Monday, 9 September 2013

The Revolving Door

HMV has appointed a new marketing boss in the form of Patrizia Leighton, who previously worked for the Warner Home Entertainment Group and at the Virgin Megastores.

Syco Entertainment's Head Of Digital Theo Luke is moving to Twitter, where he will lead the social network's strategic advertising programme Amplify in the UK and EMEA.

Vevo has announced Jonathan Carson as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Based in New York, he will report directly to CEO Rio Caraeff. In this role, Carson will oversee all advertising sales and sponsorships.

Universal Music's international division has appointed Andrew Daw as its new Senior Vice President of Universal Strategic Marketing, which will see him manage the major's non-classical catalogue and audiovisual releases and catalogue licensing globally.

Simon Presswell has been appointed MD of Tickermaster's UK business.

Veteran manager Simon Napier-Bell and Dutch music entrepreneur Bjorn de Water have formed a new consultancy service called Snap-B Music.

BMI, the US collection society for the  music publishing sector has announced that its SVP Of Repertoire And Licensing, Michael O'Neill, will become the next CEO.

Bauer Media last week announced several appointments across its network of UK local radio stations. The main development is the renaming of Programme Controllers at local stations to Content Controller. Some Programme Controllers - Euan McMorrow (Radio Aire), John Harding (Viking FM), Chris Rick (Rock FM) and Keith Clarkson (Radio Borders) - will simply take on the new job title, while other people have been promoted into the role. That includes James Lett at Hallam FM in Sheffield, Nathan Thomson at Radio City in Liverpool, Mike Richardson at West FM in Ayrshire, Davey Walker at Clyde1 in Glasgow, and Mark Cliffe at Metro and TFM in the North East.

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