Music business veteran Stephen White has been named Chief Product Officer at impartial label, distributor, and writer EMPIRE.
White will oversee all information and know-how on the firm and will probably be accountable for its strategic product course, together with product imaginative and prescient, innovation, design, and growth.
Beforehand Chief Govt Officer at StageIt Corp, White joined StageIt in Might 2020.
At StageIt, he helped lead the corporate to its sale to VNUE in July 2021.
The deal added over $9 million in income and “tons of of 1000’s” of reside music followers and complementary know-how to VNUE’s portfolio, VNUE said on the time.
Earlier than becoming a member of StageIt, White was the Chief Govt and Chairman of the Board for Dubset Media Holdings.
The enterprise was offered to PEX in February 2020 in a deal price over $25m.
From 2012-2014, White served as Chief Govt and President at Gracenote.
He held quite a few roles for the corporate throughout 14 years, and performed a task in rising Gracenote from a start-up, specializing in music applied sciences and knowledge, right into a digital leisure firm.
In his position as President, White oversaw firm technique and operations, and was accountable for rising Gracenote’s core enterprise.
Earlier than becoming a member of Gracenote, White was Vice President of Product for streaming music start-up Echo.com.
Previous to Echo.com, White was a Senior Director and Govt Producer for CKS, a media consultancy primarily based in Silicon Valley, the place he led groups within the creation of net properties such because the Apple on-line retailer and GM.com.
“EMPIRE has constantly been an innovator and chief in using know-how to assist artists.”
Stephen White
Stephen White, mentioned: “EMPIRE has constantly been an innovator and chief in using know-how to assist artists.
“I’m thrilled to affix such a tremendous workforce to proceed to develop the EMPIRE platform and supply artists, composers, and companions with essentially the most superior and progressive platform within the business.”
“With a confirmed observe file, White will take our product workforce to the following stage.”
Ghazi Shami, EMPIRE
Ghazi Shami, EMPIRE CEO and Founder, added: “With a confirmed observe file, White will take our product workforce to the following stage.
“He’s a confirmed chief bringing a wealth of expertise and relationships within the music know-how area. I’m assured he will probably be very instrumental within the progress of the whole lot EMPIRE.”Music Enterprise Worldwide
