26 Music Week 23.11.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL CUPPLES & VON SPEYR JOIN NEW-AGE PARLOPHONE LABEL GROUP
PARLOPHONE Parlophone Label Group, the ex-EMI- owned
collection of companies which will eventually be divested by Universal Music, has hired two new staff - AMANDA CUPPLES and CARLY VON SPEYR (nee Brewer). Former EMI Classics COO
Cupples will serve as operations director for Parlophone Label Group. She will support PLG on the sale process and other key operational issues. Von Speyr joins the PLG team
as senior communications manager from EMI Group, where she has worked for the past seven years across both Music and Publishing. She will lead corporate and internal communication across all of PLG’s territories and labels.
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PHOENIX MUSIC INTERNATIONAL FELIX HINES has been appointed as creative director at Phoenix Music International. Prior to this he
spent 15 years at independent publishing house Westbury Music where he rose to managing directorsigned artists such as British Sea Power, Guy Gerber, Harry J, and Fanfare Ciocarlia. John Carnell, CEO of PMI said:
“Felix brings unparalleled knowledge and experience of cutting edge music and genres to PMI where his role is to expand the exploitation opportunities of the company’s catalogues with a particular reference to our extensive reggae and electronic dance assets”.
SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT Company president TIM SCHAAFF will retire at the end of the year.
Schaaff joined Sony from Apple
in 2005, and went on to oversee the launch of the company’s Music Unlimited music service. Effective January 1, 2013,
group executive of Sony Corporation ANDREWHOUSE will assume responsibilities for Sony Network Entertainment International during the transition, in addition to his current role as president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. The existing SNEI executive staff will manage daily operations. Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO,
Sony Corporation said: “Tim has been a strong leader within Sony who truly embodied the 'One Sony' spirit by successfully leading corporate-wide initiatives across business units since he joined. I thank Tim for his passion and innumerable contributions to the company.”
FESTIVAL REPUBLIC The company has hired former promotions director for MAMA Group JON MCILDOWIE, who will replace Neil Pengelly as the music
booker for Reading & Leeds Festivals. McIldowie,
who joins the London-based team on a full-time basis, has worked across festivals including Lovebox and Wilderness, as well as co-founding The Great Escape festival and convention. McIldowie said: “After 12 incredible years with MAMA it’s time for a new challenge. I’ve grown up with Reading & Leeds and look forward to joining the team at Festival Republic to play a part in the next chapter of one of the world’s most important live music events.”
WIMP The music streaming service has hired local experienced music industry executives as it launches in Poland. ADRIAN CIEPICHAL, former
head of Digital at Universal Music
Polska has been drafted in as Polish general manager and KATARZYNA ROGALSKA, former editor and journalist at Agora, as editorial manager. They will work from the new WiMP office in Warsaw. Ciepichal previously worked at
Universal Music Polska since 2008 where he was responsible for the strategy for digital music distribution and management of the sales and business development departments. He was also involved in the creation of other digital music services in Poland. At her previous employer, Agora,
Rogalska served as editor of
Kinoplex.gazeta.pl and was a journalist at
Kultura.gazeta.pl and
gazeta.tv. She has also worked at
Infomuzyka.pl,
Tuba.pl, Hiro popculture magazine, as an events and gigs promoter at the Stodola Club in Warsaw, Radio Wawa and other local radio stations.
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MY BIG BREAK How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry… Will Ward A&R scout at Sony ATV publishing/EMI Publishing
“I’ve been into music my whole life, and grew a real passion for electronic music in my teens with artists such as J.U.S.T.I.C.E and Daft Punk. “After deciding that University wasn’t the
#56 Ben Turner, CEO, Graphite
Ben Turner is an authority in electronic music and spokesperson for the industry through his career history and now the IMS (Ibiza International Music Summit) – the event he co-founded with Pete Tong that brings together the world's leaders and thinkers in electronic music. Turner connects music with
brands as well, having worked with artists from Duran Duran to Fatboy Slim over the years and also put together Liam Gallagher's first-ever brand endorsement deal for Philips. Smirnoff have worked with Graphite for the last six years
resulting in Turner making Mark Ronson's dream come true of working with Duran Duran, and this year connecting David LaChapelle with the brand. Many brands come to
Graphite for music expertise, strong relationships with talent and ability to clear rights. Aside from that, Turner is the
go-to man for Rob da Bank or Richie Hawtin-related activity as their manager, and is also director of Bestival and Camp Bestival and director of the label Sunday Best Recordings. Plus, he’s co-founder and vice chair of the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF).
route for me, two months after I left college I met a friend of a friend, Daniel Tuffin (Jessie Ware’s manager), who knew I wanted to get into music and asked I was listening to at the time. Without hesitation I said Black Butter Records – where Tuffin happened to have a contact. “He sent me to meet Henry Village, Olly
Wood and Joe Goss over at BB where I interned doing admin/A&R jobs for seven months. The rise of Feel The Love (Rudimental feat. John Newman) was a tune I saw the whole way through. “I was then introduced to Daniel Lloyd-
Jones and Guy Moot at EMI Music Publishing where I was hired as a scout within three weeks. I joined EMI Publishing at a strange time, just as the merge with Sony ATV began, but I’ve had the time of my life so far.”
TOP TIP ‘Who you know to get you there and what you know to keep you there’ has been my motto so far.
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