Billboard has appointed Mike Van as its first ever CEO, the publication introduced on Monday, selling Van from his earlier put up as president of the model.
Van first joined Billboard in 2018 following stints at Pandora, Electrical Arts and Complicated. He was appointed president in 2022. As CEO, Van will oversee each the publication’s editorial and enterprise divisions, with Billboard editor in chief Hannah Karp now reporting on to Van. Van will report back to Penske Media Company CEO Jay Penske. (PMC can also be the father or mother firm for The Hollywood Reporter.)
“Mike is a one-of-a-kind chief, visionary and accomplice,” Penske stated in an announcement. “His ardour for the Billboard model and clear imaginative and prescient for its future has all the time set him aside. Mike has fostered a collaborative surroundings with a group dedicated to constructing a formidable world enterprise – innovating and trailblazing at each stage. It has been inspiring to look at Billboard’s seismic progress during the last a number of years and I stay up for seeing the model proceed to thrive underneath Mike’s management.”
As CEO, Billboard stated Van will oversee the model’s technique, income, enterprise operations, dwell experiences, worldwide licensing, and model partnerships. Apart from the publication and its industry-standard charts, Billboard additionally has notable dwell experiences just like the Billboard Music Awards, Billboard Latin Music Week and Billboard Girls in Music amongst others.
“It’s the honor of a lifetime to steer Billboard and the group,” Van stated in an announcement. “Collectively, now we have cultivated a tradition of excellence. What we’ve constructed during the last a number of years has been nothing wanting extraordinary, notably in a media panorama marked by contraction and consolidation. I’m deeply proud to hold this legacy ahead as we form the following 125 years by persevering with to have a good time artist and government achievements by way of our charts, content material, world IP enlargement and evolving our signature dwell experiences, cementing our place because the definitive voice of music enterprise and tradition.”
