Nicole Kelly
Managing Director & Interactive Developer

It was a quirk of historical timing that Nicole headed to Music City and started at Vanderbilt University in 1992 when there was hardly an Internet to speak of. There she took her left brain tendencies and molded them into a degree in Mechanical Engineering - "for the sake of a challenge". After four years on the dean's list, she graduated in 1996. The world had completely changed. The dot com boom was roaring and Nicole didn't think twice about abandoning thermodynamics and vibrations for the new and exciting online interactive world of databases and design.

Website development satisfies Nicole in two ways: she loves to create something that's both functional and eye catching - beautiful but with a purpose. Since her introduction to the Web, she has participated in site development in virtually every industry and scope, working with the likes of FOX, WebMD, AEGON, and Columbia/HCA as well as several successful startups. With 10 years experience in web design and development, there's no industry left untouched in her portfolio of internet sites. From healthcare to finance, music to broadcast entertainment, Nicole has experience in branding and identity, graphic design, database development, flash design and most every kind of front-end programming.

In her latest endeavors, she is happy to see that design is merging with technology and her technical background can finally find its creative purpose. Nicole is on board with the industry trend toward open source development and aspires to create websites that are driven by content management systems, empowering the business owners to have control over their sites.

In her downtime, Nicole enjoys playing "assistant recording engineer" for her musician husband in their recording studio - The Hideaway - and watching their little boys pick up that creative talent.

John Kelly
Recording Engineer & Creative Director

John brings the right brain, creative side to the table in this Kelly venture. With his background in music technology and his ad agency beginnings with Gish Sherwood & Friends, John is well versed in the needs of the singer-songwriter and has opened up the doors for them in the realm of EPKs, demos and an all around complete web presence and marketing strategy.

John has owned and operated Hideaway Recording Studio since 1999 and has been able to address the online needs of the musician in this "new music market", where the power is more in their hands than ever to extend their reach and make their mark with the internet as their vehicle.