The Beatport Group makes string of promotions and group modifications

The Beatport Group, a portfolio of music corporations for DJs and producers, has made key appointments in its administration together with C-suite modifications and selling quite a lot of executives.

Included in these modifications is the promotion of Sean Sullivan, who has been named Chief Know-how Officer.

Sullivan has been with Beatport since 2018. He most just lately served as Senior Vice President of Know-how after serving as Vice President of Know-how and Director of Infrastructure, in line with his LinkedIn web page.

Beatport additionally opened the brand new position of Chief Group Officer to supervise group partnerships, regional enterprise growth and company communications. The place is predicted to be crammed within the first quarter of 2023, the corporate mentioned in a press launch on Thursday (November 17).

Beatport has additional revealed that will probably be transitioning all staff in its Berlin and Denver places of work to “absolutely distant” work within the first half of 2023.

It added that it’s going to concentrate on constructing its London (together with the Producer Group workplace Brighton) and Los Angeles workplace areas sooner or later.

The corporate says that “these modifications resulted in 5 positions being eradicated in Berlin”.

“Whereas we flip the web page on our longstanding places of work in Denver and Berlin, we’ll preserve a significant presence in each areas for a few years to come back,” mentioned CEO Robb McDaniels.

Moreover, the corporate has promoted Helen Sartory to SVP, Creator Providers accountable for each the DJ Group (Beatport and Beatsource) and Producer Group (Loopcloud and Plugin Boutique); Brian Wong to Basic Supervisor of the DJ Group and Gareth Halsall as GM of the Producer Group.

Meike Nolte was named Head of the Artist Providers crew reporting to Sartory, whereas Heiko Hoffmann will switch to the Company Technique & Advertising Group to work on the corporate’s schooling initiative whereas additionally overseeing the editorial web site, Beatportal.

Beatport has additionally promoted Julia Kammann to VP of Individuals & Tradition, reporting on to CEO Robb McDaniels.

Commenting on the modifications, McDaniels mentioned: “The Beatport Group continues to construct a world-class crew and I’m so happy to have the ability to elevate these unbelievable people into their new roles the place they’re positive to have a massively constructive impression on their colleagues and our merchandise.”

Based in Denver in 2004, Beatport opened its first workplace in Berlin just a few years later and expanded into London and Los Angeles after rising into a world music firm specializing in DJs.

“Whereas we flip the web page on our longstanding places of work in Denver and Berlin, we’ll preserve a significant presence in each areas for a few years to come back.”

Robb McDaniels, The BEatport Group

The corporate at the moment has greater than 200 staff, up from 40 by the tip of 2017.

The newest transfer follows the addition of three new members to the corporate’s board final month. The brand new board members embody Maria Could, Head of Digital/Worldwide at Artistic Artists Company; Adrienne Everett, previously an Account Director at Linkedin in Advertising Options; and Troy Duncan, a Managing Director of Fortress Funding Group.

It additionally follows one other C-level appointment in August when Beatport appointed Matt Gralen to the place of Chief Monetary Officer. Gralen joined the corporate from UnitedMasters, a distribution platform for unbiased artists, the place he served as EVP of Company Growth.Music Enterprise Worldwide