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Berklee College of Music alumnus and trustee Josh Gruss , the CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Round Hill Music has gifted the College $1 million to establish the Josh Gruss/Round Hill Music Endowed Scholarship Fund.
This scholarship will support financially and academically deserving students majoring in Music Business and Management.
• Former Warner Music Group exec Dan Goldberg is joining Fanatics, a major player in licensed sports merchandise, as SVP, Music and Entertainment Development.
• Audiobridge, a mobile music recording and collaboration platform has launched its music creation tool which includes the ability for creators to easily upload and share their songs directly from the app to TikTok and SoundCloud in a few taps.
• Festicket is announcing a North American expansion with the appointment of Stephanie Rosa and Steve Levy as VP of Sales and Consultant General Manager for North America, respectively. Levy was CMO of Virgin Fest and Insomniac Events’ Head of Marketing.
• Symphonic Distribution‘s licensing arm Bodega Sync is expanding to Europe and Latin America, signing partnership deals with Carbonero Music Publishing (Colombia) and Ace Music (Colombia/Spain).
In Europe, Bodega has inked partnership deals with Steam Music (Germany) and KAA Production (France).
Led by Symphonic’s new head of business development in Mexico, Ariel Etbul, Bodega Sync will have exclusive access to a combined 10,000+ pre-cleared songs in a wide range of genres.
• See Tickets’ North American operations announced Marisa Lorion Veeh as its new Vice President of Product. Claire Lopacki is taking on the role of Head of Design, transitioning from her previous role as Senior Product Designer. moters.
Ticketing company veteran MaryMargaret Walsh-Bilus comes on as Director of Sales Operations. She has held sales and operations roles at Crowdtorch, Ticketfly, and Eventbrite.
Bruce Houghton is Founder and Editor of Hypebot and MusicThinkTank and serves as a Senior Advisor to Bandsintown which acquired both publications in 2019. He is the Founder and President of the Skyline Artists Agency and a professor for the Berklee College Of Music.
