Andrea Ganis named Atlantic Executive Vice President, Promotion.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1995--Andrea Ganis has been appointed executive vice president, Promotion for Atlantic Records New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of headquarters. The announcement was made today by Atlantic Group Co-Chairman/Co-CEO Val Azzoli. Ganis, who joined Atlantic Records in 1980, had been a senior vice president of the company since 1990. In making the announcement, Azzoli commented: "One of the most accomplished and admired executives in the music industry, Andrea has overseen the development of what I believe to be the preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae promotion team in our business. Combining a wealth of experience with the ability to respond quickly and effectively to the ever-evolving radio landscape, she has played a pivotal role in making Atlantic the No. 1 label in the country. As a case in point, this week alone we have top ten records at virtually every radio format, a testament to Andrea's masterful ability to break a wide spectrum of artists. She brings exceptional intelligence, humanity, and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was to this competitive and volatile arena, and it gives me great pleasure to announce this well-deserved promotion." Ganis was recently inducted into the YWCA's prestigious Academy of Women Achievers, the nation's largest and most visible tribute to women of outstanding professional accomplishment. Ganis joined Atlantic Records in 1980 as director of Secondary Pop Promotion. She was subsequently named associate director of National Singles Promotion, director of National Singles Promotion, and senior director of National Singles Promotion. In 1988, Ganis was named vice president of National Promotion, followed by her promotion to senior vice president two years later. Prior to joining Atlantic, she held national promotion posts at Polydor Records Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Company history Beginnings Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. and Infinity infinity, in mathematics, that which is not finite. A sequence of numbers, a1, a2, a3, … , is said to "approach infinity" if the numbers eventually become arbitrarily large, i.e. Records. CONTACT: Atlantic Records Patti Conte, 212/275-2033 Laura Gold, 310/205-7412 |
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