Jonas Wikström was promoted to managing director of the Nordics at Common Music Publishing Scandinavia, succeeding Martin Ingeström, who will stay with the corporate as chairman of UMP Nordics till his retirement in June. Reporting to UMPG COO Marc Cimino, Wikström is answerable for UMPG’s inventive and enterprise operations within the Nordics; he was most just lately government vp of A&R/inventive.
Veronica Sanjines was named normal supervisor at Arista Information. The New York-based government will report back to Arista president/CEO David Massey as she oversees normal operations for the label and collaborates with your entire roster. She was most just lately vp of selling at Warner Information.
Arica Ng was named president of Asia Pacific at Warner Chappell Music. She joins the corporate from Meta, the place she served as head of music enterprise improvement within the Asia Pacific.
FUGA appointed Dorothée Imhoff as chief industrial officer, Liz Northeast as senior vp of EMEA and Sven Zeevalk as international head of operations. In the meantime, former chief industrial officer David Driessen will transfer to the brand new place as chief enterprise officer of FUGA’s guardian firm, Downtown Music, whereas Darren Owen has been promoted to COO at FUGA. Imhoff has been with FUGA since 2014 when he joined as a enterprise improvement advisor. Northeast, who was beforehand FUGA’s GM, U.Ok., might be answerable for the corporate’s industrial technique and enterprise throughout the wider U.Ok. and EMEA markets. Zeevalk, who was beforehand regional head of operations at FUGA, might be answerable for the corporate’s international operations, together with overseeing the regional heads of APAC, EMEA and Americas in addition to all shopper integrations and the worldwide help group. He’s been with FUGA since 2017 when he joined as content material supervisor. Erica De Marchi will tackle the function of regional head of operations following Zeevalk’s promotion.
John Coletta was promoted to senior vp & managing director of worldwide at BMI; he was beforehand vp of worldwide authorized & enterprise affairs. Based mostly in New York, Coletta will report back to BMI government vp of licensing & inventive Mike Steinberg whereas overseeing the corporate’s worldwide division, working intently with international performing rights societies to enhance enterprise practices and determine progress alternatives. He’ll moreover work to modernize BMI’s reciprocal agreements and oversee international copyright initiatives. He succeeds BMI vp of worldwide society relations Karen Buse within the function; Buse helped handle the worldwide group on a brief foundation.
Songwriter-producer Bloodpop based and launched sport improvement studio Genpop Interactive alongside former DeNA and BANDAI NAMCO government Aubrey Tennant; he’ll function CEO and sport director. The studio’s focus is on “constructing unique AAA video games that can drive ahead the next-gen of music, trend and gaming tradition,” with its first undertaking described as “an bold third individual shooter with novel motion and fight mechanics.” The corporate just lately raised $6.5 million in seed funding. In a press release, Bloodpop mentioned: “At a time when low danger tolerance amongst established studios has resulted in predictable re-releases capitalizing on millennial nostalgia, Gen-Z is keen for brand new IP that speaks to them, and has a protracted legacy that defines their technology. Main studios have turn out to be complacent, counting on giving the Weekend at Bernie’s therapy to their outdated IP with their publicly traded necromancy. We aren’t simply on a mission to create the following nice sport, however nurture the following technology of in style tradition.”
300 Leisure promoted three executives: Ryan MacTaggart to senior vp of artist improvement & life-style advertising and marketing, Gary “Bolo” Sargeant to vp of city & rhythm promotion and Michael McArthur to vp of A&R. MacTaggart will proceed to deal with immersive advertising and marketing and artist improvement, Sargeant will lead promotion on the city and rhythm codecs and McArthur will signal and develop new expertise. All three are based mostly in New York.
Shawna Spears was named vp of brand name advertising and marketing at Venice Music. Becoming a member of from TikTok, the place she led artist and supervisor partnerships in hip-hop and R&B, Spears will construct and lead the corporate’s model advertising and marketing group, develop and execute the advertising and marketing roadmap throughout distribution channels and extra. She reviews to Venice Music government vp and GM Fadia Kader and might be reached at shawna@venicemusic.co.
The American Affiliation of Unbiased Music (A2IM) promoted Evan Plake to director of partnerships and Chirag Patel to affiliate of membership. Moreover, Greyson Zeng was employed as group supervisor and Nicolle Gutierrez Ospina was employed as government assistant and accounts administrator. Plake oversees model partnerships and artistic collaborations throughout the group’s membership, Patel will proceed connecting and supporting indie labels and Zeng will assist develop and curate A2IM’s digital and in-person group. Gutierrez Ospina joins from Gold Enterprise Administration. Plake might be reached at evan@a2im.org, Patel might be reached at chirag@a2im.org, Zeng might be reached at greyson@a2im.org and Gutierrez Ospina might be reached at nicolle@a2im.org.
Michelle Teh was named senior vp of world classics & jazz at Common Music Group. She assumes the function after serving on UMG’s international priorities group.
Jesus Trivino is taking up an expanded function at TIDAL; he’ll proceed to guide the corporate’s Latin group however will now additionally function head of TIDAL’s trade relations (for normal market) group.
Vanessa Kanapin was named director of A&R for Germany, Switzerland and Austria at Extremely Worldwide Music Publishing. The Berlin-based government will report back to firm founder/CEO Patrick Moxey. She joins Extremely from German unbiased writer Budde Music, the place she was A&R and track plugging supervisor. Kanapin might be reached at vanessa.kanapin@ultrapublishing.com.
Former Virgin EMI Information senior director Tony Barnes was introduced because the co-founder of Karta, a metaverse studio established in 2021 that gives experiential advertising and marketing for musicians, manufacturers and sports activities groups. He co-founded the corporate with CEO Erik Londré. “Since its launch, Karta has delivered profitable initiatives throughout Roblox, Fortnite and Decentraland for the likes of Amazon Music, Fnatic, Unilever and Ronald McDonald Home,” reads a press launch, which notes the corporate additionally just lately constructed a fan hub on Roblox for Ok-pop group TWICE. Barnes might be reached at tony@karta.sport.
Jason Leiss was promoted to enterprise supervisor at FBMM, the place he’ll proceed to guide a group of 5 and oversee all monetary features for his shoppers in each enterprise and private finance.
