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By Andy Malt | Printed on Wednesday 7 December 2022
The UK’s Affiliation Of Impartial Music has appointed Silvia Montello as its new CEO. She replaces Paul Pacifico, who’s controversially leaving to affix The Saudi Music Fee.
“I’m actually excited to be becoming a member of the crew within the new 12 months and honoured to proceed spearheading the nice work AIM has finished since its inception to help and champion the UK’s impartial music neighborhood”, says Montello.
“Our trade is evolving at an ever-increasing tempo, that evolution bringing with it each contemporary alternatives round music consumption and creation, viewers improvement, new know-how options, alongside present and future challenges for our neighborhood to work collectively to beat”.
“AIM will proceed its dedication to making sure our impartial creators and rightsholders can reap the utmost advantages, striving in direction of a really numerous and inclusive trade that nurtures nice expertise from each style, background and id”, she provides.
AIM Chair Nadia Khan – who oversaw the recruitment course of – feedback: “On behalf of my colleagues on the AIM board, I’m delighted to welcome Silvia Montello to the crew. Silvia is well-known to lots of our members, she has been an lively participant and engaged member of the impartial neighborhood for a few years and can be a implausible chief for AIM”.
“Her in depth trade background, contact base, enterprise improvement abilities, ardour for range and inclusion, and imaginative and prescient for the longer term carry renewed management to AIM”, she provides.
On the method of hiring Montello, Khan goes on: “It was an honour to steer the recruitment course of and an enormous thanks to Kate Reilly for all her invaluable help. It was essential to me that we ran a good and clear course of, and that we engaged with a various and broad vary of candidates”.
“From the outset, I set range targets and personally inspired a variety of candidates to use, together with Silvia, as I admired her work within the trade. I’m very enthusiastic about this new chapter for AIM and look ahead to working with Silvia in her new position as CEO”.
Montello will take up her new position in January, shifting over from her present job as CEO of the Affiliation For Digital Music. She has beforehand held senior roles at Common Music, BMG and AWAL. She can also be co-founder of #remarQabl, a label companies and publishing firm supporting new expertise from under-represented backgrounds, and is a trustee of Assist Musicians.
