Gautam Srivastava Email Address

Head of People

Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly-owned record operations or licensees in 63 countries around the world. Its businesses also include Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's largest global music publishing operations. Universal Music Group consists of record labels Decca Record Company, Deutsche Grammophon, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Lost Highway Records, MCA Nashville, MCA Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Philips, Polydor, Universal Music Latino, Universal Records, and Verve Music Group as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. The Universal Music Group owns the most extensive catalog of music in the industry, which is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Strategic Marketing and Commercial Affairs (outside the U.S.). Universal Music Group also includes eLabs, a new media and technology division. Universal Music Group is a unit of Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company.

Senior human resources executive. Prior experience across management consulting, technology, and entertainment; multinationals, M&A, and startups; public and private. Trusted partner to the CEO and management team: prior operating roles outside HR; “first to jump in”; can frame broader business imperatives into clear organizational and people change initiatives. Runs HR from the outside, in. Committed to building cultures that are fair, collaborative, and about doing great things, together. At Blend Labs.