Common Music New Zealand is present process a management transition as Managing Director and Chairman Adam Holt prepares to retire after greater than three many years with the corporate.
Holt, who has led the New Zealand division for twenty-four years, will retire efficient April 30. The corporate has promoted present Basic Managers Myra Hemara and Matt Kidd to function Co-Managing Administrators starting Might 1, reporting to Common Music Australia & New Zealand President Sean Warner.
Commenting on Holt’s retirement, Warner mentioned: “All through his tenure he constantly promoted a constructive tradition of each UMNZ and UMA, garnering him huge respect from each workers and artists alike.”
“Adam is a passionate music man, caring mentor and consummate skilled, who led from the entrance and made lifelong mates throughout the UMG, the artist group artists and with our companions all over the world.”
Holt joined Common Music Group via its predecessor firm Polygram and has spent a complete of 34 years with the corporate.
“Main the New Zealand firm for UMG has been the expertise of my life. I’m immensely pleased with what we now have achieved and the challenges we now have efficiently navigated through the years, nevertheless it’s time for me and the corporate to begin the subsequent chapter,” mentioned Holt.
“An enormous thanks to Sir Lucian Grainge and Sean for trusting me with UMNZ for therefore lengthy, and an enormous thanks to the whole Common Music group throughout New Zealand and Australia. You might be an incredible group of individuals and I’ll miss you immensely. Most significantly, thanks to all of the artists I’ve had the dignity to serve in my time at Common. I stay in full awe of you all.”
The incoming co-managing administrators carry vital expertise inside Common Music’s New Zealand operations. Hemara joined the corporate in 2006, serving to set up Common Music New Zealand’s digital division and technique. She was named Basic Supervisor in 2017, overseeing worldwide artist advertising and viewers improvement.
In the meantime, Kidd has spent 12 years with UMNZ, starting in promotions and public relations earlier than rising to guide home repertoire and enterprise improvement. As common supervisor since 2017, he has targeted on exporting New Zealand expertise to international markets.
Warner mentioned each executives have been “on the forefront of the modifications we now have made in New Zealand over the previous couple of years.” Along with Chief Monetary Officer and Industrial Director Tony Jenks, they’ll type the chief management group for UMNZ’s operations.
“Being given this chance to guide Common Music New Zealand alongside Matt is a superb privilege and honor,” mentioned Hemara.
“The legacy Adam has created for our artists and employees has offered an unbelievable basis for Matt and I to construct on. I’m trying ahead to fostering a tradition of connection, creativity and collaboration and delivering much more success for our extremely proficient artists.”
Kidd mentioned, “It’s thrilling to tackle this new function at an exciting level within the enterprise, the place the panorama and scope for the way we are able to work with and develop our artists is altering dramatically. I’m past excited to be part of the perfect group within the nation and to proceed driving excellence and innovation for our artists in New Zealand, and all over the world.”
Artists signed with Common Music New Zealand embody Lorde, Kiki Rockwell, Lance Savali, and Crowded Home, amongst others.
The modifications at Common Music New Zealand mark the newest management transfer throughout the broader Common Music Group. Lower than two weeks in the past, UMG’s REPUBLIC Collective — which incorporates Island Data, Def Jam Recordings, Mercury Data, and Republic Data — introduced a brand new spherical of government promotions and hires throughout varied departments.
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