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Rell Lafargue

President and COO, Reservoir

As Reservoir’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Rell Lafargue oversees all aspects of the company’s day-to-day operations in New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi. When Lafargue joined Reservoir at its inception, the company represented four songwriters and 2,000 songs. Building on over twenty years of industry experience, he built the company’s … Continued

Thomas Coesfeld

CEO, BMG

Coesfeld was previously Chief Financial Officer of BMG from April 2021, and before that was Deputy Chief Financial Officer of BMG from October 2020.

Kim Frankiewicz

EVP, Worldwide Creative, Concord

Kim Frankiewicz is EVP of Worldwide Creative at Concord’s music publishing division. She was previously Managing Director of Imagem, which was acquired by Concord in a $500 million-plus deal in June 2017. Kim Frankiewicz: Career path Frankiewicz began her career in music management in her native Australia at MMA Management, where she was promoted to … Continued

Ole Obermann

Global Head of Music Business Development, ByteDance/TikTok

Ole Obermann is Global Head of Music Business Development at ByteDance – the parent company of TikTok.

Michelle Jubelirer

Chair & CEO, Capitol Music Group

Michelle Jubelirer was named CEO of Capitol Music Group in late 2021, stepping up from her prior role as President of the label group

Jim Selby

Chief Publishing Executive, Concord

Jim Selby is Chief Publishing Officer (CPO) at Concord. Born and raised in Canada, Selby spent 16 years at Naxos of America, where he was CEO from 2007 to 2014. He then joined Ole Media Management as the publisher’s SVP of Digital before becoming President of AdShare in 2015. jim selby: His concord career Jim … Continued

Jake Wisely

Partner, Concord

Jake Wisely is a partner and Director on the Board at Concord. Wisely acted as Chief Publishing Executive at Concord until January 2021 when he joined the company’s Board, maintaining an advisory role in the day-to-day operations of Concord Music Publishing. He was CEO of independent music publisher and rights manager, The Bicycle Music Company, … 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

Kristen Burke

Former President, Warner Music Canada

Burke spent 20 years at Universal Music Group before joining Warner Music Canada in 2021

Gregg Nadel

President

Gregg Nadel is Co-President of Elektra Music Group

Nir Seroussi

EVP, Interscope Geffen A&M

Nir Seroussi was named EVP of Interscope Geffen A&M in 2019

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

Michael Weissman

Michael Weissman joined SoundCloud from Vimeo in 2017, and became SoundCloud's CEO in January 2021

Emmanuel de Buretel

Founder, Because Music

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

David Ventura

President & Co-Managing Director UK, and Senior Vice President, International

As a renowned music publishing executive, David Ventura has signed or worked with the likes of Clean Bandit, Martin Solveig, Passenger, Kygo, Jorja Smith, Sigrid, Becky Hill, Camelphat and Skepta

Daniel Lieberberg

President, Continental Europe and Africa

Daniel Lieberberg is a leading German label executive and President, Continental Europe and Africa, Sony Music Entertainment

Crispin Hunt

Chair

Crispin Hunt is the former Longpigs frontman and a campaigner for songwriters as Chair of The Ivors Academy

Charles Kirby-Welch

Founder & CEO

Charles Kirby-Welch is the CEO and Founder of Kartel Music Group