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Music Business Worldwide
February 18, 2021
Suhel Nafar, Vice President of Strategy & Market Development at EMPIRE
Independent label, distributor, and publisher EMPIRE is opening a division in the US to focus on West Asia, North Africa and its diaspora.
To head up the territory, EMPIRE has hired Suhel Nafar as Vice President of Strategy & Market Development.
Nafar will be based in San Francisco at EMPIRE’s headquarters and joins the global team as Ghazi Shami’s company continues its overseas expansion.
Most recently, Nafar worked at Spotify as the Global Lead of Arab Music & Culture helping to build and launch in West Asia and North Africa, including an initiative of international curation for the largest cultures in the world.