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By Chris Cooke | Printed on Tuesday 13 December 2022
Common Music has appointed a brand new President for its enterprise in Australia and New Zealand following the information yesterday that the incumbent boss for the area, George Ash, is standing down.
The brand new President for UMG Australia and New Zealand, taking up on 1 Jan, is Sean Warner, who has had numerous roles on the main since becoming a member of as a Nationwide Gross sales Supervisor in 2007, most not too long ago SVP of Industrial.
In an announcement asserting the promotion, Common mentioned its incoming President had “led the corporate’s business enterprise over the previous fifteen years, from bodily gross sales to the streaming period, along with overseeing the business technique in Southeast Asia, launching Bravado’s merchandise and licensing operations within the Australia and New Zealand area, and growing UMA’s e-commerce enterprise”.
Previous to starting his lengthy stint at Common, Warner labored in numerous different roles throughout the media and leisure sectors in Australia, together with at TV enterprise Foxtel, and the gaming firms of BMG and Sony. Though, alas, by no means a Warner leisure firm.
Confirming his new job, Warner says: “It’s an honour and a privilege to tackle this function as President of Common Music Australia and New Zealand. Because the area’s main music firm, we’ll proceed to innovate and evolve our companies, and help our artists and labels as they ship the perfect music and tradition to followers”.
Total Common boss man Lucian Grainge provides: “Sean’s deep understanding of the Australian market mixed along with his operational expertise and the respect he has earned from his UMG colleagues and artists – each home and worldwide – makes him the perfect government to tackle the function of President. I’m assured he’ll broaden our monitor report of inventive and business success in a market that so culturally vital”.
An earlier assertion from Common mentioned that Ash’s departure from the most important was “a long-planned private resolution to deal with new objectives and tasks, while leaving the corporate underneath the management of a brand new technology of executives, who will proceed to construct on the legacy of inventive and business success that has flourished throughout his tenure”.
Ash himself mentioned of his exit: “Having been with the corporate for practically three many years, the time feels proper. I’m so assured in, and happy with, the sensible management group now we have in place, in addition to the optimistic modifications now we have made prior to now couple of years, and I’m excited to see the corporate, workers, labels, and artists proceed to develop and thrive within the years forward”.
When the Australian division of Sony Music imploded final 12 months following the sudden departure of long-serving CEO Denis Handlin and wide-ranging stories concerning the poisonous company tradition he had overseen, some criticisms have been additionally made about working practices at UMG Australia as properly.
On the time Ash mentioned he was “heartbroken” concerning the allegations of dangerous observe, telling the Sydney Morning Herald: “My preliminary response was ‘I don’t know whether or not the allegations are true or not’, but it surely made me assume we haven’t carried out sufficient and we have to do extra in our firm. I must step up and take accountability”.
An unbiased investigation into the allegations was instigated, with Ash telling workers in a memo: “Because the chief of this firm I take full accountability for making a respectful office tradition for everybody”.
