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KNOW YOUR ABBREVIATIONS: UMG’S NEW SVP OF HR IS A PH.D. WITH A BA FROM UCLA

UMG has named Samantha Fink, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Human Resources.

As a member of UMG’s global HR team, Fink will oversee business partnering and employee relations, working directly with the company’s label leadership and operating units around the world, today’s announcement notes. She’ll be based at the company’s Santa Monica HQ and report to EVP of HR Gautam Srivastava.

“This is an incredibly exciting time to join Universal Music,” Fink enthused. “I’m looking forward to working with our labels to support UMG’s mission around the world to develop new opportunities for artists. I’m thankful to Gautam and the entire executive team for this responsibility.”

Fink is a bona fide jet-setter, having overseen global human resources teams in North America, Europe and Asia during her two-decade career, at companies including Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Prada USA and James Perse Enterprises. Her most recent gig was with Spencer Stuart’s Consumer and Human Resources Practices, based in L.A.

She brings a ton of higher education to UMG: a doctorate in organizational anthropology from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris; master’s degrees in cultural anthropology and comparative linguistics from the Université de Rouen, in social work administration and policy from the University of Michigan and in French literature and cultural studies from Middlebury College; and a bachelor’s degree in French language and literature from the UCLA.

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