Thursday 29 August 2013

The Revolving Door

The Orchard has announced Jim Leavitt as its new Director Of Sync And Licensing, working out of the firm's New York office. Leavitt was previously Director Of Licensing And Royalties at VP Music Group.

Digital music seller 7digital yesterday announced the appointment of Gunnar Larsén, most recently with Dolby Laboratories, to the role of VP Product. He will be "responsible for defining and driving 7digital's expanding portfolio of music products across the B2B and B2C market".

Beggars Group's Head Of Marketing David Emery has announced that he will leave the company after eight years at the end of this week, and joining Kobalt Label Service as Director Of Marketing.

Kobalt has announced the promotion of its LA-based Exec VP Creative Sas Metcalfe to the new position of President Global Creative.

Former Ticketmaster Global President Nathan Hubbard has been appointed Head Of Commerce at Twitter. In a new role for the social media firm, Hubbard will be tasked will pursuing e-commerce opportunities for the micro-blogging platform.

Warner's music publishing business Warner/Chappell has made three digitally-focused appointments. New York-based Ann Sweeney has been named Executive VP for Digital Strategy & Policy and Stephen Dallas has been appointed VP Digital Legal Affairs & Business Development, charged with negotiating licensing agreements with digital service providers and investigating new digital business opportunities. Iain Morris has been promoted to the new role of Head Of Digital, Europe. Based in London, he will become the primary point of contact for digital licensees across the region, and will also lead Warner/Chappell's Pan-European Digital Licensing initiative.

Spotify has appointed Jorge Espinel, previously a digital strategy man at News Corp, to the role of Head Of Global Business Development, seemingly basically replacing Gerrit Meier, who departed the steaming firm nearly a year ago.



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