Veteran PR executive Dvora Englefield is joining WME as a lover and head of audio artist approach. According to the announcement, in the newly designed function, Englefield will emphasis on means for WME to determine and increase new business options, strategic partnerships, and shopper services on behalf of the agency’s music division and shopper roster.
The Los Angeles-centered excecutive arrives from the Lede Enterprise, the best PR organization that she joined in 2018, exactly where she was husband or wife and head of the tunes division she will end out the thirty day period at the Lede and formally begin at WME on Might 9. Earlier, Englefield led the tunes department at 42West and ran the music division at BWR. More than the many years she has worked with Camila Cabello, John Legend, Sara Bareilles, Calvin Harris, Shawn Mendes, Nick Jonas, Wiz Khalifa, Adam Lambert, Alanis Morissette and Bebe Rexha, amid other individuals.
“Dvora is a driving force in the music enterprise, dependable for guiding the professions of innumerable artists through her mixture of creative imagination, strategic counsel and deep marketplace associations,” explained Lucy Dickins and Kirk Sommer, Co-Heads of WME’s Audio Division. “We glimpse forward to bringing her definitely distinctive skillset to our colleagues and consumers as we continue on to build out most effective in course providers for our music roster.”
“WME is the greatest of the very best,” stated Englefield. “As the audio and amusement landscapes proceed to change, I am past fired up for the opportunity to just take my working experience and transition into this new and exciting job. I’m honored to have the trust of this sort of an amazingly forward considering and progressive team. More special thanks to Kirk, Lucy and my longtime good friend and mentor John Marx.”
“The leadership at Lede has often been second to none since working day one particular,” said Englefield. “I’m so very very pleased of what we have created jointly both in our lifetime-lengthy friendships and in enterprise as an all-female led business and am for good grateful especially to have been on this journey with Amanda, Meredith, Sarah, Christine and Haeran. I will miss out on my Lede relatives but am thrilled that with my new chapter we will all nonetheless get to collaborate.”
“It delivers us terrific pleasure to see our dear buddy and long-time colleague just take her profession in an thrilling new route,” mentioned Lede co-CEOs Amanda Silverman, Meredith O’Sullivan, Sarah Rothman and Christine Su in a joint assertion. “Dvora is a very strategic and talented government and we are thrilled to continue on to collaborate with her in her new part.”
Other recent additions to WME’s Audio Division consist of Zach Iser and Caroline Yim who had been introduced in as co-heads of hip-hop / R&B from CAA, Craig D’Souza (Intercontinental Contemporary), Andy Duggan (Global Festivals) and Whitney Boateng (Hip-Hop and R&B), Dru Bass (Crossover), Bailey Greenwood (Digital Audio), Dana Jeter (Hip-Hop and R&B) and Randall Uritsky (Domestic Festivals).