Lengthy-time Spotify government Bruno Crolot is leaving the music streaming firm.
Our sources inform us that Crolot, who’s at present Senior Director, Head of Worldwide Music on the platform, is leaving for a senior position at France-headquartered music firm Consider.
MBW has reached out to each Spotify and Consider for remark.
The widely-respected government, who is predicated in Paris, initially joined Spotify as Basic Supervisor for France and Benelux in 2016.
The place assigned Crolot the duty of defining and deploying Spotify’s growth technique in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Crolot was then promoted to Senior Director, Head of Worldwide Music on the platform 4 years later, in 2021, bringing his complete time spent at Spotify throughout the 2 roles to over eight and a half years.
In accordance with Crolot’s LinkedIn profile, as “A part of Spotify’s World Music management,” he has “[led] the globally distributed Worldwide Music workforce” with “useful reporting from native Music groups – 250+ staff spanning 180+ nations.”
Beneath his management, his workforce additionally “elevated engagement and consumption metrics for extra artists, residence and abroad, by way of devoted world packages specializing in discovery and export,” based on Crolot’s LinkedIn resume.
Crolot was beforehand Head of Midem – the B2B music tradeshow in Cannes, France – from 2010 to 2015.
Earlier than that, his twenty years of music business and digital leisure expertise noticed him work at Common Music, Noos, Orange and Sony Music.
Information of Crolot’s impending departure from Spotify arrives six months after one other senior Spotify government, Jeremy Erlich (previously World Head of Music) exited the music streamer.
Elsewhere at Spotify, in June 2024, Federica Tremolada, who had served as the corporate’s Managing Director in Southern and Japanese Europe since 2019, was promoted to Basic Supervisor for Europe.
Milan, Italy-based Tremolada succeeded Michael Krause, who left his place as Spotify’s GM for Europe after seven years.
Most lately, in March, Spotify appointed Netflix alumnus Chris Whiteley to the place of Managing Director for Northern Europe.Music Enterprise Worldwide
