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Global Market Development
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Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
Anyone with a dream should have the opportunity to make it come true—through determination and an economic system that works for all
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Sylvia Rhone

Chairman and CEO, Epic Records

Sylvia Rhone

Sylvia Rhone is regarded as the most influential female executive in the history of the music business. Recipient of nearly three dozen honors and awards, Ms. Rhone is currently the Chairman and CEO of Epic Records, overseeing a roster of chart-topping artists including Travis Scott, Camila Cabello, 21 Savage, Future, and others. In a career spanning more than four decades, Ms. Rhone has helmed senior positions at all three major record companies, including President of Universal Motown Records, Executive Vice President of Universal Records, and Chairman of the Universal Motown Record Group (2004-2011), Chairman/CEO of the Elektra Entertainment Group, the first woman, ever, to be named CEO of a major record label owned by a Fortune 500 company and the first African American woman in history to attain such a title (1994-2004) and CEO/President of Atlantic's EastWest Records U.S. division (1990-1994). Born and raised in New York City's Harlem, Ms. Rhone graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, bucking the Ivy League route in her music business journey to take a job as a secretary at Buddah Records.