Mondo.NYC Speaker
Laurent Hubert
Chief Executive Officer, Kobalt Music Group
Laurent joined Kobalt in 2016 as President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Today, he oversees Kobalt’s global publishing division and neighbouring rights’ divisions. Prior to joining Kobalt, he served as President, Marketing & Creative, at BMG, where he played a central role in reestablishing BMG as a global music powerhouse. Previously, he was the Worldwide COO for BMG Music Publishing.
A native of France, Laurent Hubert, has over twenty years of international general management experience including twelve years in senior management roles within the music publishing industry.
Under Hubert’s leadership at BMG, the company soared from a small independent music publisher to one of the largest music publishers in the world and the first new global player in the recordings business in decades.
Prior to BMG, Hubert was a partner at Parthian Strategies, a media advisory boutique. At Parthian, he worked on a number of catalog valuation assignments on behalf of financial sponsors.
Before joining the music industry, Hubert spent eight years in various marketing roles for Club Med where he spearheaded and directed many projects including opening new market segments and increasing brand visibility and sales.
He holds a management degree from the Ecole des Dirigeants & Createurs d’Entreprises in Paris, and a Master of International Affairs with a concentration in International Business and Finance from Columbia University in New York. Hubert is also a private pilot with over 1,500 hours of flying time.
Mondo 2024 Panels
The State of Indie Music Publishing
Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 5:00 PM
Music industry pundits often talk about the rise of independent artists when it comes to recorded music. Luminate’s most recent report confirms that by almost any metric indie artists are growing faster than their major label counterparts. Is the independent music publishing sector seeing the same trends? How are indie publishers grappling with DSP trends that devalue songs? In this wide-ranging discussion, we’ll hear from three of the biggest players in the music publishing sector on the state of the business from an independent point of view.