11/19/2022
Meet one of our 2022 Apollo Award recipients, Susan C. Genco, Co-President, The Azoff Company!
Susan is Co-President of The Azoff Company where her responsibilities include oversight and management of a diverse portfolio of entertainment companies along with the company’s strategic and legislative efforts. The Azoff Company includes interests in Full Stop Management, Giant Music, Global Music Rights, Iconic Artists Group, and Oak View Group, among others. In addition, Susan is an adjunct professor at The UCLA School of Law where she has taught for over ten years and is a founder of the Music Industry Clinic.
Prior to joining The Azoff Company, Susan held a variety of executive positions including Executive Vice President, Global Music Rights; Head of Business Affairs & Music, Guitar Hero, a division of Activision/Blizzard; Head of Business Affairs, Warner Bros. Records; Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & Senior Vice President, Operations, Capitol/EMI; and Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at Arista Records under the tutelage of Clive Davis.
Susan is proud to have been featured in Billboard Magazine’s “Women in Music” as Executive of the Year and Hall of Fame as well as featured in Billboard Magazine’s “Power 100.” And humbled to have received the Gary Stewart Entertainment and Integrity Award from L.A.A.N.E. and, along with her husband, the Founders Award from Liberty Hill.
Currently, Susan serves on the following boards: KCRW Foundation Board; Advisory Committee for the Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA; Entertainment Law Initiative Executive Committee for The Recording Academy (former Chair) and Music Artists Coalition (Treasurer). In addition, Susan is a member of the Wellesley Business Leadership Council, and a Founder & Co-Chair of The XX Fund.
Susan received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A., Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa, in Economics from Wellesley College where her studies included one year at the London School of Economics.
We hope to see you at the Catalina on Thursday, December 1st. Sign up here, https://theccc.org/events/2022-ccc-holiday-party-apollo-awards/, with many thanks to our wonderful sponsors 5 Alarm Music, Angry Mob Music Group and SESAC!