28 MusicWeek 20.07.12 PEOPLE PERSONNEL FEIST AND NASH PR CHRIS LATHAM JOINS FORCES WITH PARTISAN PARTISAN PR / CHRIS LATHAM PR
MERCURY RECORDS UK Ex-Columbia and EMI Music Publishing exec Mike Smith has been hired by Mercury Records
UK as the label's new president of music. He starts in September. Smith joins label president
PARTISAN PR has joined forces with former head of Press at RCA, CHRIS LATHAM (above, second from left). Latham brings with him his
current roster, which includes the Brit and Grammy-nominated Feist and Brit Award-winner Kate Nash. He joins the Partisan team of LOUISE GOODLIFFE (above, far left), founder and MD PETER HALL (above, second from right) and ROB CHUTE (above, far right). Hall said: “I’m really excited to
have the opportunity to work with Chris. He is one of the most experienced, popular and
NEED TO KNOW
Week by week, build the best contact book in the business #38 Rachael Bee, MD Impact Ventures / ILUVLIVE
after a long-running club partnership. Bee is behind some of the
seminal black music nights of the early Nineties including Respect at The Wag and Flipside at Iceni. In 2001, she was
Rachael Bee put on her first club night when she was 19 years old. She went on to become a successful radio journalist working at BBC Radio 5, 4 and 1 and Kiss FM before moving into TV, racking up time with Live TV and ITV. Later she became producer, director and presenter at Emap’s first foray into the area with Kiss TV. In 1999 she launched
Impact Ventures, primarily to manage the MTV Lick Parties (it later took on artist management) which she launched with Trevor Nelson
headhunted and joined Def Jam Records as consultant general manager for its launch in the UK. She later launched Impact marketing services and went on to work with many artists including Ms Dynamite, Big Brovaz and Lemar. In 2008 Bee took on the
programming, marketing and management of live events for Urban Development and is now focused on the monthly live music night ILUVLIVE which has seen the likes of Jessie J, Emeli Sande and Tinie Tempah grace its bill. Bee continues to work with
Trevor Nelson on events, has a management venture, and carries out consultancy work which currently includes scouting for The Voice.
respected PR’s in the industry and he’ll be instrumental in the continuing growth of Partisan.” Latham commented: “I hold
Peter in the highest regard, both as a friend and professionally. He has quietly built Partisan into a successful, highly-rated PR company with a talented young team. I jumped at the chance to join forces with him because I think together we all offer a really strong proposition.” Latham started his career at
Heavenly Recordings in 1997, and has since held senior roles at Parlophone, Polydor and RCA.
Jason Iley and Clive Cawley - who has been promoted from label manager at imprint Vertigo to MD of Mercury, reporting into Iley. Elsewhere, Elliot Taylor from
Universal’s central sales team becomes commercial director for Mercury, while Rachael Paley returns to the label as senior marketing manager after two years away at Rhino and Warner Music.
TOAST PRESS As the company bids farewell to JENNY MYLES, who has gone on maternity leave, it welcomes RICHARD ONSLOW (above right) as senior press officer. He will work alongside Ruth and
Beth Drake on print PR including campaigns for acts including Jessie Ware, Django Django,
AlunaGeorge, Disclosure, Spector, Bloc Party, Benga and Peace. Prior to Toast, Onslow worked in-
house at XL.
INFINITE FUTURE (IFM) The newly-established artist management company is spearheaded by AARON ROSS who has 15 years experience in the music industry, including A&R management roles at Virgin Records and global dance brand Defected. The company's launch roster
includes Kris Kiss, East & Young, Scarlett and Random Crash.
UMG Universal Music Group (UMG) has appointed JENS KESSLER to chief
information officer. Based in Los Angeles, Kessler
will be responsible for all aspects of UMG’s Global Information Technology (IT) division, managing the strategy, development and implementation of all country and regional IT systems.
PULSE Talent management and integrated content production company, Pulse, has appointed JASON BICK in the role of head of New Business for its music division. Bick joins from music, fashion
and film media group Clash Music and will report to Marisa Clifford, COO, and Thomas Benski, CEO. He will work with Pulse’s Music
department to help drive new business opportunities and ensure media partnerships and promo opportunities around Pulse’s music documentaries are maximised.
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MY BIG BREAK How UK luminaries arrived in the music industry…
Natalie Shaw, Head of Editorial, MOBO Organisation “After studying Law at UCL, I emerged from the
library confused. The first in my family to go to university, advice was scarce - instinctively, I approached John Earls, then-Editor of Teletext’s Planet Sound. He bravely set me free on daily 50-word reviews, and I was ecstatic. “I then started writing free for anyone who’d
have me. Cluelessly interviewing Estelle and spending five of our allocated 10 minutes fan-girling. Next was my editorship at Muso’s Guide, funded by temp work - transcribing calls to an adult TV channel being investigated by OFCOM (really). “Eventually I found a route into non-music
TOP TIP Keep learning. Go off-piste, and teach yourself new things. If they don’t excite you, don’t
bother - and if your passion for music starts to fade then you’re in the wrong industry.
digital freelance work, giving me enough money to start a label, promote shows, teach myself online PR, tour manage and DJ. The double life was exhausting, but each experience helped shape my understanding of the industry and carve out new opportunities.
“After running social media for some big pop acts, consulting brands and working for
ITV.com, I very recently joined the MOBO Organisation as head of editorial. It’s my dream job, and I’m hoping to produce great things.”
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