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Billboard Magazine John Janick President/COO, Interscope Geffen A&M INTERSCOPE.COM @INTERSCOPE NEWEST CHALLENGE At 35, John Janick has accomplished more than many execu- tives twice his age (see story, page 20). He founded indie Fueled by Ramen (Fall Out Boy, Paramore). Later he was handed the reins at Elektra (Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran and fun., which won Grammys this year for best new artist and song of the year). Now, nine months into heading Interscope Geffen A&M, Janick has scored wins on the single and album fronts. The former in- cludes multiplatinum hits by Will.i.am and Imagine Dragons; the latter includes Imagine Dragons' platinum album and Ken- drick Lamar's gold -certified debut set. IGA's run continues this year with Zedd and Robin Thicke (who earned his first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with smash hit "Blurred Lines"), anticipated al- bums from icons Eminem and Lady Gaga, and new signings ranging from British alt -rock band the 1975 to R&B/hip-hop newcomer Tiara Thomas. "Now that I'm getting the feel for ev- erything, what stands out for me is the great team we have and how healthy this company is," Janick says. "And that's what will make IGA even stronger in the years to come." -Gail Mitchell Alexander Ljung Founder/CEO, SoundCloud SOUNDCLOUD.COM @ALEXANDERLJUNG RISING CLOUD SoundCloud has grown into a near -ubiquitous platform for sound on the Internet. If you streamed audio in 2012-from a preview of Lou Reed's album with Metallica to bird recordings on a nature lover's blog-there's a good chance that Sound - Cloud hosted and streamed it. That impact earns Alexander Ljung, 31, a place on this list. His Berlin -based company, which has more than 100 employees and offices in London and San Francisco, keeps gaining momentum. The service has grown to 20 million -plus users-it's adding 1.5 million per month right now-after having just 1.2 million in the summer of 2010. In May it launched a redesign that adds social features and improves the comment system. That kind of growth has attracted serious investors. In January, the company announced an undisclosed Nir Seroussi photographed round of funding led by venture capital heavyweight Kleiner in Miami. Perkins Caufield & Byers and with the participation of GGV Capital. Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley analyst and current partner at Kleiner Perkins, now sits on SoundCloud's Nir board of directors. -Alex Pham Richard Lom Seroussi VP, SBS Entertainment SBSENTERTAINMENT.COM Managing Director, Sony Music U.S. Latin @SBSEVENTS SONYMUSICLATIN.COM LATIN TOURING FORCE CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS Richard Lom, 36, has worked in the music business from the it Seroussi, 37, a Berklee College of Music grad who's also a song- ground up and found his calling at SBS Entertainment, the writer, has been instrumental in signing marquee acts to Sony Miami -based concert promotion arm of SBS, where he was Music U.S. Latin since he was upped to his position in 2011. "Sign- promoted to his current post a year ago. With his business ing all these icons like Gloria Estefan, Prince Royce and Carlos savvy and entrepreneurial streak, Lom has been instrumental Vives are the biggest accomplishments," Seroussi says. "We are in the busi- in growing the business under senior VP Lucas Piria, develop- ness of content, and to be successful we need the best talent we can get." ing out -of -the box ideas that have taken SBS Entertainment Seroussi joined Sony's Latin operation in Los Angeles in 2004 and was largely from being a radio company that produced one-off festivals responsible for beefing up the company's regional Mexican roster, develop- to a full touring company. Most recently, Ricardo Arjona's 14 - ing acts like Los Cuates de Sinaloa and more recently, Gerardo Ortiz. But his show tour sold more than 112,000 tickets and grossed nearly biggest impact has been in taking a more direct role in signing and develop- $10 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. Lom just finished ing acts and crafting successful release strategies for a string of No. 1s on Carlos Vives' nine -city tour and is prepping for the upcoming Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart that in the past year include releases by September festival Calibash (18,000 tickets). Lom's innovations Romeo Santos, Vives and Draco Rosa. Seroussi has also solidified Sony's route include the implementation of Black Friday door -buster ticket toward generating brand partnerships and developing original content for sales, making SBS perhaps the first touring company to offer TV and multimedia. These include acting as executive producer of Romeo such deals. "Since we're small, we can experiment and get a lot Santos'"The King Stays King-Sold Out at Madison Square Garden" DVD and more creative, and we're constantly breaking the mold," he says. a new deal with MundoFox and CineLatino to produce TV action/drama series After selling 200,000 tickets in 2012, the 2013 year-end goal is based on corrido storylines and starring Sony Music artists. -Leila Cobo to reach the 315,000 -ticket milestone. -Leila Cobo 0 BILLBOARD I AUGUST 3, 2013 NIR SEROUSSI PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK GARCIA.
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