24 Music Week 12.07.13 PEOPLE PERSONNEL WMG MAKES SENIOR LEVEL PROMOTIONS WARNER & WARNER/CHAPPELL
previously president & CEO of WEA Corp., having joined in 1996. Seton is tasked with growing
Warner has named MIKE JBARA (above left) president ADA Worldwide, promoted ELIAH SETON (above right) to senior vice president, International Strategy & Operations for Warner Recorded Music whilst Warner/Chappell has seen JANE DYBALL, legal and business affairs international SVP, depart. Both Jbara and Seton have
been promoted into newly-created roles and will report to Stu Bergen - who was recently announced as president, International, Warner Recorded Music.
Jbara will be responsible for leading the growth of Alternative Distribution Alliance’s (ADA) services to independent labels and artists, expanding the company’s global footprint and nurturing its identity. He was
Warner Recorded Music’s global business and building new opportunities for its artists. His responsibilities include helping to accelerate the development of Warner Music's international operations, and collaborating with Bergen and Warner Music's affiliates to identify and execute strategic priorities, special projects and local investments. Seton was previously vice president, Office of the CEO at WMG. Most recently, he was involved in WMG's deal to acquire Parlophone Label Group (PLG) and the planning for PLG's integration with WMG. Dyball is leaving the publisher
after more than two decades, having joined in 1992. She was previously at Virgin Music for six years, joining as international co- ordinator and working her way up to international manager. In her recent role at Warner/Chappell Dyball oversaw the publisher’s business affairs throughout the
world, excluding the US and North America, and looked after business strategic issues covering areas such as collective rights management and digital rights. She also sits on the boards of the MCPS, PRS, MPA and the International Music Publishers Association.
INSANITY DEAN ONDRUS- COULSON has joined as senior talent manager to expand the music department that manages the likes of DJ Fresh, Shy FX, Sigma, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Dominique Young Unique, Jaguar Skills, MistaJam, Jo Whiley and
B.Traits. He previously worked at ROAR Global, co-managing N-Dubz. Clients he is bringing to the Insanity roster include singer/songwriter Kieran Alleyne, US duo TylerNStevie, and writer Dontae Johnson. Insanity CEO Andy Varley said:
“Dean is a fantastic artist manager, and I am very pleased to be bringing him and his clients into Insanity. With both Kieran and TylerNStevie already on the cusp of signing major record deals, now is a very exciting time for Dean and I to be working together.”
NATIVE / THEO PR
Swim Deep (RCA), Cinnamon Girl (RCA) and their recent PR successes include Jungle, Still Parade and Phoria. The current roster at Native includes Swim Deep, Snakadaktal and Oliver Wilde amongst others.
NMPA
BEN RYDER-SMITH and CHRIS FRASER have set-up independent publicity firm Native following their recent departure from Theo PR. Prior to working at Theo, Ryder- Smith gained experience at Ask Me PR and Blurb PR and Fraser at Freeman PR and Matador Records. They have worked with acts that
have gone on to sign record deals including Mausi (Global Publishing/Relentless Records),
The president and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) since 2005, DAVID ISRAELITE, will continue to serve in his role at the organisation until 2018. Irwin Robinson, NMPA board chairman said: “David has been an exceptional leader for the publishing and songwriting community and also the larger music industry.
“He has increased the stature
of NMPA and remains one of our industry’s strongest public champions for the rights and value of musical works. We’re pleased he’s agreed to stay on.”
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Jackie Hyde heads up Artist & Company Relations for Sony Music – organising all the artist and company events, gigs and promo.
She initially joined the
company in the summer of 1979 when it was CBS Records, first in the HR department and then in artist relations at Columbia - working with artists such as Alison Moyet, Adam Ant, Prefab Sprout, and artists on the iconic Def Jam label. In October 1988 Hyde took on responsibility for all artist events and promo across the Columbia and Epic labels, working with artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson including his historic shows at Wembley Stadium and launch party at the Savoy Hotel. When Sony bought CBS, corporate events and conferences were added to her brief and in 1999 she was
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promoted to director of Artist and Company Relations. With Sony merging with BMG in 2004, the roster of artists Hyde worked with expanded even further to include RCA artists such as Justin Timberlake, David Bowie, Christina Aguilera and Annie Lennox.
Hyde is a member of Music
Industry Trust Award committee, the Nordoff Robbins Fundraising and Silver Clef Committees.
“I was always a big music fan growing up. My tastes were, are still are, varied – I listened to anything from Nina Simone to Jay-Z and was always really keen to work in the industry. “I was extremely lucky that Ann-Marie Thomson, head of Media at Syco Entertainment, gave me my big break by giving me an internship at Syco where I got the opportunity to see first-hand what it was like really like working in entertainment and music PR... and it didn't put me off! “I moved to the Outside Organisation in
January 2010, working with Alan Edwards, whose guidance has definitely given me the confidence to work on high-profile accounts such as Jon Bon Jovi, AEG, Andrea Bocelli, The Jacksons, Lisa Stansfield to name but a few. “My day-to-day boss Chris Goodman has also been a big inspiration, has taught me to keep calm under pressure and that the small details matter!”
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