Matt Michiels is a Senior Creative Director at peermusic Nashville. Michiels began his career working part-time for Gallimore Productions & Song Garden Publishing founded by Grammy winning producer Byron Gallimore. There he assisted in production coordination on albums by Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina. This led to an opportunity to join Warner/Chappell Nashville in 2004 as Production Manager where he handled all aspects of the catalog for the pub company’s writers and A&R staff. Over the next 13 and a half years his role expanded greatly to include song pitching, graphic design for marketing, pitching for film and television, and consulting for the development of Warner/Chappell’s global creative technology solutions. In February 2018, he joined peermusic as Sr. Creative Director for the Nashville roster of songwriters. He is a native of Meridian, Mississippi and holds a B.A. in Music from The University of Alabama.