Christine Pepe has joined the Swiss music fintech firm Utopia Music as its VP, Enterprise and Authorized Affairs.

Pepe will report on to Paul Stuart, Chief Authorized Officer.

She can be primarily based within the New York Metro space.

Pepe joins Utopia from NBCUniversal, the place she centered on digital and know-how transactions and served as lead product counsel for CNBC’s subscription companies.

Previous to this, Pepe headed up Enterprise and Authorized Affairs at TIDAL, the place she negotiated and structured world music licenses and streaming integration partnerships, together with for the TIDAL/MTN Uganda growth.

Later, she served as business counsel to Twitter offering authorized recommendation from the preliminary levels of product growth to launch, together with for Twitter Blue (the Twitter subscription service).

Pepe spent over eight years with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the place she rose to VP, Enterprise and Authorized Affairs.

There, she was answerable for negotiating and structuring music licenses with digital streaming and OTT companies, broadcast and cable networks, cable operators, and radio stations.

Pepe additionally managed a number of ‘price court docket’ proceedings that established license charge constructions for varied rising digital companies, and suggested on copyright (together with DMCA) and associated digital legislation issues.

“We’re more than happy to welcome Christine to Utopia.”

Paul Stuart

Paul Stuart, stated: “We’re more than happy to welcome Christine to Utopia.

“Her numerous expertise working throughout a number of sectors of the Music Trade, together with assortment societies, streaming companies, and world media corporations, makes her ideally positioned to assist us understand our objective of servicing all sides of the Music Trade.”

“I’m very excited to hitch Utopia.”

Christine Pepe

Christine Pepe, added: “I’m very excited to hitch Utopia.

“Right here, I can mix my tech and music backgrounds, and contribute to the corporate’s mission to ship ‘Honest Pay for Each Play’ to deserving Creators.

“Via its progressive enterprise mannequin, Utopia is able to positively impression all the Music Trade and all gamers within the worth chain.”

Utopia hit 2022 working with a collection of firm acquisitions.

In January, the corporate expanded into bodily and digital music distribution by buying the UK-based distributor Correct Music Group.

On February 3, the acquired Liverpool-based music writer and publishing administration firm Sentric Music Group.

Later that month (February 22), UK-based distribution and companies supplier Absolute Label Providers additionally got here beneath the Utopia umbrella.Music Enterprise Worldwide