A2IM Indie Week 2024: Golnar Khosrowshahi in Conversation with Billboard's Kristin Robinson
Golnar Khosrowshahi is the Founder and CEO of Reservoir, an award-winning independent music company headquartered in New York City and with operations in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi.
Established in 2007, Reservoir is the first female founded and led publicly traded independent music company in the U.S. Under Golnar’s leadership, Reservoir has grown to own and administer over 140,000 copyrights and 36,000 master recordings, with titles dating as far back as 1900.
Golnar continues to lead the team in building a well-attended roster and an established catalog, and regularly appears as one of Billboard’s Most Powerful Female Executives, as well as a Billboard Indie Power Player. She notably earned a spot in Billboard’s Women In Music Hall of Fame in 2023, following her recognition as Executive of the Year for 2022. Furthermore, Reservoir has twice been awarded both Publisher of the Year at Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R Awards and Independent Publisher of the Year at the Music Week Awards.
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Kristin Robinson is a senior writer at Billboard, covering the intersection of music rights and technology. After joining the Billboard staff in July 2021, her reporting on music fraud made her a finalist for a National Arts and Entertainment Journalism award in 2023.
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