After reading music at Edinburgh University, Jo joined the record company Select Music – working as a label manager and then in international A&R for Naxos Records. He then went to Decca Records as an Executive Producer, for artists such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel and Albrecht Mayer – before moving across to the world of management at Askonas Holt in late 2009 as an Artist Manager. He is an Associate Director, and manages conductors such as Marin Alsop, Lidiya Yankovskaya, Michael Tilson Thomas, Emmanuel Villaume and Domingo Hindoyan.