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Universal Music Group CEO and leadership

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Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Executive Michael Stewart is the Universal Music Group's CEO. Universal Music Group has 8,319 employees, of which 35 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Universal Music Group executive team is 51% female and 49% male.
  • 61% of the management team is White.
  • 16% of Universal Music Group management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 9% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Executive Michael Stewart

Chief Executive Officer

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Executive Michael Stewart is a Distribution Manager at Record Union, Chief Executive Officer at UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, and Songwriter at BMI and is based in New York, New York. He studied at Temple University.

David Gould

Board Member

Sir Lucian Grainge

Board Member

Sir Lucian Charles Grainge (born 29 February 1960) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group. Over the course of his career, he has worked with artists including Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Eurythmics, Rihanna, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Take That, Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Jamie Cullum and Andrea Bocelli. Grainge has worked in the music business for his entire career. Billboard magazine named Grainge as the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s, and the first-ever Executive of the Decade.

Anna Jones

Board Member

Antoine Fievet

Board Member

Boyd Muir

EVP , Chief Financial Officer & President of Operations

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Boyd Muir is a music industry executive and the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Universal Music Group.

Cathia Lawson-Hall

Board Member

James Mitchell

Board Member

Judy Craymer

Board Member

Luc van Os

Board Member

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David Gould

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David Gould

Board Member

Sir Lucian Grainge

Board Member

Sir Lucian Charles Grainge (born 29 February 1960) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group. Over the course of his career, he has worked with artists including Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Eurythmics, Rihanna, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Take That, Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Jamie Cullum and Andrea Bocelli. Grainge has worked in the music business for his entire career. Billboard magazine named Grainge as the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s, and the first-ever Executive of the Decade.

Anna Jones

Board Member

Antoine Fievet

Board Member

Cathia Lawson-Hall

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James Mitchell

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Judy Craymer

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Luc van Os

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Manning Doherty

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Vincent Vallejo

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Universal Music Group leadership demographics

Universal Music Group gender distribution in management team

  • The Universal Music Group executive team is 51% female and 49% male.
  • Universal Music Group is 45% female and 55% male company-wide.
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Male
49%
Company-wide: 55%
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51%
Company-wide: 45%

Universal Music Group executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Universal Music Group executive officers is White.
  • 61% of the management team is White.
  • 16% of Universal Music Group's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 53% of employees are White.
  • 21% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of employees are Asian.
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A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2023
Pros of working at Universal Music Group

Haven't started

Cons of working at Universal Music Group

Have a chance of being the the 1% African Americans and give me opportunity to successful succeed in music industry without subjecting to seen of a African American women in music industry today, which means corporate a options with education give kids faith and knowing go to school and get a degree it the same if not better salary and all the perks of music as we need and is the core of the world thank

Universal Music Group benefits

Music

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A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2021
Pros of working at Universal Music Group

love the industry, the people, the artists and music

Cons of working at Universal Music Group

senior leadership operates in a vacuum and old school. this could be such a better company to work at.

Universal Music Group benefits

fav perk is lots of concerts and pop up events

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Universal Music Group may also be known as or be related to Decca Records (USA business) (1934–1971) MCA Records (1971–1989) MCA Music Entertainment Group (1989–1996), UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, Umg Commercial Services, Universal Music Group, Universal Music Group Inc and Universal Music Group, Inc.