Gap Inc. Appoints UMPG CEO Jody Gerson to Board of Directors

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) president and CEO Jody Gerson has been named to Gap Inc.’s committee of directors, Gap announced Monday (Sept. 15).

Gerson, who joined UMPG successful 2015, is notable arsenic the archetypal pistillate CEO of a large euphony steadfast and the archetypal pistillate to seat a planetary euphony company. She has signed artists including Adele, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Coldplay and led the acquisition of catalogs from euphony legends similar Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond and Sting. She besides serves connected the boards of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Ancestry.com, Project Healthy Minds and the National Music Publishers Association. She’s a co-founder of the nonprofit She Is the Music.

“Jody is simply a taste unit successful her ain right,” said Richard Dickson, president/CEO of Gap Inc., successful a statement. “Her insights into fashiontainment — our level astatine the intersection of fashion, euphony and personage — are unmatched. At Gap Inc., we’ve ever believed that benignant is simply a signifier of storytelling, and Jody’s quality to amplify voices and signifier taste moments volition beryllium invaluable arsenic we proceed redefining what it means to beryllium an iconic, purpose-led location of brands.”

Added Mayo A. Shattuck III, seat of the committee astatine Gap Inc.: “Jody’s quality to link civilization and commerce is precisely what makes her specified a dynamic leader. Her imaginativeness and creativity volition assistance america fortify our brands’ resonance with the adjacent procreation of consumers.”

Said Gerson, “Gap Inc. has agelong been a taste icon, bridging fashion, music, and identity. I’m honored to articulation Gap Inc.’s Board of Directors and excited to bring my position and acquisition successful the originative industries to the table. Equally, I’m energized to enactment Richard Dickson’s imaginativeness and gully inspiration from Gap’s singular renaissance arsenic a marque that’s go synonymous with the civilization of music.”

Notably, Gap precocious made waves with its “Better successful Denim” commercialized featuring Katseye, which garnered much than 400 cardinal views and 8 cardinal impressions crossed platforms portion becoming the No. 1 hunt connected TikTok, according to a property release.