Angela Lopes promoted to Senior Vice President, Technique and Investments at Sony Music

Sony Music Leisure (SME) has introduced a mix of its company and digital investments, M&A and strategic planning groups.

As a part of this transformation, Angela Lopes has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Technique and Investments.

She shall be primarily based within the firm’s New York workplace, reporting to SME Chief Working Officer Kevin Kelleher and Dennis Kooker, President of International Digital Enterprise.

In her new function, Lopes will work with the corporate’s Govt Management and International Digital Enterprise (GDB) groups in arising with methods and investing alternatives that help SME’s artistic and monetary progress.

Lopes joined Sony Music in 2013 after working as a method advisor for McKinsey & Firm in London and Port Jackson Companions in Sydney, serving shoppers throughout the retail, manufacturing, logistics, and power industries.

She has spent the final 9 years searching for and evaluating partnership and funding alternatives for SME and negotiating digital music distribution offers for the corporate’s GDB workforce. She additionally targeted on growing international streaming, artist providers, the creator financial system, social media, gaming, NFTs, the metaverse and extra for SME.

Additional, Lopes oversaw quite a lot of transactions together with SME’s acquisition of podcast producer Somethin’ Else and the corporate’s strategic funding in Chinese language music streaming platform NetEase Cloud Music.

Lopes additionally led Sony Music’s funding in superfan social platform Fave and creator-safe music platform Slip.stream, amongst different participations in funding varied music and know-how startups.

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SME introduced the identical day that it has appointed Derek Lee as CFO of Alamo Information.

Based in 2016, Alamo, primarily based in New York, signed artists together with Blackbear, Lil Durk and Rod Wave.

Lee beforehand spent greater than 20 years with Sony Music Leisure in varied roles in finance, information analytics and technique.

He most not too long ago served as Senior Vice President, Company Technique for SME.

Sony Music stated Lopes’ and Lee’s appointments construct on a collection of strategic investments by the corporate within the final two years, together with the acquisition of Alamo, in addition to AWAL/Kobalt Neighboring Rights and Som Livre.

“Derek is a extremely skilled finance govt and strategist who understands tips on how to establish and develop methods for music firms to boost their enterprise.”

Todd Moscowitz, Alamo

Commenting on Lee’s appointment, Alamo CEO Todd Moscowitz advised workers in an inside memo, obtained by MBW, that, “Derek is a extremely skilled finance govt and strategist who understands tips on how to establish and develop methods for music firms to boost their enterprise, and he’ll play an necessary half in serving to us take Alamo to the subsequent degree.

He added: “I’m thrilled he’s a part of our workforce and stay up for his contributions in our ongoing efforts to ship for our artists as a preeminent vacation spot for expertise.”

“I’m thrilled to be persevering with my profession with Sony Music on this expanded function, and excited to be supporting the Firm’s total progress in a dynamic and altering market.”

Angela Lopes, Sony Music Leisure

Lopes stated: “I’m thrilled to be persevering with my profession with Sony Music on this expanded function, and excited to be supporting the Firm’s total progress in a dynamic and altering market.

“I stay up for working with SME’s management and the International Technique and Investments workforce to establish applied sciences, strategic partnerships and investments that additional improve Sony Music’s enterprise and the size of our help for our artists and labels.”

“Advancing our investments and technique worldwide is a vital a part of our ongoing success as an organization.”

Kevin Kelleher, Sony Music Leisure

Kelleher stated: “Advancing our investments and technique worldwide is a vital a part of our ongoing success as an organization.

“By combining these efforts beneath Angela’s expertise, we proceed to be in an incredible place to effectively spot and maximize alternatives that additional evolve our enterprise globally.”

 Music Enterprise Worldwide