Life and career

Lynch was born in Oshawa, Ontario to an Irish mother and a Canadian father. He spent much of his time growing up between Canada and Ireland. He began his career at 18 as the world's youngest major market imaging producer at CKQB & produced many syndicated album premiers including The Strokes

The Strokes

The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....

, Is This It & U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind. Lynch then went on to launch CIKR which was the most successful station launch in radio history. As a rock station it launched at No. 1 in its first ratings period and stayed in that position for the rest of Lynch's tenure.
At 23 Lynch moved to the UK to produce a network of 48 radio stations for GWR Group. From the pop network Lynch moved to a national audience as Creative Director for Virgin Radio

Virgin Radio

Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...

 & produced network broadcasts for artists such as U2, The Killers, Gorrilaz & The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

. Virgin Radio

Virgin Radio

Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...

 became Absolute Radio and Lynch rebranded the network which included the launch of 3 new London stations Absolute 80s, 90s & 00s & wide spread industry accolades and awards. Since 2003, Lynch has worked with Leigh Matty (Hobsons/Just Voices) as an 'American' voice-over

Voice-over

Voice-over is a production technique where a voice which is not part of the narrative is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations...

 on adverts & viral campaigns for Budweiser, Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

, Five USA, Becks & various movie trailers.
Producer of the Matt Berry

Matt Berry

Matthew Charles "Matt" Berry is an English actor, writer, comedian and musician. Berry is perhaps best known for his appearances in The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The Mighty Boosh; he also had his own series, Snuff Box...

 Show and Gorillaz On The Road, a series documenting life on the road for Gorillaz

Gorillaz

Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...

 hosted by Gorillaz Musical Director Mike Smith. Lynch now lives in Los Angeles and works with Spotify

Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish-founded, UK-headquartered DRM-based music streaming service offering streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had...

, EMI, One Golden Square, Absolute, Procter & Gamble.

External links

• http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk