LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — German music company BMG announced the promotion of veteran publishing executive Marian Wolf to the role of Senior Vice President, Music Publishing, North America.
Based in Los Angeles, Wolf will take on oversight of BMG’s publishing A&R in New York, Nashville, and Canada, reporting to Thomas Scherer, recently appointed President, Global Catalog Recordings and Music Publishing, North America.
Wolf joined BMG in 2011 and was initially based in Berlin before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014. During his tenure with BMG, Wolf has held multiple senior roles, including Vice President, Global Writer Services & China in 2019, before being upped to Senior Vice President, Publishing & Chief of Staff in 2022.
In the last decade, Wolf played a significant role in signings or contract renewals with artists such as George Harrison, Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull, Riot Games, Jessie J, and Dave Gibson, among others, and maintaining relationships with partners such as Spotify, YouTube, and Apple, among others.
“With Marian’s expertise and success in the US and globally, he is the ideal leader for our North American music publishing business. We are confident he will continue to grow and transform the opportunities and digital services for our music publishing catalog clients, as well as frontline songwriter signings,” Scherer stated.
“I am excited to lead our North American publishing teams into this next chapter. Publishing continues to be a corner stone of BMG’s business and I am thrilled to continuously innovate the way we serve our songwriters and publishing clients as creative partners,” Wolf added.
