Elliot Grainge’s 10K Projects makes key executive appointments, including General Counsel and CFO

10K Projects, the Los Angeles-based label based in 2016 by Elliot Grainge, simply introduced three govt appointments.

Blake Brown-Grakal has been promoted to Common Counsel, Samuel Cohen has been promoted to the newly created position of Common Supervisor on the label and Max Gore has been named Chief Monetary Officer.

The appointments arrive three months after Warner Music Group entered into a joint venture with the label, with 10K Initiatives changing into a standalone label throughout the WMG ecosystem.

All three executives will probably be primarily based in 10K’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Blake Brown-Grakal joined 10K Initiatives in 2020 as Affiliate Director, Enterprise and Authorized Affairs.

Previous to that, he was an affiliate at a boutique regulation agency in Los Angeles. He was a founding associate in Dream No Extra Studios, an immersive-virtual digital content material creation firm.

He started his profession as a drum tech and manufacturing supervisor with Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band and acquired his J.D. at Southwestern Legislation College.

Samuel Cohen started his profession at 10K in 2017 as an intern and one of many label’s first staff. Since then, he has served in quite a lot of positions in A&R, advertising and marketing and enterprise growth.

On this newly created position, Cohen will oversee operations, human assets, and enterprise growth on the label.

For the previous 10 years, Max Gore has held quite a lot of finance positions at Warner Music Group, most just lately serving as Vice President of Finance & Operations at WMX Media and Artistic Content material.

He joined Warner as a Monetary Planning Supervisor within the firm’s London workplace in 2014. Gore started his profession within the music business working within the royalty division at EMI Music.

“As we stay up for a brand new part of progress at 10K, reinforcing our core govt workforce is essential,”

Elliot Grainge, 10K Initiatives

“As we stay up for a brand new part of progress at 10K, reinforcing our core govt workforce is essential,” mentioned Elliot Grainge Founder and CEO of 10K Initiatives.

“Max brings with him nicely over a decade of finance expertise, the bulk throughout the Warner system. Blake’s facility in speaking with artists and their groups on enterprise issues has been a gamechanger for us over these previous three years.

“And Sam has been at 10K for the reason that very starting, serving to to information each chapter of our growth on the label. This govt workforce helps place us for the long run as we proceed to interrupt new floor at 10K.”Music Enterprise Worldwide