Yes, yet another EMI executive appointment for you. Timothy Ryan was formerly Marketing Director for Setanta Sports, one of the biggest failures in recent British broadcasting history. So he should fit in just fine at EMI where he'll be SVP Global Priorities, Catalogue Marketing, which is a mouthful of a job title if nothing else. Prior to sports telly, Ryan had senior marketing roles at AOL and Orange.
Confirming the appointment, his new boss, EMI's catalogue chief Ernesto Schmitt, told CMU: "A music fan himself, Timothy is an expert in positioning high-growth media brands and consumer propositions and has a strong track record in applying digital marketing across mobile, broadband and broadcast. These will be valuable skills as we grow our consumer insight capability and leverage it to provide consumers with the music products and services they want to buy."
If anyone knows what that means, keep it to yourself. Always good to hear that record labels think it's something worth noting when they hire a music fan, though.