26 MusicWeek 03.08.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL SECRETLY CANADIAN EXPANDS IN BRITAIN WITH NEW KEY HIRES
DEAD OCEANS / JAGJAGUWAR / SECRETLY CANADIAN
full-time as European Marketing and Product manager. The label group will further
Dead Oceans / Jagjaguwar / Secretly Canadian are expanding their global operations. HANNAH OVERTON (above, far
left), previously A&R director at XL Recordings, will oversee operations in UK and Europe as general manager. While leading the label group’s London office, she will also have a creative and A&R focus. LAURA SYKES joins (above, far
right) the UK team from Ninja Tune as head of European Sales and Digital Strategy. MIKE HOLDSWORTH (above, second from left) moves to become European Projects director, and TOM DAVIES (above, second from right) joins the team
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develop their New York office as JON COOMBS is promoted to associate director of A&R and MELANIE SHEEHAN joins as project manager from Sonic Boom Records in Seattle after working for several years as store manager/buyer. The New York and London
offices report to the label group’s home office in Bloomington, Indiana, headed by managing director Nick Blandford.
6MUSIC CAMILLA PIA has moved from BBC Radio 1 and joined 6Music as Music Team assistant producer.
VEVO
The managing director of Sales and Operations at
VEVO UK, JONATHAN LEWIS, has left the online music video company due to restructuring. Commercial director JONATHAN LEWEN has also departed. NIC JONES, VEVO’s SVP of
international, is now responsible for all operations in the UK alongside his current role. The UK office will now report into Jones. Jon Lewis joined VEVO in 2011,
following a 15-year stint at Channel Five, where he was most recently digital director. He ran digital media and commercial partnerships for both Channel 5 and Northern & Shell Group’s online assets OK!, Star, New and the Express Group Newspapers. Lewis also developed Channel Five’s video on-demand service. Before his tenure at Channel 5, the exec was sales manager at UK Gold. David Kohl, VEVO’s EVP, sales and customer operations, said: “I want to thank both Jon Lewis and Jon Lewen for their contributions to VEVO. As a result of their efforts, we are now in a strong position to take our brand
Former managing director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, JOHN WILLAN, has been appointed as visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University’s Lord Ashcroft International Business School. Professor Willan, who has joined
Anglia Ruskin for an initial period of three years, is a qualified chartered accountant. However, following a music degree from the University of Edinburgh and postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he joined EMI as a classical
marketing partnerships to the next level.”
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY record producer. He then became managing
director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra before moving to the BBC to build a music business for BBC Worldwide. He left in 2000 to join management agency Hazard Chase as chairman. For the past seven years he has been chairman of the International Artist Managers’ Association, the only worldwide association of classical music managements, and is also a governor of the Royal Academy of Music in London and chair of its audit committee.
JUICE FM MARK KAYE has joined the radio station in Liverpool as programme controller after covering previous programme controller Gillian Hall’s maternity leave. Elsewhere at the station,
breakfast duo ADAM & LEANNE have extended their contracts by a further two years.
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MY BIG BREAK How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry… MARCUS BARNES, Freelance Journalist,
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#40 Semtex Semtex Media / DJ / A&R, Def Jam
In his teens, Semtex DJ’d at house parties in Manchester and got a day job working at Eastern Bloc Records. He progressed onto DJ’ing in legendary clubs by night. Ten years later he played at
Glastonbury, headlined for Kanye West, and then moved into A&R, working with chart- topping acts such as Mr. Hudson. Semtex released popular mixtapes including The Piecekeepers and Grimewave. Promoted to A&R at Def Jam
UK several years ago, his first signing was Fatman Scoop,
whose debut single Be Faithful went to number No. 1 in several countries across Europe. As well as hosting his own
show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, Semtex travels the world as Dizzee Rascal’s only official DJ and his website
DJSemtex.com is the No.1 hip hop blog in the UK (as well as one of the Top 10 hip hop DJ blogs worldwide). His company, Semtex Media, consults to blue-chip
corporations, global brands and leading pop acts, and has marketed some of the world’s biggest-selling acts including Kanye West, Jay-Z and Rihanna.
TOP TIP There’s a lot to be said for being a genuinely nice person. If there’s one thing that will stand you in good stead, it’s being
down-to-earth and good-natured. People remember a ‘good egg’.
“When I was still in my third year at uni the then-art editor at FRONT magazine, Jamie Kneale, got me me work experience there. I ended up being handed an important interview - with the actor Mekhi Phifer - and got commissioned to write a big feature on UK street gangs. “Thanks to my hard work, the editor, Eoin McSorley, asked me to freelance for them full-time after uni. “Nine months later I got a job in Manchester as features editor for a monthly men’s mag published by the Daily Sport. “After three years there, I headed back
to London after Simon Rothstein – former online Showbiz editor at The Sun – offered me some shifts with them. “However, music has always been a huge passion of mine so, after several years working on the ‘showbiz’ side of things, I left it all behind earlier this year to go freelance full-time, covering the world of electronic music... a dream come true.”
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