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Former CEO departs Warner as Sony BMG changes loom.(News)
Former Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Roger Ames has finally formally severed his ties with the major.
Musicweek.com broke the news last Friday, as he returned to London for the Notting Hill Carnival.
Ames, who joined the company when it was still owned by Time Warner back in 1999, has been acting in a consultancy role following its $2.6bn acquisition by a private investment group led by Edgar Bronfman Jnr last November. Now he has become a consultant to Time Warner, a move which prevents him from having any role with WMG.
Trinidad-born Ames rose to prominence reviving London Records during the Eighties and turning it into one of the UK's hippest boutique labels. After a spell as chairman of PolyGram UK he then rose to head PolyGram's international operations, before leaving the major following its acquisition by Seagram. He reemerged at Warner Music International, to which he had in the meantime sold London. He revived the company's US performance as well as boosting its international marketing operations, although he was twice thwarted in attempts to merge ...
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