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Toby Andrews is a British record executive and former publicist, recently recognised by Forbes in their annual 30 Under 30 Awards for Media & Marketing. Toby is currently General Manager, International Marketing for Sony Music Entertainment based in London and is most known for his work with Kygo, Martin Garrix and was the previous manager of Bob Moses.

Early Career
Toby started work in 2008 at Get In PR, an international publicity company which specialised in electronic dance music. His early work included clients such as Marcel Woods, Chris Lake and Armin Van Buuren. In 2012 he began work as the international publicist for Tomorrowland, the globally famous Belgian dance festival. Toby remained at Get In PR until January 2014 where he oversaw the campaigns for [{Tomorrowworld]], Avicii, Martin Solveig including his hit single Hello & Ready 2 Go and Afrojack.

Sony Music Career
Toby began work at Sony Music Entertainment in February 2014, as Senior Manager, International Electronic Music Marketing. His first artist was new signing Kygo, with Toby working with him from the release of Firestone onwards. In December 2015, Kygo became the fastest artist in history to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify. Together they continued together to work on the release of both Kygo's album Cloud Nine as well as Kids In Love, including the release of Kygo's biggest single It Ain't Me with Selena Gomez. It Ain't Me also went on to win the Los40 Music Award 2017 for Best Music Video, the video was originally commissioned by Toby.

In June 2016, Martin Garrix signed to Sony. Toby was involved in the release of his popular singles In The Name of Love with Bebe Rexha, Scared to Be Lonely with British female singer Dua Lipa and There For You together with Australian singer Troye Sivan.