Ayla is a multi-award-winning Music Supervisor for Advertising and Branded Entertainment. She is the former VP of European Sync at Warner Chappell Music and ex Head of Music/Co-Founder and Partner at Black Sheep Music, the music division within global advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH.) Ayla is also former Editor of themostradicalist.com, an emerging artist blog featuring daily reviews of the best in new music, and ex Vice President on the founding Senior Board of the UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors.

Originally hailing from Washington D.C., Ayla is a classically trained violinist who began her musical career back in the late 1990’s managing small London recording studios and independent record labels before breaking into music supervision for TV on Jonathan Ross’ BBC cultural documentary Japanorama and C4 daily breakfast show, RI:SE.

Over the past 25 years, Ayla has worked on both sides of the fence across hundreds of Sync projects, placing tracks, pitching artists & writers and supervising branded entertainment for iconic brands such as British Airways, Johnnie Walker, Absolut, Levis, Lynx, Google, Yves Saint Laurent, Virgin Media, Audi and many others. In addition to her commercial and broadcast work, Ayla has supervised music for several high-profile charity projects. She co-supervised the music for the BAFTA award-winning short film Home, a United Nations-backed project focusing on the tragic Syrian refugee crisis and supervised other charity campaigns including the Refuge-sponsored music video for UK artist Frances’ single ‘Grow’, which highlighted the devastating issue of domestic abuse.

More recently, Ayla was co-music supervisor on Vogue’s Inventing the Runway, the groundbreaking immersive exhibition at London’s Lightroom.