
Ron Broitman, Mel Curley and Jay Rosenstock
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Ron Broitman has been named President of Global Sync at Warner Music Group, running a single sync organization that merges the recorded music and publishing teams. He most recently held the EVP, Global Sync post on the recorded side, and earlier ran sync for Warner Chappell and WMG jointly. Before WMG, he built the film, TV and advertising department at Sony/ATV and merged sync operations for the BMG and Zomba catalogs. He reports to WMG COO Tom Corson, with Warner Chappell Chair & CEO Guy Moot providing strategic oversight.
James "Jay" Rosenstock is the new Chief Financial Officer of Too Lost Music Group. He has been CFO at ezCater, Skillshare and KKR-backed PlayOn Sports, and earlier held corporate development roles at Sony Entertainment and Discovery Communications. He also served as President of VICELAND International and EVP, International at WWE. At Too Lost he will lead global finance and work on capital allocation and acquisitions.
Mel Curley has been appointed Global Head of Editorial & Marketing Partnerships at Believe, based in New York and reporting to CMO Darya Pourshasb. She comes from Amazon Music, where she was Global Head of Independent Label Relations, and previously held senior commerce and marketing posts at Arista Records. Her role covers platform relationships across Believe's Artist Services, Label & Artist Solutions and TuneCore.
Pete Robinson has been named GM of Creative Nashville at Position Music, reporting to founder and CEO Tyler Bacon and President Mark Chipello. A co-founder of Big Deal Music, he previously held SVP of A&R roles at RCA and Epic and launched his own consultancy in 2022.
Roberto Andrade Dirak has been promoted to President of Warner Music Latina and A&R, Latin America, adding regional A&R to his label role. He joined Warner Music Latina as Managing Director in 2022, after six years managing Sebastián Yatra. He stays in Miami and reports to Warner Music International President Alejandro Duque.
Elsewhere in the industry…
Chris McAndrew has launched Los Angeles management company Neighbor West, with Atlantic’s Kevian Kraemer and singer-songwriter Mariam Kubursi as its first clients. He previously co-founded Pala Management and is an IP attorney at Akerman LLP.
Maree Hamblion has been promoted to EVP, A&R and Creative for Australia and New Zealand at Universal Music Publishing Group, reporting to David Gray. She was previously SVP, A&R at UMPG ANZ and spent years at EMI and Sony Music Publishing before that.
Chris Hammond has been promoted to SVP of the Pacific Northwest at AEG Presents, based in Seattle. He was previously a regional VP of Talent in Las Vegas and reports to Brent Fedrizzi.
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