After 54 Years On the NMPA Board, Ralph Peer II Becomes Chair

The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) has announced that Ralph Peer II, enforcement seat of peermusic, has been elected seat of its committee of directors. Additionally, Golnar Khosrowshahi, founder/CEO of Reservoir, has been elected the board’s vice chair.

After 54 years serving connected the NMPA board, Peer takes implicit the apical station from Irwin Z. Robinson, who retired from the relation successful the past year. During his career, Peer has guided 1 of the astir iconic and agelong moving independent, family-owned publishers successful the euphony business, serving some arsenic its CEO and present arsenic enforcement seat astatine antithetic points successful his tenure. Peermusic, archetypal founded nether the sanction Southern Music Publishing successful 1928, present boasts 39 offices successful 32 countries, and it looks aft good implicit a cardinal titles, either done ownership oregon administration. His daughter, Mary Megan Peer, present holds the CEO post, marking the 3rd procreation successful the household to look aft the company, which regularly ranks among the apical 10 publishers by marketshare connected Billboard’s Publishers Quarterly.

For his decades of leadership, Peer was awarded the NMPA’s and the Music Publisher Association’s (MPA) Lifetime Achievement Award. He was the inaugural recipient of the ICMP Award for outstanding publication to planetary euphony publishing, a recipient of the Music Publishers’ Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has been honored arsenic “Music Maker of the Year” astatine MIDEM.

Khosrowshahi, the recently elected vice chair, has besides spent overmuch of her publishing vocation connected the NMPA committee of directors. As founder/CEO of Reservoir, an autarkic euphony publisher, founded successful 2007, Khosrowshahi’s institution was aboriginal to spot the worth successful the euphony catalog market. Now the location to apical catalogs similar De La Soul, Danny Brown and Louis Prima and frontline hitmakers similar Offset and Steph Jones (“Espresso” and “Nonsense” by Sabrina Carpenter), Khosrowshahi became the archetypal pistillate to pb a publically traded autarkic euphony institution successful the U.S. erstwhile she took the institution nationalist successful 2021.

Khosrowshahi besides sits connected the NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation committee of directors and served arsenic committee seat of Yo-Yo Ma’s philharmonic collective, Silkroad. In 2022, she was elected to the committee of directors for the New York Philharmonic.

Other existent committee members for the NMPA see the pursuing publishing executives: Jon Platt, Jody Gerson, Jeff Pachman, Chip McLean, Jody Klein, Carianne Marshall, Laurent Hubert, Mike Molinar, Keith Hauprich, Tyler Bacon, Neil Gillis, Larry Mestel, Marti Cuevas, Jim Selby, Jon Singer and Ben Katovsky. Hitmakers Sean Douglas and Laura Veltz besides service connected the board, providing practice for songwriters.