Music publishing

In 1973 Solleveld went to work for Chappell Music in New York as assistant to the

international manager. Promoted when his boss returned to France, he eventually

became the general manager of Intersong USA. During this time, he also acted as

international manager for Chappell Music. In 1977, he accepted a London post to

head the Intersong International Desk, making deals outside the country of origin

and North America for all worldwide Intersong agencies.

Solleveld returned to the United States in 1980 and went to work for CBS Songs

as the liaison between the international and domestic divisions. A year later he moved

to RCA Records to rebuild their publishing company after an ill-advised sale of their

United States catalog. As publishing was not considered important at RCA at the

time, most of his duties involved looking after the licensed labels, among them Jive,

Motown, and Virgin, for the Latin American and Asian markets. In 1984, he was

named president of Toronto-based Sunbury-Dunbar Music Publishing (now BMG),

RCA's Canadian music publishing arm. There he became involved in the Canadian

Country Music Association and served as secretary/treasurer of the organization.

RCA Music Publishing became BMG Music Publishing in 1986, and two years

later, Solleveld was asked to return to New York to help organize the company's

various international activities into one cohesive musical publishing effort. Serving as

vice president of International BMG Publishing, worldwide, Solleveld had specific

responsibilities over Canada, Spain, Latin American, and Eastern Europe.

Solleveld left his post with BMG in 2002, to join performing rights organization

BMI as vice president, international. Eight months later he was promoted to senior

vice president, international. Solleveld oversees all of BMI's international activities

with an emphasis on relationships with foreign performing rights organizations. The

key to his success is an ability to establish relationships with songwriters, composers,

and music publishers around the world. www.bmi.com

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT · VICE PRESIDENT · DIRECTOR

(INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION)

JOB OVERVIEW

The focus here is to facilitate communication between the company's American

office and their foreign offices and affiliates throughout the world. They should

ensure that each has the necessary paperwork to protect copyrights and collect appro-

priate earnings of both the firm's catalog and songs that they subpublish outside the

United States. Administrators also provide notification of new writer and artist sign-

ings, catalog acquisitions, and newly released records, film, television, and advertising

that contain songs published by the firm. They should interface with owners of cata-

logs the firm subpublishes.

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