Randy Lennox

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Randy Lennox
File:Randy Lennox.jpg
Nationality Canadian
Occupation President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media

Randy Lennox is President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media, Canada’s premier multimedia company. He was formerly the President and CEO of Universal Music Canada, Canada's largest music record label.

Career

Lennox first joined Universal Music as a customer service representative.[1] He later worked as Ontario's Branch Manager for Universal, then as the company's vice-president of sales and marketing.[2]

In 1998, when Universal Music Canada merged with Polygram Canada Inc, Lennox was serving as Universal Music's General Manager.[3] Following the merger, Lennox was appointed as the amalgamated company's President.[4][5]

In January 2001 his role was expanded and he was appointed the Universal Music Canada's Chief Executive Officer.[6] Under Lennox's leadership, Universal Music Canada has been named ‘Record Company of the Year’ for 16 consecutive years at Canadian Music Week.[7]

In February 2002, MacLean’s Magazine named Lennox as one of their ‘Most Influential Canadians.’[8]

On March 11, 2010, Lennox was inducted into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame as part of Canadian Music Week.[9][10] That year Lennox also won a Juno Award for "Single of the Year" for producing Wavin' Flag, a single that raised over $1 million in disaster relief funds for Haiti.[11]

In 2014, Lennox was named International Label Executive of the Year by the Worldwide Radio Summit.[12]

On August 25, 2015 Lennox was appointed President, Entertainment Production and Broadcasting, Bell Media. Later, in November of the same year, Lennox was named one of the 50 most influential people living in Toronto by Toronto Life magazine.[13] In 2016, Lennox secured the expansion of US-based internet radio streaming service IHeartRadio into the Canadian market through Bell Media. [14]

Industry involvement

Lennox holds many board positions on industry organizations: He has served on the Juno Awards committee.[15] He is also the talent chair and executive producer of Canada's Walk of Fame[16] and is the chair of the Massey & Roy Thompson Hall’s Board.[17] He also sits on the boards of both CARAS and Music Canada.[18]

Under Lennox's leadership, Universal Music Canada has signed and developed Gold and Platinum artists including Hedley, Sam Roberts, The Tragically Hip, Paul Anka, Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian Tenors, The Weeknd, Stephan Moccio, Shawn Mendes and Keisza.

Lennox has also championed and worked closely with internationally-renowned Canadian artists including Justin Bieber, Drake, Diana Krall, Nelly Furtado, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, Arcade Fire, Nickleback and Sarah McLachlan.[19]

Notable projects

Lennox has produced or executive produced a number of prominent albums,[20][21] including:

Charitable involvement

Lennox is a director of the Smilezone Foundation, a Canadian charity that aims to improve the lives of children facing illness, disabilities, physical and emotional obstacles.[22] He also sits on the board of CARAS MusiCounts, a music education charity.[23]

For the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, Lennox executive produced CTV’s official anthem for the games that was recorded by Canadian artist Nikki Yanofsky and produced by Stephan Moccio.[24]

Lennox's Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music, sold more than a million albums while raising $5.2 million for Canadian charities the Starlight Foundation, Safe Haven and MusiCounts.

Young Artists for Haiti

Along with industry veterans Bob Ezrin and Gary Slaight, Lennox founded Young Artists for Haiti, a movement to engage Canada's young musicians to continue to inspire an ongoing effort and contribution to Canadian charities for their work to help the people of Haiti overcome the devastation from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked the country on January 12, 2010.[25]

Participants included Justin Bieber, Jully Black, Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan, Broken Social Scene, Tyler Connelly from Theory of a Deadman, Fefe Dobson, Drake, Elisapie, Esthero, Nelly Furtado, Kardinal Offishall, The Tenors, Emily Haines from Metric, Jacob Hoggard from Hedley, Ima, Chin Injeti, Pierre Lapointe, Avril Lavigne, Lights, Matt Mays, Justin Nozuka, Kardinal Offishall, Sam Roberts, Serena Ryder, Deryck Whibley from Sum 41, Hawksley Workman and Nikki Yanofsky.[26]

The group sang the song "Wavin' Flag," and raised over $1 million for Haitian disaster relief.[27] As of June 2015, the official video has almost 20,000,000 views on YouTube.[28] Wavin' Flag won "Single of the Year" at the 2011 Juno Awards.[29]

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