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Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy

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.

Michael Nash has worked at the forefront of media/tech convergence for over two decades. Labeled a 'visionary' by The Atlantic, he’s an entrepreneurial executive who has led a variety of new media enterprises and is recognized for playing a prominent role in shaping the digital music revolution.Nash currently serves as Universal Music Group’s Executive Vice President, Digital Strategy, overseeing the industry leader's digital business development activities around the world. As a member of UMG’s Executive Management Board, he works closely with all of the company’s operating units to provide a critical link between strategic direction and operational execution.Prior to joining Universal, Nash was a strategic advisor to Warner Music Group as well as several digital media startups. Nash served as an executive at WMG from 2000 to 2011, rising to the role of EVP, Digital Strategy and Business Development, responsible for WMG's global digital business planning, partnerships and new initiatives.Before joining Warner, Nash was Executive Director of the Madison Project, the music industry's first digital distribution trial (1999). He was founding CEO of Inscape, an interactive entertainment and games publishing joint venture between WMG and HBO that produced award-winning titles with artists such as William S. Burroughs, DEVO, Thomas Dolby and The Residents (1994-1997). And, he served as Director of The Criterion Collection, working closely with filmmakers and artists such as Robert Altman, David Bowie, Terry Gilliam and Louis Malle (1991-1994). Nash has art-world roots, with numerous publications and widely touring exhibitions to his credit. Summarizing his career arc, the editors of Give Them the Picture wrote, 'Nash used the interest he developed in emerging forms of digital culture while working as an art curator and critic, and became a pioneer of digital innovations in the business world.'