Veteran PR strategist Dvora Englefield is joining WME as a lover and head of music artist approach, acquiring arrive more than from The Lede Corporation as companion and head of the songs division wherever she represented Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes.
In her recently-established part, Englefield will assist identify and optimize new company options, strategic partnerships and customer products and services for WME’s music roster. “Dvora is a driving force in the audio business, liable for guiding the occupations of innumerable artists by way of her combination of creativity, strategic counsel and deep business interactions,” mentioned Lucy Dickins and Kirk Sommer, co-heads of WME’s songs division, in a statement.
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Englefield joined The Lede Business in 2018 just after communications perform at 42 West for songs shoppers. “I will overlook my Lede relatives but am thrilled that with my new chapter we will all nonetheless get to collaborate,” she said in her individual assertion as WME and The Lede Firm open up the doorway to working alongside one another as Englefield can take on a new position at the Hollywood expertise company from May possibly 9.
In advance of foremost the music department at 42West, Englefield ran the new music department at BWR. WME’s music purchasers that took house trophies at the current Grammys consist of Silk Sonic, most effective new artist Olivia Rodrigo, Chris Stapleton, Jazmine Sullivan and the Foo Fighters.
Englefield is the most recent hire for WME as it expands its target on tunes. The expertise agency lately extra to its tunes division Zach Iser and Caroline Yim introduced in as co-heads of hip-hop / R&B from CAA, Craig D’Souza as a partner, based in the Uk, Andy Duggan, also primarily based in London, and agent Whitney Boateng to concentrate on hip-hop and R&B artists.