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New Asia Pacific boss for Warner Music
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 24 October 2014
Warner Music Group yesterday announced that Simon Robson, currently COO and CFO for Warner Music UK, will take over leadership of the major’s Asia Pacific division from 1 Jan next year, reporting into Stu Bergen, President, International at Warner Recorded Music. He takes over from Lachie Rutherford who will retire and step down in December this year.
Confirming Robson’s appointment, Bergen said: “Simon is one of our organisation’s most impressive executives whose strategic and operational expertise, as well as his keen commercial instincts and his deep knowledge of the region, mean he is ideally placed to lead Warner Music Asia Pacific into the next phase of its evolution. I am confident that Simon will help us seize the many new opportunities emerging for our artists and our business there and I look forward to all he will accomplish in his new role”.
Back in the UK, Peter Breeden will take over as CFO of Warner’s British business, a promotion from his current role as SVP & Finance Director.