Sameen Singh was named chief technique officer & chief digital officer at 88rising, reporting to CEO and founder Sean Miyashiro out of Los Angeles. Singh will lead international technique, negotiate partnerships, additional digital enterprise improvement and shepherd inorganic progress within the position. He can even lead the event and implementation of strategic initiatives and industrial innovation. Singh involves 88rising from Create Music Group, the place he served as chief technique officer for 2 years. He may be reached at sameen@88rising.com.
Capitol Music Group (CMG) has promoted six workers in its advertising and marketing departments. They are: Jessica Eason to vp of promoting for Capitol Records; Zoe Gillespie to vp of brand name partnerships and technique for CMG; Kate Haffenden to vp of worldwide advertising and marketing for CMG; Chris Kershaw to vp of promoting for Capitol Records; Byron Miller to vp of business advertising and marketing, streaming technique (city) for CMG; and Alex Williams to vp of gaming technique & enterprise improvement for CMG. Eason may be reached at jessica.eason@umusic.com, Gillespie may be reached at zoe.gillespie@umusic.com, Haffenden may be reached at kate.haffenden@umusic.com, Kershaw may be reached at chris.kershaw@umusic.com, Miller may be reached at byron.miller@umusic.com and Williams may be reached at alex.williams5@umusic.com.
Kurt Deutsch was named senior vp at Warner Music Entertainment & Theatrical Ventures, a newly created position. Deutsch will oversee the event of recent theatrical productions and investments whereas persevering with to be a connector with songwriters, artists and catalogs by way of collaborations with Warner Chappell Music and the assorted Warner Music Group (WMG) labels. He will proceed to work carefully with songwriters he has signed or re-signed to Warner Chappell, together with Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty, Joe Iconis, Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss, Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eddie Perfect and Shaina Taub. Deutsch, who has been with WMG since 2017, will proceed to be primarily based in New York and report back to Warner Music Entertainment (WME) president Charles Cohen. The theatrical music label he based, Sh-Ok-Boom/Ghostlight, will proceed as a part of WMG’s portfolio of labels.
Universal Music Group (UMG) employed Alvaro Galbete-Velilla as senior vp of recent enterprise, a brand new position that can see him develop alternatives within the Web3 and metaverse sectors in addition to different rising areas of digital improvement for the label. He joins the corporate from SoundCloud, the place he was director of enterprise improvement. UMG additionally promoted Kristen Bender to senior vp of digital innovation technique & enterprise improvement; she’s going to proceed to play an vital position in implementing digital enterprise partnerships with UMG working models and directing UMG’s engagement with entrepreneurs worldwide. Her earlier title was senior vp of enterprise improvement & technique. Both executives are primarily based in Los Angeles.
Rachel Chernoff was named senior vp of information science & analytics at Sony Music Entertainment (SME), a newly created position; she was beforehand senior vp of companion improvement on the firm. Based in New York, Chernoff will lead a newly shaped workforce that brings collectively the worldwide digital enterprise (GDB) group’s strategic analytics and knowledge science features to proceed rising SME’s knowledge capabilities throughout the globe. Chernoff will work in partnership with the SME companion improvement, international product and gross sales & analytics groups to boost and develop analytic- and science-based instruments, methods and experience supporting the wants of Sony Music’s labels and companies world wide. She can even lead the evolution of SME’s knowledge capabilities with exterior companions globally. She stories to Dennis Kooker, president of world digital enterprise at SME.
BMG appointed Pierrot Raschdorff as senior director of world range, fairness and inclusion out of Berlin. In the position, Raschdorff will probably be chargeable for growing and accelerating BMG’s international DE&I targets, working with worldwide groups throughout the corporate’s 12 core music markets. He joins from Penguin Random House — additionally a division of BMG’s father or mother firm Bertelsmann — in Germany.
Beau Benton was promoted to senior vp of media & operations at Republic Records. Benton, who will oversee operations for Republic in Los Angeles within the new position alongside co-president Wendy Goldstein, will proceed dealing with media technique and orchestrating campaigns for Republic artists. He can even function the liaison for inside Los Angeles workforce communication total.
Karl Skoog joined Amuse as CMO, tasking him with main the Swedish music firm’s advertising and marketing and communications groups with a deal with international progress. Skoog was beforehand CMO at each Fotografiska and NGO The Swedish Brain Foundation. He has additionally labored at Tele2 and EMI Music Publishing. Skoog may be reached at karl@amuse.io.
Range Media Partners employed Jared Cotter as vp of A&R and Federico Morris as director of A&R. Both will be a part of vp of A&R Sam Drake in supporting Range Music’s administration expertise, label three way partnership with Capitol Music Group/Virgin Music & Artist Label Services and Range Music Publishing. Colter arrives from his multi-faceted leisure firm The Heavy Group. He will proceed to handle Bazzi and co-manage purchasers Rose Betts, Ben Kessler, Boston & Pat, Veyah and Jay Sean with Jeremy Skaller whereas working to develop Range’s roster of artists on the label facet. Morris most not too long ago served as publishing A&R and supervisor at Electric Feel Entertainment. Cotter may be reached at jcotter@rangemp.com and Morris may be reached at fmorris@rangemp.com.
PPL named Titania Altius as head of member providers and Dan Millington as senior vp/head of consumer providers. Altius will oversee the supply of the member providers workforce’s operational exercise and construct and foster productive working relationships with PPL’s key stakeholders and trade companions world wide to develop the group’s neighboring rights collections and distribution service. Millington will lead PPL’s member relationship administration and recruitment to its worldwide collections service. Both Altius and Millington will report back to chief membership & folks officer Kate Reilly. Altius may be reached at titania.altius@ppluk.com and Millington may be reached at daniel.millington@ppluk.com.
Naomi Asher was named vp of songwriter providers and neighbouring rights at Sony Music Publishing UK. In her new position, Asher would be the go-to contact for SMP UK’s catalog songwriters and purchasers and will probably be tasked with increasing alternatives and driving success for his or her songs each regionally and internationally. She can even proceed overseeing the corporate’s neighbouring rights division. She will stay within the firm’s London workplace, reporting to SMP UK co-managing administrators David Ventura and Tim Major.
Rhea Ghosh was promoted to chief advertising and marketing officer at copyright safety service Cosynd, the place she’s going to lead all advertising and marketing and communications initiatives and shopper model technique. She can even head up Cosynd’s advocacy efforts with its companion community, which incorporates CD Baby, A2IM, the Mechanical Licensing Collective, Repost by SoundCloud, Symphonic Distribution, E bookBaby, DiscMakers, AdRev, Soundrop and BeatStars. She joined the corporate in 2020. Ghosh may be reached at rhea.ghosh@cosynd.com.
Artist supervisor Keith Hagan joined MNRK Music Group, bringing his purchasers The Afghan Whigs, Robert Finley, Cymande, Ondara, The Whitmore Sisters and The Mastersons to the corporate. Hagan will probably be primarily based in New York, reporting to MNRK president & CEO Chris Taylor. He most not too long ago based and led Skylark Artist Management. Hagan may be reached at khagan@mnrk.com.
Kate Loesch was named senior director of inventive at Kobalt. The Los Angeles-based government will signal artists and writers and with the worldwide inventive roster at Kobalt. She arrives on the firm from Capitol Records, the place she served as director of A&R.
CAA promoted Kate Arenson and Ron Jordan to brokers within the music touring division. Jordan will proceed working with ARDN, Jean Deaux and tobi lou, amongst others. (by way of THR)
Glenn Briffa was named CFO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, efficient instantly; he’s served as interim CFO since July. His duties embrace overseeing the group’s monetary, info expertise and workplace administration features.
Arno Van Berkel was appointed managing director at Fruits Music, a music and tech firm specializing in music playlist promotion. He began his new position on Jan. 23. Van Berkel — who joins Fruits Music from Warner Chappell Music, Benelux, the place he served as managing director for 15 years — will probably be primarily based on the firm’s headquarters in Oosterhout, Netherlands and report back to Fruits Music founder & CEO Stef Van Vugt.
Centricity Music employed three new workers: Tyler Osswald as digital advertising and marketing supervisor, Sarah Shinn as advertising and marketing supervisor of radio and Camy McCardle as senior supervisor of finance/enterprise affairs.
Violinist/composer Curtis Stewart has been named inventive director on the American Composers Orchestra (ACO), efficient instantly. Stewart will overlap with outgoing inventive director Derek Bermel, who’s concluding his 10-year tenure however will stay on ACO’s board of administrators. In the place, Stewart will probably be tasked with conceiving, curating, deciding on and programming ACO performances, readings, recordings and different packages. He can be chargeable for creating programming that expresses the ACO imaginative and prescient, growing and sustaining relationships with particular person and institutional inventive companions and setting the inventive technique for the group in partnership with ACO president Melissa Ngan. He will moreover work with ACO director of artist fairness Garrett McQueen to supply inventive oversight to the group’s EarShot composer development initiatives. Stewart may be reached at curtis@americancomposers.org.
Full Coverage Communications named Melissa O’Toole as director and Avery Robinson as senior publicist in Los Angeles. O’Toole has labored at corporations together with 42West, Scoop Marketing and ID PR together with a number of expertise businesses and report labels. Robinson joins from BECK Media & Marketing. The firm additionally introduced the signing of a number of new purchasers, together with Adam Lambert, Alicia Keys, Kid Harpoon, The Kid LAROI, Little large Town, Michael Buble, Ozuna and TXT.
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