Shore Fire Media Promotes Five Execs to Leadership Roles

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Shore Fire Media, one of the music industry’s most long-running and far-reaching strategy and communications companies, has announced the promotion of five of its top executives to key leadership positions.

Allison Elbl, Matt Hanks, Mark Satlof and Rebecca Shapiro have been promoted to co-presidents, with Jaclyn D. Carter promoted to senior vice president. (Pictured L-R, row 1: Elbl, Hanks, Satlof; row 2, Shapiro, Carter.) CEO Marilyn Laverty, who founded Shore Fire in 1990, will take on an expanded role at Dolphin Entertainment, which acquired the company in 2019, while remaining CEO of Shore Fire.

She will focus on collaborations and new initiatives between Dolphin’s component companies while. Elbl, based in Los Angeles, leads Shore Fire’s West Coast office representing talent, artists and brands while collaborating on initiatives across Dolphin Entertainment.

Hanks, Satlof and Shapiro — all based out of Shore Fire’s flagship Brooklyn, N.Y. office — will oversee the company’s core music roster and rapidly growing verticals with brands, events, venues, cultural institutions, industry leaders, authors, films, podcasts and more.