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Joel Flatow is departing nan Recording Industry Association of America aft much than 30 years and is forming his ain strategical consulting firm.
Flatow has served arsenic elder vice president of creator and manufacture relations and main of West Coast operations for nan RIAA.
The caller firm. Flatow Strategies, will attraction connected nan intersection of policy, culture, exertion and nationalist impact, according to nan RIAA. Flatow will proceed to correspond nan RIAA connected nan West Coast and besides a slate of caller clients, including nan Luckman Fine Arts Complex astatine Cal State LA, The Creative Coalition, The Schramm Group, Center of Gravity Productions and Whitenoise Music Group.
Flatow first joined nan RIAA successful 1995, moving connected mobilizing creator and manufacture engagement astir nan transition of nan Digital Performance Right successful Sound Recordings Act. He established nan RIAA West Coast agency successful 2000, forming ties betwixt Los Angeles and Washington. In summation to events connected Capitol Hill and astatine awesome events for illustration governmental conventions and inaugurations, Flatow supported nationalist defense campaigns, and was recognized by Billboard for his activity connected LGBTQ+ initiatives.
Flatow said successful a connection that nan RIAA has been “my master location for truthful galore years done specified seismic alteration successful nan industry, and I americium profoundly grateful to everyone who has shaped that experience. My activity has ever been astir building spot and knowing and uncovering a measurement guardant to support artists and their teams. Flatow Strategies will transportation that activity guardant pinch organizations and leaders facing moments wherever policy, civilization and exertion are quickly evolving.”
RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier said successful a statement, “Joel was a cornerstone of our creator relations work, having opened and established our West Coast presence, strengthened coalitions crossed nan imaginative organization and helped guarantee that artists and euphony had a meaningful sound successful consequential argumentation debates.”
