Symphonic Distribution has promoted Nick Gordon to Chief Partnership Officer (CPO) and Randall Foster to Chief Inventive Officer (CCO).
Gordon joined Symphonic as Chief Consumer Officer and GM, New York in 2018.
Gordon joined the corporate a number of months after Symphonic raised $4 million in a Collection A spherical of funding.
In January 2022, the corporate raised $37 million in a Collection B spherical of funding.
Gordon beforehand constructed a world A&R and consumer growth workforce, recruited key executives, and helped “information the corporate by one of the aggressive intervals within the historical past of music distribution”, says Symphonic, together with his efforts “netting 40% yr over yr progress.”
As CPO, Gordon will deal with consumer progress, strategic partnerships and acquisitions, in addition to oversight into Symphonic’s Web3 and NFT technique.
Randall Foster, in the meantime, opened Symphonic’s Nashville places of work in April of 2019.
Since then, he has grown the footprint and headcount of Symphonic’s presence in Music Metropolis by bringing on board a Head of Consumer Advertising and Head of Youtube and UGC (Consumer Generated Content material), in addition to different key advertising and marketing and consumer administration positions.
Randall additionally oversees Symphonic’s sync licensing arm, Bodega Sync, in addition to the corporate’s YouTube and Consumer Generated Content material Monetization efforts.
His main targets, says the corporate, is to proceed acquisitions and distribution offers, strategic partnerships and oversight of rights administration at each Symphonic and Symphonic’s music publishing wing.
“I’m wanting ahead to steering the corporate by an thrilling new period in music.”
Nick Gordon
Nick Gordon, mentioned: “It’s been a pleasure to work with Jorge Brea, Randall Foster, and the complete Symphonic workforce to construct a real powerhouse model in distribution and advertising and marketing.
“As we see the continued consolidation of main label distributors, it’s important for the trade to have true unbiased choices, and Symphonic’s capabilities are actually world class, able to creating true world superstars.
“In my new function, I’m wanting ahead to steering the corporate by an thrilling new period in music, with the expansion of Web3, and the chance to kind deeper partnerships with labels and even different distributors.”
“My time at Symphonic has been essentially the most rewarding and gratifying time I’ve spent on this nice trade of ours.”
Randall Foster
Randall Foster, added: “My time at Symphonic has been essentially the most rewarding and gratifying time I’ve spent on this nice trade of ours.
“To see our Nashville operation flourish and have the chance to proceed to construct – this time with a deal with content material creation, publishing, acquisitions and many others is the fruits of a dream Jorge Brea and I began discussing 4 years in the past.
“To say I’m thrilled is an enormous understatement.”
Symphonic generated $12m in internet income in 2021.
The corporate is headquartered within the USA, and has expanded in to nations equivalent to Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Spain.
In Could 2021, Symphonic enlisted Tamsanqa Ngxeketo to steer a workforce based mostly in South Africa, consisting of A&R and Consumer Advertising companies, to safe key partnerships and aggregators targeted on Afrobeats, Gospel and Gqom.Music Enterprise Worldwide
