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EMI comms chief stands down
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 10 September 2010
EMI’s global corporate communications chief Amanda Conroy will take the log flume out of the music major’s HQ for the final time ever following her decision to leave the flagging music major. She is leaving because of EMI chief Roger Faxon’s decision to base his comms office in New York rather than London.
Says Faxon: “Amanda has given tremendous service to this company through a ten year period that has seen huge amounts of change, both at EMI and within the wider music industry. Her wise counsel throughout that time has been invaluable, and we wish her all the best with her future career”.
Says Conroy: “I have loved my time at EMI. It has been a privilege to work with such creative and talented people and in an industry that has been at the leading edge of the digital age. I wish EMI, Roger and everyone at the company all success in the future”.
EMI Music Publishing comms man Dylan Jones will take over from Conroy in a new Group-wide role.
Talking of EMI’s publishing bit, they made some other appointments in their European division yesterday, with Stefan Gullberg from the company’s Scandinavian business becoming Executive Vice President of European A&R; David Ventura, formerly of French radio station NRJ’s label operations, becoming Vice President Of European Creative; and Lars Ewald, also from EMI’s Scandinavian division, becoming Head Of European Song Pitching.
For legal reasons we must stress EMI HQ does not have a log flume by which key execs depart the building. Though there were rumours it was expensive plans to install such a log flume that led to the previous EMI Music boss Elio Leoni-Sceti being dispensed with earlier this year.
For legal reasons we must stress there weren’t.
