DESCRIPTION:
Ged played drums in local Manchester bands when he was a teenager and then started Renegade Management where he managed Paul Young throughout his successful solo career.
In 1992 he moved to New York as head of International for Epic Records and worked with acts such as Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine and Michael Jackson. In 1996 he returned to the UK to head up Columbia Records where under his leadership the label went from the No 9 UK label to No 1. He moved to become Label manager at Arista Records in 1999 where he worked closely with Simon Cowell for the first time; he became President of BMG Records in 2001 and then Chairman and CEO of Sony UK in 2006.
He was also chairman of the BRITS academy from 2008 to 2010.
In 2014 he formed Raindog Films with the actor Colin Firth and their first film together was the highly successful ‘Eye In The Sky.’ They have recently released ‘Loving.’
Ged is also currently the Chairman of the trade organisation for British record labels, the British Phonographic Industry. (BPI)
He talks in detail about his career and what he has learnt during that time.

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