Silvia Montello becomes CEO of the British Association of Independent Music

The British Association of Independent Music (AIM) has appointed Silvia Montello as its new CEO.

Montello replaces Paul Pacifico, transitioning from her previous role as CEO of the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM).

She previously held senior positions at Universal Music Group, BMG and AWAL, and startup Blokur.

She also founded the music and marketing consultancy Voicebox Consulting in 2011, which works with charities, non-profit organizations and SMEs.

Montello is Trustee of the Help Musicians charity and Chairman of the Trustees of Music Minds Matter, Help Musicians’ dedicated mental health service to the UK music community as a whole.

She sits on the Advisory Board of Moving The Needle (UK), an educational platform to support women in the record industry.\

Montello has been an AIM member for several years and currently serves on AIM’s Small Labels Committee. Previously, he was a member of the Distribution Group advising on the Digital Distribution Switch Code initiative led by AIM COO Gee Davy.

“AIM will continue its commitment to ensure our independent creators and rightsholders get the maximum benefit and strive for a truly diverse and inclusive industry that nurtures great talent from all genres, backgrounds and identities.”

Silvia Montello, GOAL

Silvia Montello, new CEO of AIM, said: “I am delighted to be joining the team in the new year and honored to continue the great work that AIM has done since its inception to support and promote the UK’s independent music community .

“Our industry is evolving at an ever-increasing pace, bringing with it new opportunities around music consumption and creation, audience development, new technology solutions, as well as existing and future challenges that our community must overcome together.

“AIM will continue its commitment to ensure our independent creators and rightsholders get the maximum benefit and strive for a truly diverse and inclusive industry that nurtures great talent from all genres, backgrounds and identities.”

Well known to many of our members, Silvia has been an active participant and committed member of the independent community for many years and will be a fantastic leader for AIM.”

Nadia Khan, TARGET

Nadia Khan, Chair of AIM, added: “On behalf of my colleagues on the AIM Board, I am pleased to welcome Silvia Montello to the team. Well known to many of our members, Silvia has been an active participant and committed member of the independent community for many years and will be a fantastic leader for AIM.

“Her extensive industry background, contact base, business development skills, passion for diversity and inclusion and vision for the future bring new leadership to AIM.

Khan added: “It has been an honor to lead the recruitment process and a big thank you to Kate Reilly for all of her invaluable support. It was important to me that we conduct a fair and transparent process and that we deal with a diverse and broad spectrum of candidates.

“From the start I have set diversity goals and personally encouraged a variety of candidates to apply, including Silvia as I admired her work in the industry. I am very excited about this new chapter for AIM and look forward to working with Silvia in her new role as CEO.”

AIM’s outgoing CEO, Paul Pacifico, added, “I am leaving AIM in the hands of an amazing and knowledgeable team who always go the extra mile for the independent music community.

“I know that Silvia’s team will take the lead to continue the important work of AIM in supporting and empowering the world’s leading creative entrepreneurs in the UK independent community. I look forward to working with Silvia to help her take off and to see the success that undoubtedly awaits her in the role.”

Ben Turner & Kurosh Nasseri, Co-Founders & Co-Chairs of AFEM, said: “We would like to congratulate Silvia on this landmark appointment for her but also for our electronic music genre.

“It is amazing to see such an influential organization as AIM looking to our sector and indeed our own trade association AFEM for their next leading independent music company as a whole. Electronic has become the second most popular genre in the UK and we see this appointment as valuable for future voting on some very pressing issues we are all facing. We would like to thank Silvia for her valuable contribution to AFEM in her short time with us.”music business worldwide