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Warner Music Group Names Howard Singer Vice President Technology

December 19, 2002 1:18pm

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NEW YORK, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Warner Music Group (WMG) named Howard Singer vice president technology. Based in New York, Singer will report to WMG senior vice president and chief information officer, Tsvi Gal.

Singer joins WMG from Rightscom, Limited, where he served as a senior consultant, providing business strategy and technical expertise to major media companies, technology providers, and other enterprises working with e-commerce and digital rights management. In his new capacity, Singer will oversee systems, networks, and other infrastructure related technology for WMG's global information services team. In addition, he will lead the recently created Digital Technology Group, which supports technical aspects of WMG's on-line music and new media initiatives.

In making the announcement, Gal said, "I am thrilled to welcome an executive with Howard's technical and entertainment management experience to WMG. His expertise will prove invaluable to Warner Music as we continue to maintain our competitive advantage in the music technology space."

Prior to his work at Rightscom, Limited, from 1999 to 2001, he served as senior vice president, marketing and product strategy at Reciprocal, where he was involved in the implementation of services for secure digital distribution of media. During his tenure at Reciprocal, the company developed more than 100 clients and processed millions of transactions for the sale and distribution of protected content. In 1997, he co-founded a2b music and held the position of CTO, where he led the development of a secure digital distribution service for the music industry. Before a2b music, Singer spent 20 years at AT&T, where he held technical and business positions on product development teams responsible for the production of speakerphones, cellular phones, smart cards and videogame peripherals.

Singer holds more than a dozen U.S. patents in video processing, consumer electronics and multimedia. He holds a BS degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a PhD in operations research from Cornell University.

About Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group is home to some of the world's leading record companies, including The Atlantic Group, Elektra Entertainment Group, Rhino Entertainment, Warner Bros. Records Inc. and Word Entertainment. The company's Warner Music International operates in more than 70 countries through various subsidiaries, affiliates and non-affiliated licensees. Warner Music Group also includes one of the world's leading music and print music publishers, Warner/Chappell, and WEA, Inc., which is composed of three companies, WEA Corp., WEA Manufacturing, and Ivy Hill. Warner Music Group is an AOL Time Warner company. For more information about Warner Music Group visit our corporate site at http://www.wmg.com .
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