Royalty Share Names Derryberry VP

RoyaltyShare, a provider of digital royalty solutions, has named Catie Derryberry as Vice President, Strategic Accounts. A twenty-year music industry veteran, Derryberry will support the company’s large label and distributor accounts including Welk Music Group, Razor & Tie, Beggars Banquet (U.K.), Destra (Australia), Madacy (Canada) as well as sign new clients.  Derryberry will be based at the company’s San Diego headquarters and will report to Steve Grady, president and COO.

Derryberry has extensive experience in royalty administration and business processes at both major and independent record labels.  Derryberry’s career has included working in administrative roles for MCA Records, the predecessor of Universal Music Group, as well as for BMG-distributed Private Music, as director of copyright and business affairs, overseeing the licensing and royalties for the various sub-labels under its charter. She later moved to BMG Latin in Miami, where she established its royalty department.

More recently, she served as president of MusiCounts, a Los Angeles based consulting firm providing specialized services to the music industry, including the development and implementation of royalty administration systems. While working at MusiCounts, her responsibilities included managing the firm’s relationships with key independent record labels, production companies and distributors such as Six Degrees Records, Warner Music Group, including its Rhino Records division, eMusic, and others.