DANIEL STUART TO BUILD AWAL

Daniel Stuart has joined Kobalt’s recorded music company AWAL as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, U.S.

Based in Los Angeles, Stuart will oversee AWAL’s U.S.-based legal affairs activities, which include the negotiation of AWAL’s agreements with its clients, distributors and vendors, and the development and implementation of new business affairs initiatives and strategies.

“Daniel’s impressive background representing music industry talent and his artist-first approach made him the perfect fit to support our mission of putting artists at the center of today’s music industry,” AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick.

A former music broadcast journalist and editor of RadioScope, he has spent more than 20 years as a lawyer at firms such as King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.

“I’ve long considered Kobalt and AWAL to be on the leading edge of artist-friendly innovation in the music industry,” Stuart said.