Friday 8 November 2013

The Revolving Door

Agent Francesco Caccamo has joined Primary Talent from Echo Location Talent Agency.

Watford Colosseum has appointed Tim Brinkman as it's new Director, succeeding interim Director Elizabeth Jones.

Gareth Paul Jones has confirmed that he will leave Apple where he was a Product Manager, and join Twitter, tweeting “I’ll be working on Platform Partnerships – specifically advertising focused".

The Ticket Factory has appointed three new e-commerce and ticketing experts to assist with its move towards the entertainment and online retail sector. Rob Williams has joined as operations director, having previously worked at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena and Dixons Retail Group. Client services director Kelly Whitehead has extensive senior level experience in ticketing with Avalon, lastminute.com, AEG Live and Mean Fiddler.  Finally, Gail Webb joins as consumer sales and marketing director, having held the role of head of digital for the NEC Group. The three will work with MD Stuart Cain to develop The Ticket Factory's online marketing and e-commerce capability.

Beats Electronics has appointed Matthew Costello as its new COO. He was previously Head Of Group Strategic Development for IKEA

Lady Gaga has parted company with her long time manager Troy Carter, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Warners have made two new appointments: Dirk Ewald becomes SVP of Global Catalogue Management;  and in New York former Nokia man Jonathan Dworkin has been appointed SVP for Digital Strategy & Business Development; Meanwhile, Warner Music's European VP of digital strategy and business development, Leanne Sharman, is to depart the major.

Ticketmaster has appointed Nick Griffiths, previously with SkyIQ, as Sales Operations Director; Tommy Tyekiff from Ingenious Media, will become VP for Business Transformation at the start of next year; and Nihal Pekbeken is joining the ticketing firm from NBC Universal, and will become VP Global Marketing and Creative Services. Internally, current Marketing Director Dan Pearce will be promoted to the role of VP Marketing & Business Development for Ticketmaster's ticket resale business; Andrew Parsons, currently VP Sales, will become VP Music & Comedy; and Doug Smith, VP Client Services, will expand his remit taking on responsibility for the operations team within the business.


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