Frank Kühl works as head of finance at AnnenMayKantereit GmbH and is master of coins for the artistic music producers Peter Jem Seifert and Dave Anderson. As the former owner of Smarten-Up Musikverlag, shareholder in a record company and employee of Irrsinn Management, the music manager has hardly missed a beat in the music business. He is a lecturer in music and media law at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. Frank Kühl has been an honorary member of the regional group of the Association of Independent Music Entrepreneurs West (VUT West) for many years. He has been Chairman of the NRW Music Industry Promotion Association since 2021 and was involved in the founding of the PopBoard NRW.