Bob Valentine is a music business veteran and, since July 2023, the CEO of Concord.<\/p>\n
Prior to becoming CEO of Concord<\/a>, Valentine was President of the Nashville-headquartered music company, which operates across music publishing, recorded music, and theatricals.<\/p>\n Bob Valentine joined Norman Lear\u2019s Act III Communications in 1999 when it acquired Concord Records.<\/p>\n While working for Lear and his business partner, Hal Gaba, Valentine helped to negotiate the purchase of Concord Records, and subsequently served as liaison between Act III and Concord.<\/p>\n In 2001, Valentine left Act III to join Fox Entertainment\u2019s television business development group, focusing on corporate M&A and business development initiatives at Fox and its parent company News Corp.<\/p>\n In 2005, he returned to Concord to become CFO and served in that capacity at the company until 2021, when he was named President<\/a>.<\/p>\n In July 2023<\/a>, Valentine became CEO of Concord, succeeding Scott Pascucci.<\/p>\n Bob Valentine started his career as a financial analyst in Morgan Stanley\u2019s investment banking division.<\/p>\n He received his M.B.A. from U.C.L.A.\u2019s Anderson School of Management and his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n During his career spanning nearly two decades at Concord and its predecessor entities, Valentine has helped to deploy over $1.5bn of equity and debt capital to acquire music and theatrical rights and has been a key contributor in driving Concord\u2019s growth from an $8m\/year jazz record label to a $500m+ revenue global music company.<\/p>\n Speaking to Music Business Worldwide in a 2023 interview<\/a>, Valentine said: “I\u2019ve always thought of myself as helping to build a real music business here [at Concord], because that\u2019s what we are \u2013 not a fund, a real music business, running its own global labels, music publishing operation, theatrical licensing company, and a fledging film & TV division that happens to be backed by a pension fund.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve always thought of myself as helping to build a real music business here [at Concord], because that\u2019s what we are \u2013 not a fund, a real music business.”<\/p>\n Bob Valentine, Concord<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n “My intention is to focus on the efforts of this company to be a creative force.”<\/p>\n He added: “Concord really doesn\u2019t need to do any deals for scale anymore, but if a certain catalog or opportunity is of such significant quality or fills a gap we don\u2019t feel we have covered we\u2019ll potentially be interested. But we\u2019re in no hurry to buy things just for the sake of growing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bob Valentine is a music business veteran and, since July 2023, the CEO of Concord. Prior to becoming CEO of Concord, Valentine was President of the Nashville-headquartered music company, which operates across music publishing, recorded music, and theatricals. Bob Valentine: Career history Bob Valentine joined Norman Lear\u2019s Act III Communications in 1999 when it acquired … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":160188,"template":"","class_list":["post-161925","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/161925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/161925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBob Valentine: Career history<\/h6>\n
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\nBob Valentine: Professional philosophy<\/h6>\n