Julie Adam was named government vp/basic supervisor at Common Music Canada, the place she is going to lead frontline operations, overseeing advertising, digital technique, business affairs and model partnership portfolios. Adam joins from Rogers Sports activities & Media, the place she was most not too long ago president of reports & leisure.
Alison Donald was promoted to move of world artistic at Kobalt, the place she shall be primarily based between London and Los Angeles. She beforehand oversaw A&R and inventive within the U.Okay. and Europe for Kobalt Music Publishing in addition to AWAL’s U.Okay. and Europe artistic staff previous to its sale.
Jennifer Blakeman joined Seeker Music as chief rights & royalties officer. She comes from boutique music writer one77 Music, the place she served as president/chief artistic officer. In her new function, she is going to lead and oversee the growth of Seeker’s rights administration, administration and royalty platforms. Blakeman could be reached at blakeman@seekermusic.com.
Michael Allen was named vp of selling technique at Republic Information, the place he’ll develop and execute campaigns for artists throughout pop and Okay-pop. The New York-based government joined Republic in 2020 as a digital advertising marketing consultant.
Gabe Fleet joined legislation agency Latham & Watkins as associate within the connectivity, privateness & info apply. Fleet, a distinguished music licensing lawyer, joins from iHeartMedia, the place he served as government vp of enterprise affairs and chief music licensing counsel. He anticipates being a part of Latham’s New York workplace upon admission to the New York Bar; he’s presently licensed to apply in Georgia and Alabama. He could be reached at Gabe.Fleet@lw.com.
Merlin introduced a number of promotions. They embody Ryan McWhinnie to vp of enterprise and authorized affairs, Shrina Patel to senior director of enterprise and authorized affairs, Chris Tarbet to senior director of economic partnerships, Chaida Kapfunde to senior director of enterprise and expertise options, Pavan Vasdev to director of technique & development, Quentin Martins to senior supervisor of economic partnerships and Grace Kinds to senior finance assistant.
Huge Machine Label Group promoted Courtney Daly, Bekah Digby and Marie Wapelhorst to director of streaming and Anna Scott Welch to supervisor of streaming. Sam Featherstone additionally joined the corporate as director of streaming; he was beforehand at Sony Music Leisure, the place he served as affiliate director of economic partnerships. Daly could be reached at courtney.daly@bmlg.web, Digby could be reached at bekah.digby@bmlg.web, Featherstone could be reached at sam.featherstone@bmlg.web, Wapelhorst could be reached at marie.wapelhorst@bmlg.web and Scott Welch could be reached at annascott.welch@bmlg.web.
Purple Road Information employed a number of new staff members, together with Brooklynn Gould-Bradbury as supervisor of publicity and communications, Dottie Chamberlain as government assistant/operations supervisor and Riley Cooper as digital advertising coordinator. Gould-Bradbury joins from CMT and could be reached at brooklynn.g@redstreetrecords.com. Chamberlain joins from Common Music Nashville, the place she served as government assistant to chairman/CEO Mike Dungan (for whom she labored for almost three a long time). She could be reached at Dottie.c@redstreetrecords.com. Cooper, who’s coming off internships with firms together with Candy Discuss Publicity and Triple 8 Administration, could be reached at riley.c@redstreetrecords.com.
Common Music Group senior vp of enterprise and authorized affairs Aaron Harrison was appointed to the SoundExchange board of administrators; he replaces Sony Music’s Jeff Walker. Harrison additionally serves on the SoundExchange licensing committee.
Hannah Babitt, CEO/founding father of Los Angeles-based boutique administration firm BABZ, introduced the opening of BABZ Nashville. Babitt will oversee BABZ in each Los Angeles and Nashville, with Jacklyn Figueiredo and Eden Lytle primarily based in Los Angeles.
Claudia Russo was named senior vp of company communications at UTA. She joins from Verizon Enterprise Markets, the place she served as head of communications. Starting within the function instantly, she is going to relocate to Los Angeles from New York this summer time.
Sweden-based label A-P Information rebranded to Overtone Studios and named producer/songwriter Rami Yacoub as director of music improvement, North America. Primarily based in Los Angeles, he’ll assist spearhead the corporate’s worldwide growth.
Adam Sachs was named senior vp of leisure, comedy and podcasts programming at SiriusXM. The manager first joined the satellite tv for pc broadcaster following its acquisition of Workforce Coco, the place he served as president.
First Artists Administration employed Zoe Hart as agent in its London workplace and promoted Hailey Flame to agent in Los Angeles. Hart, who joins from Faber Music, could be reached at ZHart@firstartistsmgmt.com. Flame could be reached at Hflame@firstartistsmgmt.com.
Nigel Elderton was named chairman at music expertise firm Audoo, which is targeted on bettering accuracy, transparency and reporting in public efficiency royalty knowledge assortment and fee distribution.
