Affiliation For Digital Music Appoints First Feminine CEO, Silvia Montello – EDM.com
In a landmark second for the dance music business, Silvia Montello has been named the brand new CEO of the Affiliation For Digital Music (AFEM).
Montello will change Greg Marshall, who has served as CEO over the past 4 years. Notably, she would be the first feminine CEO to guide the non-profit group, which incorporates 250 members hailing from over 25 distinctive international locations. Previous to becoming a member of the group, she labored at a wide range of main music organizations together with BMG, Kobalt Music/AWAL, and Our Worth Music over the course of 30 years.
“Our business continues to evolve at a tempo, perpetually bringing with it new alternatives and rising applied sciences,” Montello mentioned in a press launch shared with EDM.com. “I stay up for serving to convey collectively a tremendous ecosystem of platforms, group, professionals and creators in constructing sustainable success by way of innovation, variety, inclusion and collaboration.”
Referred to as a number one institutional voice of the digital music business, AFEM is a commerce group with consultant members from artist administration companies, labels, promotional corporations, businesses, streaming platforms, startups and extra. The group was co-founded by Ben Turner and Kurosh Nasseri in 2013.
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“Silvia has established herself as a robust voice within the digital music business all through her spectacular profession together with a confirmed monitor file of creating and rising corporations to their full potential,” Turner and Nasseri added in a joint assertion. “From the second she joined AFEM as a committee member in 2019, the group benefited from her insightful contribution.”
Montello’s first public talking look as CEO of AFEM shall be at Ibiza’s Worldwide Music Summit in late April, the place her keynote speech will assist commemorate AFEM’s landmark tenth anniversary.