Maarten Steinkamp has been appointed Interim President of Armada Music Group, effective immediately.<\/p>\n
Armada Music Group is the parent company of Armada Music, BEAT Music Fund, and Armada Music Publishing.<\/p>\n
The company said that Steinkamp\u2019s work will focus primarily on preparing the company for its \u201cnext phase\u201d and ensuring Armada\u2019s back-end departments are equipped to support its \u201ccontinued growth\u201d.<\/p>\n
He will report directly to Maykel Piron, CEO of Armada Music Group<\/strong>, and is based in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n Steinkamp has worked closely with Armada as an interim board consultant for the past several months.<\/p>\n He has previously held several senior leadership roles, including Managing Director of BMG Benelux, EVP of BMG ASEAN in Singapore, CEO of BMG Germany in Munich.<\/p>\n Steinkamp also served as President of BMG International in New York, where he was also a member of the global executive board.<\/p>\n He later served as chairman and CEO of London-based Sony BMG Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cMaarten\u2019s leadership, strategic insight, and deep understanding of our industry is second to none.”<\/p>\n MAYKEL PIRON<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cMaarten\u2019s leadership, strategic insight, and deep understanding of our industry is second to none,\u201d said Maykel Piron, CEO of Armada Music Group.<\/p>\n \u201cWith Maarten\u2019s continued support, I\u2019m confident we will unlock new opportunities together and take Armada Music Group to even greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n “I’M THRILLED TO BEGIN THIS NEW CHAPTER with Armada at such an exciting time for the company and our entire industry.”<\/p>\n Maarten Steinkamp<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Steinkamp added: “I\u2019m thrilled to begin this new chapter with Armada at such an exciting time for the company and our entire industry.” Armada Music <\/strong>was founded by Armin van Buuren.<\/strong> The company launched the BEAT Music Fund in 2023 which it described as the first-ever dance music investment fund and aimed for $100 million in acquisitions over two years.<\/p>\n In early 2024, the company reorganized itself <\/a><\/strong>under a new parent company \u2013 Armada Music Group<\/strong> \u2013 and revised that number to $500 million<\/strong> over the next five years.<\/p>\n Some of the BEAT Music Fund\u2019s<\/strong> recent transactions include music rights deals with Tiga<\/strong>, producer Kevin Saunderson<\/a>,<\/strong> Markus Schulz, Robbie Rivera<\/strong>, Grammy-nominated DJ and producer Jax Jones<\/a>, Amba Shepherd, VIVa MUSiC, Sola Records<\/a>,<\/strong> NYC-based house label King Street Sounds<\/a>, Chocolate Puma<\/a><\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n BEAT, which stands for \u201cBest Ever Acquired Tracks,\u201d is backed by Pinnacle Financial Partners<\/strong>, a Nashville, Tennessee-based financial services firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steinkamp has worked closely with Armada as an interim board consultant for the past several months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6911,"featured_media":231618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI look forward to working alongside this passionate team and building on the incredible work they\u2019re doing in the dance space.\u201d<\/p>\n
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