Ralph Peer II and Golnar Khosrowshahi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA) has elected peermusic Executive Chair Ralph Peer II<\/strong> to Chair of its Board of Directors. Golnar Khosrowshahi<\/strong>, Founder and CEO of Reservoir, has been elected Vice Chair. The election followed the retirement of former Board Chairman Irwin Z. Robinson.<\/p>\n Peer has served on the NMPA Board for 54 years. As an executive, he has become one of the most accomplished and respected figures in music publishing history. Under his leadership, peermusic has developed a global network of music publishing companies operating from 39 offices in 32 countries. With well over a million titles owned or administered, he directs the largest privately owned music publishing company of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n A lifelong advocate for the protection and crediting of copyright and lyric rights, Peer has been involved in every issue facing the music publishing industry over the past 50 years. He was the first music publisher to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from the NMPA, as well as the Music Publishers Association (MPA). He was the inaugural recipient of the ICMP Award for outstanding contribution to global music publishing; a previous recipient of the Music Publishers Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame; and was previously honored as Music Maker of the Year at MIDEM.<\/p>\n In 2018, Peer received France\u2019s top cultural honor \u201cOfficier dans l\u2019Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,\u201d recognizing his outstanding contributions to the arts in France and around the world.<\/p>\n Now serving as Vice Chair, Khosrowshahi has been an asset to the NMPA Board for over a decade. As Founder and CEO of Reservoir, she has built an award-winning independent music company headquartered in New York City with operations in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, Abu Dhabi and Mumbai.<\/p>\n Established in 2007, Reservoir is the first female-founded and led publicly traded independent music company in the U.S. Golnar is consistently named a Billboard<\/em> Power Player, and in 2022, she was recognized as Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Women in Music Executive of the Year and subsequently joined the Hall of Fame. She was honored as Music Week<\/em>\u2019s International Woman of the Year in 2023 and was named to Fast Company<\/em>\u2019s Most Creative People In Business, Forbes<\/em>\u2019 50 Over 50, Inc.\u2019<\/em>s Female Founders 250 and Variety<\/em>\u2019s New Power of New York and Power of Women lists. Reservoir has twice been awarded both Publisher of the Year at Music Business Worldwide<\/em>\u2019s The A&R Awards and Independent Publisher of the Year at the Music Week Awards.<\/p>\n Khosrowshahi also sits on the NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Board of Directors and served as Board Chair of Yo-Yo Ma\u2019s musical collective, Silkroad. In 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the New York Philharmonic.<\/p>\n
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