Mel Lewinter (born 1941) is an American music industry executive. He is executive vice president of label strategy at

Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment (SME), commonly known as Sony Music, is an American multinational music company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of Sony Music Group, with the other half being the ...

Career

Lewinter has held several important positions within the music industry, working at

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#M ...

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and now Sony Music Entertainment. He served as vice chairman of the Atlantic Group. Lewinter also served in high-ranking positions at Warner Music Group. He was executive vice president of their US division and also served as the chief operating officer of Warner Music Group. Lewinter was also vice chairman of MCA Music Entertainment Group. More recently he served as chairman and CEO of

Universal Motown Universal Motown Records was an American record label that operated as a division of Universal Motown Republic Group. It was the contemporary incarnation of the legendary Motown Records label, and the " urban" half of the Universal Records ...

and then became chairman and CEO of Universal Motown Republic Group. He is the executive vice president of label strategy at

. Doug Morris announced that he had appointed to this position in October 2011.

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