Molly Neuman named Downtown Music CMO, Wetstone and Dawurs to oversee Songtrust

Downtown Music Holdings has named Molly Neuman to the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer of the global music group.

Most recently Neuman served as President of Downtown’s Songtrust. She joined the music publishing administration service in 2017 as Global Head of Business Development and was elevated to President in 2019.

Neuman has been a champion of independent artists for her entire career. An original Riot Grrrl, she was the drummer for the influential band Bratmobile and co-founded indie Lookout! Records. Prior to Songtrust, she was Head of Music at Kickstarter.

She has also been named to Billboard’s prestigious Women In Music list for the last three consecutive years.

Under her leadership, Songtrust has grown to represent more than 3 million copyrights for more than 350,000 writers in 145 countries along with tens of thousands of record labels, distributors, and boutique publishers.

“Over the past 5 years, Molly has led Songtrust through a period of dramatic growth, establishing the company as one of the largest and most successful independent music publishing administration services in the world,” said Andrew Bergman, CEO of Downtown Music Holdings.

What’s next @ Songtrust?

With Neuman’s departure, Rob Wetstone and Sussane Dawursk who lead Revenue and Marketing at the company respectively will oversee Songtrust.