Dick Huey founded social media grassroots marketing and digital consulting powerhouse Toolshed in 2001, and has orchestrated over 350 digital campaigns in his career for a who's who list of key artists and record labels.



A new media pioneer, Huey launched the New Media department at the Beggars Group in 1997, licensed the Group’s groundbreaking digital catalog, and set the Group’s strategic direction. Toolshed music and media clients include the Beggars Group, Merge Records, Righteous Babe Records, and Touch and Go.



Toolshed is a consultant to major media brands, most recently procuring independent label content on behalf of Spotify in the United States in advance of their 2011 US launch.



He is a founding new media committee member for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), a board member representing Matador Records at Soundexchange, and a board member at Cash Music.