Bert Cloeckaert, currently senior VP of commercial affairs for Universal Music International (UMI), is being promoted to senior VP of commercial affairs and strategic marketing, effective Sept. 1.
Cloeckaert, who will report to UMI chairman/CEO Jorgen Larsen, is effectively
taking on the responsibilities of Wolf Urban, who plans to resign July 31 as senior VP of UM3, the UMI unit that markets Universal Music Group's catalog outside North America.
Cloeckaert joined the Universal group in 1992, when it was called PolyGram, as managing director of Belgium.