Roger Ames To Head EMI North America

As some have predicted for months, record industry veteran Roger Ames will head EMI North America with Jason Flom and other US label heads reporting directly to him.  Ames had already been advising the label for more than a year.

Roger Ames was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Music Group in August 1999, four months after he was appointed President of Warner Music International.  Upon leaving the Warner Music Group in August 2004 Mr Ames was appointed senior advisor to Time Warner and to EMI Music. Mr Ames began his career in the music industry with EMI UK in 1975.

In 1979, he joined PolyGram UK and in 1993 he was named Chairman and CEO of PolyGram UK, responsible for all of PolyGram’s activities in Ireland and the UK. Ames was named executive vice president of PolyGram and president of the PolyGram Music Group in 1996.