a variety of prominent BBC radio and TV personalities.
She and daughter Ruth decided to try Australia in the eighties, where they consulted to the Elvis Presley traveling museum from Nashville, a truly interesting experience! They ultimately wound their way to California, where Angie worked for RKO Pictures Home Video, Omni Magazine, Starlight Foundation, Hollywood Online and subsequently, McCartney Multimedia.
When Ruth landed a recording contract in Germany in the early nineties, Angie took on the mantle of “roadie/Mum”, travelling with her all over Europe, and making several trips to Russia and Siberia, where she experienced first hand the wonders of a Cyrillic keyboard!
A couple of subsequent visits to Australia have extended her experience of commerce in that country, as well as making lots of friends.
She returned to California from Germany to work for USA TODAY, until the 1994 Northrdge quake encouraged her to relocate, when she moved to Nashville for 3 years, working in the Sales Department of The Tennessean newspaper. Eventually, she returned to Los Angeles, taking up a position with Hollywood Online (now Hollywood.com). As McCartney Multimedia began to grow, she joined them to take care of administrative and financial matters. (“Better than working for a living” she is oft heard to say.) Her interests are music, theatre, movies, and she is a great advocate of laughter!
On the musical front, Angie qualified as a piano teacher shortly before her 14th birthday, with the London Victoria College of Music, but concluded that she did not really have the dedication and patience it needs to be a teacher. She realized she was cut out to be a secretarial body – or as they were called in the United States – stenographers. This has led her to a tremendous variety of locations and skills, a decision which she has never regretted
____________________________________________________
Martin Nethercutt
President and Co-Founder
McCartney.com and iFanz
martin@mccartney.com
Ext. 222
Personal website
www.nethercutt.net/
Born in Kassel, Germany in 1961, Martin grew up in a bilingual household, his father being an American Army Sergeant and his mother Renate a German homemaker.
In 1970 Martin entered the Albert Schweitzer Schule (College) from which he graduated in 1981, majoring in English and Political Science. He then moved on to take up classes in an Economic School from which he graduated in 1983, majoring in Business English and Social Economics.
He moved to Munich, Bavaria, and worked as a Forwarding Agent and in 1989 received his European Customs Broker license.
Martin worked as an import-export consultant at Munich Airport for 2 years, during which time he began becoming more involved in his passion - music. He quickly became a much sought after commercial singer and composer in the European Music Industry, and lent his voice to blockbusters such as Fletch, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop. Working with Grammy winner and ueber-producer Harold Faltermeyer, Martin's distinctive voice became recognizable as the sound of Burger King, Lufthansa and BMW. After conquering the commercial market, Martin felt compelled to give the American music industry a try.
He met his wife, British born Ruth McCartney, in Munich in 1991, and together they discovered the U.S. by spending 3 weeks in Los Angeles on vacation. After immigrating in 1992, Martin worked at first for the Euro-Television Network RTL's Los Angeles office. He also continued writing and recording music, jingles and station IDs for the European radio and TV markets, where he is still the voice of over 40 radio stations' jingle IDs.
After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, Ruth and Martin moved to Nashville, TN to write for one of the fastest growing music publishing markets. During their 3 years in Nashville, Ruth and Martin founded McCartney Multimedia, Inc. creating and publishing websites, first for themselves and subsequently for artists and small businesses.
In 1997 they again relocated to Playa Del Rey, CA where MMI is now headquartered at the beach.
McCartney Multimedia, Inc., whose clients include such diverse clients as the US Navy, Mattel. Inc, Lexus, Chevrolet, MGM Mirage Mandalay, and Mr. John Cleese, is a privately held California Corporation.
Currently, Martin is producing a short form, Hi-Definition video webisodic series entitled "The Jungle", as well as being partners in an historic music preservation project "iConz of Rock" featuring restored interviews and content from the likes of Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana and David Gilmour with more to follow in late 2006 and 2007.