Variety<\/em>\u2019s Hitmakers label of the year in 2022<\/a> and she and Kallman were honorees at the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Gala that same year; also in 2022 she was promoted to CEO of Atlantic Music Group. She began her career at Rush Management, working with Run-DMC, LL Cool J and others, before moving over to Def Jam Records and then, in 2004, Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\tLousada came up in the British dance-music scene of the 1990s and began his career by launching a distributor for DJs and label heads like DJ Shadow, James Lavelle and Gilles Peterson. He followed by running the international operation for the briefly thriving Rawkus hip-hop label (which included Rupert Murdoch\u2019s son James as a co-founder), then Australia-based Mushroom Records \u2014 signing his first massive act, Zero 7, featuring a singer named Sia \u2014 which was acquired by Warner Music in 2003, bringing Lousada into the company\u2019s fold. He rose through the ranks, becoming Atlantic U.K.\u2019s head of A&R, president and chairman by 2009, then chairman-CEO of Warner Music U.K., and in 2017 head of recorded music for Warner Music Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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