WIN Names Board, Unveils New International Structure

Worldwide Impartial Community (WIN), the group that brings collectively native unbiased music commerce our bodies throughout the globe, faucets 5 new board members, whereas ratifying the reappointment of its chair and treasurer.

Dario Draštata (Dallas Data, Croatia), Fran Sandoval (IMICHILE, Chile) and Marty Ro (Sound Republica, South Korea) are among the many new administrators named to the 20-strong WIN board, introduced Thursday, Feb. 8. The opposite new faces are Alejandro Varela (S-Music, Argentina) and Sridhar Swaminathan (SIMCA, India), who’re named as observers.

The commerce affiliation provides “heat thanks” to outgoing members Francesca Trainini (PMI, Italy), Jeffrey Chiang (Fluxus, South Korea) and Oliver Knust (IMICHILE, Chile).

Renewed annually, the board is comprised of unbiased music firm and commerce affiliation representatives from world wide, appointed by WIN members on a geographical foundation.

The group rings within the modifications this 12 months by creating a brand new worldwide construction primarily based on 5 regional blocs: North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australasia, a transfer that displays “variety of languages, genres and cultures that make up its membership,” reads an announcement.

In the meantime, Zena White (Partisan Data, U.S.) and Maria Amato (AIR, Australia) are reappointed as chair and treasurer, respectively. Melbourne-based Amato, the CEO of the Australian Impartial File Labels Assn., in 2022 turned WIN’s first feminine chair and the group’s first from the southern hemisphere.

“I’m grateful to be given the chance to proceed as chair of WIN and my congratulations go to our 5 new board members,” feedback White in an announcement. “Our North Star is to strengthen the sector by having an unbiased music commerce affiliation in all nations the place there’s a business music enterprise. The brand new regional bloc construction displays our goal to attach as many territories as we are able to. I’m notably pleased with WIN’s work with teams in Latin America and Asia-Pacific on their particular agendas, in addition to including associations in India, Paraguay and Bulgaria to our membership.”

The group launched in 2006 and have become a commerce affiliation in 2016, serving as a world coordination and help physique for the unbiased sector, and representing hundreds of music corporations and professionals worldwide. Its focus is on long-term growth and sustainability.

Annually, WIN commissions and publishes the WINTEL market report that measures the financial and cultural influence of the unbiased music sector globally.

Subsequent up, White and Noemí Planas, CEO of WIN, will be part of reps from member associations in different Latin American nations to go to Guadalajara, Mexico in late February and early March for the FIM GDL convention and to host an unbiased labels summit and WINHUB networking gathering.

WIN board for 2024:

North America

Garry West (Compass Data, U.S.)

Gord Dimitrieff (Aporia Data, Canada)

Jason Peterson (GoDigital Media Group, U.S.)

Richard Burgess (A2IM, U.S.)

Zena White (Partisan Data, U.S.)

Observer: Tony Kiewel (Sub Pop, U.S.)

Latin America

Francisca Sandoval (IMICHILE, Chile)

Sandra Rodrigues (ABMI, Brazil)

Observer: Alejandro Varela (S-Music, Argentina)

Europe