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Sarah Stennett

Founder, First Access Entertainment

Sarah Stennett is the CEO/Co-Founder of the London, England-headquartered First Access Entertainment. Her previous music venture, Turn First Artists, was folded into First Access Entertainment after partnering with Warner Music. Stennett also founded the music law firm SSB, which notably represents Adele. Sarah Stennett: Career History Sarah Stennett’s first management company, Turn First Artists, is … Continued

Sipho Dlamini

President, Africa & Middle East at gamma

Sipho Dlamini is President, Africa & Middle East at gamma, a music company founded by Larry Jackson, the US-based A&R impresario, and a former Global Creative Director at Apple. He joined gamma in May 2023. Dlamini is the former CEO of Universal Music South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. He joined UMG in 2016. Dlamini is credited … Continued

Amy Thomson

CEO of ATM Catalog Management Services

Amy Thomson is CEO of ATM Catalog Management Services. Thomson is a former manager of some of the world’s biggest electronic artists, including Swedish House Mafia, and a former Chief Catalog Officer of Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Thomson joined Hipgnosis Songs Fund in September 2020, but later left the Hipgnosis group in 2022. Amy Thomson: Electronic … Continued

Ron Perry

CEO & Chairman

Ron Perry is the CEO and Chairman of Columbia Records. He is also the former President of SONGS Music Publishing, and was a partner of SONGS since 2004, when that company was founded. Perry has signed and developed the career of songwriters and artists such as XXXTentacion, Lorde, The Weeknd, Diplo, Major Lazer, Q-Tip, amongst … Continued

Carianne Marshall

COO

Carianne Marshall is the COO and Co-Chair of Warner/Chappell Music Publishing

Elizabeth Matthews

CEO, ASCAP

Elizabeth Matthews joined ASCAP in 2013 in an EVP role from her prior tenture at Viacom

Charles Caldas

Partner

Charles Caldas is a Partner in Exceleration Music and the former CEO of Merlin

Alison Wenham

Chief Operating Officer

Alison Wenham OBE is a veteran of the independent music world, having co-founded both the Association of Independent Music (AIM) in the UK, and the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN)

Michele Anthony

EVP, Universal Music Group

Michele Anthony is one of music’s most respected and influential executives with a career spanning over three decades. As Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group (UMG), she oversees the world’s largest music company’s U.S. commercial services and business development across all divisions. MICHELE ANTHONY: EARLY CAREER AND SONY MUSIC Michele Anthony’s music industry journey … Continued

Jimmy Iovine

Jimmy Iovine is a music industry titan whose career spans multiple decades and sectors – from engineering and producing hit records to co-founding one of the industry’s most influential labels, and later co-creating a groundbreaking technology company that revolutionized digital music consumption. JIMMY IOVINE: EARLY CAREER AS ENGINEER AND PRODUCER Born on March 11, 1953, … Continued

Jeff Price

Founder & CEO, Word Collections

Jeff Price is the Co-Founder and CEO of Word Collections, which licenses rights across music, spoken word and comedy to streaming services, digital broadcasters and audio/visual services. In 1990, Price co-founded New York-based independent record label spinART records (Pixies, Echo & The Bunnymen, Apples In Stereo, Richard Thompson etc), which had strategic relationships with Sony, … Continued

Alejandro Duque

President of ADA and President Of Warner Music LatAm

Alejandro Duque joined Universal Music in 2005 before rising to MD of the firm's Latino operation

Emmanuel de Buretel

Founder, Because Music

Emmanuel de Buretel founded Because Music in 2004 after a near-two decade career with EMI and Virgin

Chris Taylor

Global President, Music

Chris Taylor is the Global President, Music at Entertainment One, as well as a renowned music lawyer who has worked with the likes of Drake, Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne and more

Chris Lombardi

Founder

As the Founder of Matador Records, Chris Lombardi has worked with artists including Queens Of The Stone Age, Liz Phair, Interpol, Belle & Sebastian, Kurt Vile, Savages, and Cat Power

Elie Habib

Co-founder & CTO, Anghami

Elie Habib co-founded Anghami, which floated on the NASDAQ in 2021

Peter Edge

CEO and Chairman, RCA Records

British-born executive Peter Edge is CEO and Chairman of RCA Records, which works with artists such as Khalid, Childish Gambino, H.E.R, P!nk and Justin Timberlake. Edge was named President of A&R, RCA Music Group (RMG), since 2007. Sony Music became the parent company of RCA Music Group in 2011 which at the time included Arista, … Continued

Nick Shymansky

Nick Shymansky’s journey into the music industry was influenced by his familial connections. As the nephew of renowned music executives Sir Lucian Grainge and the late Nigel Grainge, Shymansky was exposed to the intricacies of the music business from a young age. Reflecting on his early interactions with his uncles, he noted in a 2024 … Continued