{"id":6834,"date":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/virgin-music-group-unveils-post-deal-leadership-gibson-ceo-steps-down\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"virgin-music-group-unveils-post-deal-leadership-gibson-ceo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/virgin-music-group-unveils-post-deal-leadership-gibson-ceo-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Music Group Unveils Post-Deal Leadership; Gibson CEO Steps Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginmusic.com\/\">Virgin Music Group<\/a> has outlined its post-acquisition leadership structure, and Gibson President and CEO Cesar Gueikian is stepping down, capping a week of significant executive changes across the music industry.<\/p>\n<h2>Virgin Music Group Restructures After Downtown Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Following the completion of its acquisition of Downtown Music, <strong>Virgin Music Group<\/strong> has organized into six global regions under co-CEOs <strong>JT Myers<\/strong> and <strong>Nat Pastor<\/strong>. <strong>Jacqueline Saturn<\/strong> will lead North America and global artist relations. The other regional presidents are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Victor Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>, Latin America<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Roden<\/strong>, Europe<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Roe<\/strong>, Asia, Middle East and Africa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nathan McLay<\/strong>, Australia and New Zealand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chief Operating Officer <strong>Pieter van Rijn<\/strong> will oversee a newly named global technology and product team, which includes incoming Chief Technology Officer <strong>Tom Allen<\/strong> and Chief Product Officer <strong>David Driessen<\/strong>. Former Downtown ALS president <strong>Ben Patterson<\/strong> will lead a new artist-focused venture in partnership with Virgin Music Group.<\/p>\n<h2>Gibson Begins Leadership Transition<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibson.com\/\"><strong>Gibson<\/strong><\/a> President and CEO <strong>Cesar Gueikian<\/strong> will exit on July 31 after a tenure focused on revitalizing the brand&#8217;s quality and artist relationships. Chief Commercial Officer <strong>Anne Rohosy<\/strong>, a Gibson executive since 2021 with prior roles at Nike and Levi Strauss, will serve as Interim President and CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor. Gueikian will remain involved as a board advisor and global artist ambassador.<\/p>\n<h2>SoundExchange Names General Counsel<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundexchange.com\/\"><strong>SoundExchange<\/strong><\/a> has appointed <strong>Michele Page<\/strong> as General Counsel. She joins from Peloton, where she managed legal affairs for music and content, and previously held roles at Nielsen, Vevo, EMI Music Publishing and Sony Music.<\/p>\n<h2>CMA Announces Ten Staff Changes<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Country Music Association (CMA)<\/strong> has made ten personnel moves in a single announcement. Five staff members were promoted into senior roles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emily Arvanitis<\/strong>, events<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kayleigh Bentley<\/strong>, member experience<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amanda Jilek<\/strong>, creative<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maddie Myers<\/strong>, digital<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nora Webb<\/strong>, business affairs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five new hires have joined the organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Samantha Alenius<\/strong>, accounting<\/li>\n<li><strong>Britney Buckwalter<\/strong>, media<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tarah Duarte<\/strong>, partnerships<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alec Staniul<\/strong>, insights<\/li>\n<li><strong>Craig Weaver<\/strong>, CRM (customer relationship management)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional Industry Moves<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Opry Entertainment Group<\/strong> has hired <strong>Stacey Cato<\/strong> as Senior Manager, Artist Relations. He brings more than 25 years of experience across music, television and digital, most recently at Paramount\/ViacomCBS where he oversaw talent programming for CMT&#8217;s major franchises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TKO Artist Management<\/strong> promoted <strong>Megan Pavlovic<\/strong> and <strong>Jordan Bernal<\/strong> to Artist Manager, both working with country acts including Jamey Johnson, and <strong>Ben Sojka<\/strong> to Manager, Publishing and Internal Operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate London<\/strong> joins <strong>Jay Siegan Presents<\/strong> as attorney, client and procurement relations in Los Angeles. She previously worked at Warner Records, Global Music Rights and Interscope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweat It Out<\/strong> and <strong>Central Station Records<\/strong> have expanded their team to 15, promoting <strong>Evie Preston<\/strong> to Head of Marketing and Communications, <strong>Matt Nugent<\/strong> to COO and A&amp;R (artists and repertoire), and <strong>Ben Miller<\/strong> to A&amp;R and Club Promotions Manager, alongside seven new hires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Orchard<\/strong> has expanded <strong>KGV Kiran Kumar<\/strong>&#8216;s role to Managing Director, India and Middle East, adding the region to the South Asian territory he has led since 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Soundmouse<\/strong>, the BMI-owned cue sheet platform, has named <strong>David McIninch<\/strong> as General Manager. He previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Transit Technologies and brings two decades of technology and finance experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/frontiers-label-group-names-new-uk-md-global-ar-vp-pr-head\/\"><strong>Frontiers Label Group<\/strong><\/a> promoted <strong>Leo Nicholas<\/strong> to Managing Director, UK; <strong>Aldo Lonobile<\/strong> to Vice President, Global A&amp;R; and <strong>Martina Palermo<\/strong> to Global Head of Public Relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Candace Braude<\/strong>, formerly of FUGA and Mexican Summer, has joined <strong>Green Tea Distribution<\/strong> as Artist Onboarding and Success Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Music Group announces its post-acquisition leadership team, Gibson&#8217;s CEO steps down, and other key music industry personnel changes.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[513],"tags":[1490,1831,1674,343,1830,200],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-careers-people","tag-cma","tag-executive-moves","tag-gibson","tag-music-industry","tag-soundexchange","tag-virgin-music-group","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Virgin Music Group Post-Deal Leadership, Gibson CEO Steps Down<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Virgin Music Group reveals six-region structure under co-CEOs JT Myers and Nat Pastor after Downtown Music acquisition. 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