beatBread Brings on High-Level Employees from CD Baby and Spotify for Fractional Roles
The hires are intended to support beatBread’s continued growth
beatBread, the independent artist and label financing platform, has brought on three new fractional leadership roles. The employees come from CD Baby, Spotify, and Countsy to hold elevated positions at beatBread.
The hires:
Christine Barnum is Head of Financial Operations. Barnum was previously at CD Baby for almost 20 years, serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.
Michael Poole is CFO. Beyond Countsy, he worked at other global credit and capital market companies such as Community Investment Management, CircleUp, and Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
Jameson Toole is Board Advisor on AI and Machine Learning. He was Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify, where he developed real-time recommendation systems.
What they said:
Tracy Maddux, Interim CEO of beatBread: “Christine, Michael, and Jameson each bring significant expertise in areas that are core to beatBread’s future. As we scale our platform and deepen our relationships with independent artists and labels, their experience will help us strengthen our core capabilities and continue building solutions that put creators first.”
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This article was written with information sourced from Record of the Day.
We covered it because beatBread is a music industry company that’s raised hundreds of millions in funding.
