There’s been an executive shuffle at Spotify.
Monica Damashek, who previously served as the company’s North American lead of international music, has been named head of label partnerships North America, according to an internal memo obtained by Billboard. She succeeds Vic Trubowitch, who has moved to the music product strategy team for artist expression at the streaming giant.
Concurrent with the shifts, Spotify’s label partnerships team will now be called music partnerships and audience — an umbrella that includes label partnerships, artist partnerships and songwriter publisher relations — and fall under the purview of global head of artist partnerships Joe Hadley. Day-to-day responsibilities for each of the teams will remain the same under the new arrangement.
Damashek, who has been with Spotify for nine years, was hired in 2014 as global director of strategic marketing and has worked across various departments. Prior to Spotify, she worked in editorial roles at Billboard and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
Trubowitch was hired at Spotify in 2017 as manager of artist & label marketing, eventually landing in the head of label partnerships role in December 2021. He was named to Billboard‘s 40 Under 40 list last year. Prior to boarding the streamer, he served in various roles at BMG, Vagrant Records and Warner Bros. Records.
Hadley, previously a powerful booking agent at CAA whose clients included Beyoncé, A$AP Rocky and Stormzy, joined Spotify last year after departing the agency, where he served as co-head of the global hip-hop/R&B touring group.
