What Happened?
Santa Monica, CA-based Universal Music Group Appointed Ty Roberts as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Universal Music Group, Inc. is an American-French worldwide music corporation that operates as a subsidiary of Paris-based French media conglomerate Vivendi. UMG also owns Universal Music Publishing Group, a music publishing group.
About the Person
Ty Roberts most recently served as Gracenote's Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Music, with oversight of a global team responsible for planning, strategy, and delivery of next-generation music data and technology solutions to many of the largest players in the digital music business including Apple, Sony, Spotify, Amazon, Microsoft and many others. In 1998, Roberts joined Gracenote, the result of a merger between CDDB and ION, a multimedia music label that was part of Bertelsmann Music Group. Roberts was a Co-Founder and CEO of ION, and become a Co-Founder and CTO of Gracenote after the merger. Over the course of his tenure at Gracenote, now a Tribune Media subsidiary, it became the leading entertainment data company in the world powering music and video services globally. During its growth, Roberts developed deep relationships and experience working with media companies, digital services, consumer electronics manufacturers and the automotive industry. Before Gracenote, Roberts held a number of senior positions at established and start-up technology companies, including helping to develop QuickTime at Apple, where he wrote code and worked with recording artists and songwriters including Michael Penn, Juliana Hatfield and other artists to develop multimedia videos.
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