34 MusicWeek 15.06.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL LOVELIVE STAFFS UP WITH FOUR NEW SENIOR HIRES
LOVELIVE The live music content specialist has announced a number of senior
hires to support its continuing global expansion. WILL MCGILLIVRAY, (above)
formerly channel manager at MTV for ten years and former Ginx TV creative director joins as head of Content & Programming. He will spearhead LoveLive’s development of new IP across TV, mobile and web formats. ABBY NEWELL, (left) who previously worked at Warner Brothers Entertainment
and Sony Music, is taking the role of commercial manager. Newell will work closely with her
new team to build the company’s offering and relationships
with outside brands, and is tasked with consolidating LoveLive’s reputation in branded content solutions. PAUL WATKINS, former head of
financial planning and analysis at FTSE 250 company Perform Group PLC, joins as finance director. He brings senior level digital media and corporate experience to the team, including rights management and M&A on a global scale. CHERRY COLLARD, previously
of Red Light Campaign, joins the social team which represents LoveLive’s continued commitment to investing in digital marketing and distribution IQ. Following on from the recent
launch of LoveLive’s Asia-Pacific division, the company has increased its international footprint by joining forces with New York-based Giant Step. The boutique marketing agency, with an expertise in music and entertainment, will act as LoveLive’s North American affiliate, helping to grow the business across the continent.
Richard Cohen, LoveLive CEO,
said: “I’m thrilled to have such remarkable talent joining the LoveLive team at such an exciting time in our development. Our recent growth has been extraordinary and Will, Abby, Paul, Cherry, and indeed the team at Giant Step, are perfectly placed to support the company’s ongoing expansion.” In addition, former managing
director SAM JONES is elevated to the position of chief operating officer and will report to CEO Cohen and the LoveLive board. His added responsibilities include overseeing the company’s international expansion to Asia- Pacific and North America.
FREUD / VIAGOGO OLI WHEELER, board director at Freud Communications and longstanding right-hand man to Matthew Freud, is leaving the consultancy after 18 years to join European online ticket marketplace Viagogo in the newly created role of global comms director from September.
Freud has represented Viagogo since its launch in 2006 and will continue to represent
the company. Wheeler said: “It was a huge
decision to leave Freud’s having spent almost all my working life at the agency. However, I have worked with Viagogo for the past six years and it is a very impressive, consumer-focused business. I am excited to be joining a company that is not only the leader in its field, but also one of Europe’s most successful internet companies.” During his time at Freud,
Wheeler set up the corporate reputation department, now one of the largest divisions, as the consultancy has expanded beyond consumer PR. His main accounts were PepsiCo, Yum Brands and Birds Eye. He is also known as an
expert in crisis communications.
DOMINO Domino Records' communications manager MONA DEHGHAN has left the indie label after almost four years. She has exited Domino to take
a publicity position at Tell All Your Friends PR alongside Kip Kouri and associates. Dehghan said: “I feel very lucky
to have forged the amazing relationships with the artists and staff at Domino Records, and though it pains me to leave this position, it is not without excitement and optimism for the future.” Pushkar Ojha
will now be
handling press requests at Domino, radio requests go to Justin Gressley and advertising/ticket requests to Mark Kelliher.
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How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry…
#33 Denzyl Feigelson, Founder, AWAL
Denzyl Feigelson is a music and entertainment industry entrepreneur with a career boasting 35 years and two self- started companies. The early Eighties saw him
enter the industry on a grand scale when he produced the first multi-racial Concert in the Park in his homeland South Africa before starting artist- management, production and music-licensing company Next Step Inc. Feigelson then founded and
launched digital distribution and label services company Artists Without A Label
(
AWAL.com) in 1997 which was sold to Kobalt in January this year - at the same time as the rights firm announced $100m of new investment. In 2002 the exec joined
Apple as a strategic advisor and music synergist. He was heavily involved in the 2003 launch and subsequent success of iTunes, including overseeing hundreds of global live events for the company, including iTunes Festival. With his AWAL partners Kevin
Bacon and Jon Quarmby, he is also the co-founder of analytics company
buzzdeck.com.
“I left school, put my University place back a year and gave myself a year to get into the music industry. “I started writing material to perform myself
as an artist and got a manager who played some of my songs to publishers. Almost immediately Warner Chappell Music Publishing’s artist A&R Mike Sault offered me a deal developing me as a writer and artist. “Just before I signed my publishing deal the boy band 911 covered my track The Day We
TOP TIP“Stick at it and never give up, keep striving to perfect your craft, and work hard. Being a musician/writer/performer isn’t a job, it's a way of life and a way of being - give your 100% to that being and it'll give you 100% back! Also, always be grateful for the privilege of doing what you love.”
Find Love which reached No. 4 in the UK chart. I went on to pen Maybe That’s What It Takes for Alex Parks which reached No. 3. “When I released my solo album New Red
Dress, I asked Youth (Verve’s Urban Hymns, Primal Scream, Dido) if he would produce the record and it became Album of The Week on Radio 2. I signed to Music Sales in 2010, recording my new album Calling All Angels, from which single The Innocents is currently appears on The Box TV and Magic FM TV.”
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