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BMG hires Billy Mann
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 7 January 2011
The ever-expansive BMG has announced the appointment of Billy Mann to the job of President Of Creative, or something similar.
Songwriter and producer Mann’s most recent executive role, of course, was at EMI, where he was one of the higher profile post-Terra Firma appointments, initially as a Chief Creative Officer, and later as a globally-focused A&R exec and the guy overseeing EMI’s first dabblings in artist management. He left the London-based major last September.
Confirming the new appointment, BMG’s Chief Creative Officer Richard Blackstone said this: “Billy is one of the few people in our industry who has experienced the creative journey from all sides. Artists and their managers who have worked with him know they have a trusted advocate in Billy and industry executives know they are dealing with someone who has successfully combined entrepreneurial independence and creativity with stamina and ambition”.
