BMS/Chace President and co-founder John Spencer has widespread experience
and visibility both in the music industry and in the fields of archival preservation
and enterprise class information technology. Since 1978, he has been involved in
many facets of high-technology professional audio and video, and was previously
Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Otari Corp.

John is CEO and ambassador at large for BMS/Chace, preaching the gospel of
structured metadata collection to media companies and institutions worldwide.
His efforts led to a 3-year partnership with the Library of Congress, strategically
focused on metadata best practices for the commercial recording industry.

Education:
Middle Tennessee State University
B.A Mass Communications with Honors, 1982

Professional Associations:
-The Recording Academy P&E Wing National Advisory Council and Nashville chapter Advisory Council
-AES (Audio Engineering Society) Studio Practices/ Production Technical Committee and the Digital Libraries Technical Committee
-AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) Digital Issues Committee
-ARSC (Association of Recorded Sound Collections) Technical Committee
-NRPB (National Recording Preservation Board) Digital Audio Preservation and Standards Task Force
-National Digital Stewardship Alliance (Library of Congress) charter member

BMS/Chace Vice-President and co-founder Marshall Morgan is a 25-year
music industry veteran with extensive experience as a recording engineer,
producer, studio owner, publisher, songwriter, and archivist. He has produced or
engineered records for a wide variety of recording artists, including ten Grammy
winning recordings. As a music publisher he owns copyrights representing over
30 million units of sales, and he has written songs for James Taylor, The Dixie
Chicks, Keith Urban, and Waylon Jennings. His recording studio, The Doghouse,
has hosted scores of major artists since 1987. He is expert in past and current
recording technologies.

Marshall oversees operations for all three BMS/Chace offices, including systems
processes, software development, client interaction, and sales and marketing.
He advises many label executives, producers, engineers, and artists seeking
archival and asset management solutions.

Education:
Vanderbilt University
B.A. English, Philosophy, 1973

Professional Associations:
-The Recording Academy P&E Wing voting member, co-author of the Recommendation for Delivery of Recorded Music Project
-American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) –writer, publisher
-Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) – writer, publisher
-The Country Music Association (CMA)
-The American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
-Leadership Music – alumnus

John Sarappo is a 20-year veteran of the pro audio industry. Previous
employment includes roles as Systems Engineer for Rockwell International, a
recording engineer for a Los Angeles based CCM label, Director of Customer
Services for Alesis Studio Electronics, and Product Specialist and Director of
Marketing for Otari Corporation. He is expert in relational database theory and
practice, and has been a Filemaker developer for over 15 years.

John is a founding member of BMS/Chace and wears many hats, his work
including process engineering, project management, and database development
and implementation. He functions as general manager, working closely with all
three BMS/Chace offices to ensure that systems are functioning and that internal
processes remain consistent and efficient.

Education:
Drexel University, Philadelphia PA
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1982

Trebas Institute of the Recording Arts, Los Angeles CA
Recording Certificate (2-year program), 1989

Professional Associations:
-Audio Engineering Society (AES)

Tom Endres is a twenty-year music industry veteran and an early adopter of
digital music technology in Nashville. A recording engineer and owner of a
commercial mixing and mastering facility, Endres was previoulsy President
of DAM, Inc. specializing in custom software for the audio industry and DAG
LLC providing digital audio data recovery services. With emphasis on open
source technologies (PostgreSQL, Apache, PHP, etc), his fields of expertise
include database design, dynamic web design and deployment, and code level
application development.

Tom is a founding member of BMS/Chace and is engaged in a variety of system
engineering and software design activities. He is responsible for the concept,
coding, and maintenance of BMS/Chace’s core internal software tools and he
serves as a primary investigator of emerging technologies applicable to BMS/
Chace.

Education:
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI
B.S. Telecommunications 1989

The Recording Workshop, Chillicothe, OH

Professional Associations:
-The Recording Academy P&E Wing co-author of the Recommendation for Delivery of Recorded Music Project (jointly released as an AES
Technical Council Document)

Deborah DeLoach is a 2005 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University
with a B.S. in Recording Industry Production Technology. She is a recording
engineer, a post-production engineer, and a recording artist.

Deborah is the senior archival engineer at BMS/Chace, and as such she
has become our go-to authority on data integrity, work-flow efficiency, and
evolution of internal systems and processes. Her work includes project and
client management in both New York and Nashville. As a liaison with label
A&R administrators she played a vital role in establishing the BMS/Chace New
York office before returning to Nashville headquarters. She has completed the
Verification, metadata generation, asset documentation, and archival migration
for over 250 albums to date.

Education
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN
B.S. Recording Industry Production Technology, 2005

Professional Associations:
-Audio Engineering Society (AES)

Austin Lauritsen is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a B.S.
in Recording Industry Production Technology. He is both a recording engineer
and a session musician in the Nashville area. His areas of expertise include
design, implementation and maintenance of network infrastructures for both
commercial and residential environments, hardware/software implementation
and maintenance on both Mac and Windows workstations and servers, user
interface design/development for web, and other forms of multi-media with focus
on standards based technologies.

Austin’s diverse talents keep him very busy at BMS/Chace, working in web
design and deployment, systems design, and network configuration as well as
asset Verification, analog/digital media migration, metadata generation, and
archive creation.

Education
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN
B.S. Recording Industry Production Technology, 2005

Professional Associations:
-Percussive Arts Society (PAS)
-Audio Engineering Society (AES)