Exceleration Music has appointed David Gorman as its Inventive Director, primarily based in Los Angeles.
Reporting to the corporate’s partnership group, Exceleration says Gorman will play a task throughout all inventive features of its enterprise.
The corporate additionally says he’ll assist to craft the route and execution of consumer-facing digital and bodily artwork, in addition to packaging and video tasks for the corporate’s varied label and artist companions.
Gorman most lately labored as International Catalog Programming Lead at Amazon Music, overseeing playlist programming and technique for music older than 18 months throughout all genres.
Throughout his profession, Gorman has additionally held roles at Rhino Leisure (Inventive Czar), and WEA Distribution (VP Inventive).
Gorman has based two inventive businesses — the primary being HackMart, an company that created merchandise and advertising and marketing campaigns for purchasers together with Sony Music, Common Music, Harmony Music Group, Tower Information, and The Rolling Stones, whereas working with iTunes, Google, and YouTube on large-scale curation and social media tasks.
He then based the 1021 Inventive company centered on curation and AI-based algorithms for purchasers together with Apple, YouTube, and Amazon.
Gorman’s profession as an artwork director noticed him win a Grammy award for his work on Beg, Scream & Shout! The Large Ol’ Field Of ‘60s Soul in addition to the primary ever Gold Clio Award introduced to a music bundle for his work on Keith Richards’ Discuss Is Low-cost thirtieth Anniversary field set.
His different artwork director credit embody releases by artists comparable to Willie Nelson, The Doorways, Sam Cooke, Johnny Money, Paul Simon, Merry Clayton, Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Grateful Lifeless and Miles Davis, together with relative newcomers The Zac Brown Band, Joss Stone, Dave Matthews Band, Phish and 311.
Gorman joins a lot of current appointments throughout Exceleration’s crew, together with Andreas Papson (Rights Administrator), Kat Schiller (Supervisor, International Streaming and New Releases), Jordan Cozza (Stock and Logistics Supervisor), Jenny Kilgen (Workplace Administrator), and Todd Rolfs (Royalty Administrator) – taking the crew to over 20.
The corporate was launched in January 2021 by former Harmony Music Group CEO Glen Barros.
The corporate’s Companions additionally embody Dave Hansen (former GM of Epitaph Information and Govt Chairman of Merlin), Charles Caldas (the primary CEO of Merlin), Amy Dietz (earlier GM of Ingrooves) and John Burk (Grammy-winning producer and former President of Harmony Information).
“I used to be immediately drawn to Exceleration’s mission, ardour, values, and unbiased, entrepreneurial spirit, all of which have been on full show since we first began speaking.”
David Gorman
David Gorman mentioned: “I used to be immediately drawn to Exceleration’s mission, ardour, values, and unbiased, entrepreneurial spirit, all of which have been on full show since we first began speaking.
“They crafted a task that permits me to work creatively throughout disciplines, throughout our label companions, and throughout the group, making this place a mixture and end result of the whole lot I’ve accomplished up so far.
“That I’m already obsessive about a lot of the music entrusted to us doesn’t damage, both.”
“Ardour for music and the folks behind it’s our driving pressure at Exceleration, and Dave Gorman completely encapsulates that, each personally and professionally.”
Dave Hansen, Exceleration Music
Dave Hansen, Accomplice at Exceleration Music added: “Ardour for music and the folks behind it’s our driving pressure at Exceleration, and Dave Gorman completely encapsulates that, each personally and professionally.
“He isn’t solely an exceptionally gifted government with a formidable monitor document, he has an infinite music mind and is already opening our eyes to new concepts and alternatives to amplify and honour the distinctive music we’re privileged to signify.
“We look ahead to his, and all of our current hires, contributions as we proceed to develop Exceleration Music into an incredible music firm.”
In July, Exceleration Music acquired the catalog of Dutch unbiased, Heroic Music Group.Music Enterprise Worldwide
