Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge will receive the 2015 Creative Fusion Award at the BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards next month.
The BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards competition, which is open for nominations until midnight PST on March 6, 2015, was created to celebrate ‘the unique and pivotal business relationship between the UK and California. The winning companies are recognized for their innovations in design, technology, services or social impact’.
The Creative Fusion Award recognises an individual who ‘exemplifies the special creative relationship between the UK and California, and whose creative talents and business acumen have had a profound impact on the way we live, work, and play’.
Previous Creative Fusion Award recipients include Simon Cowell and Paul Oakenfold.
“I am honored to except the 2015 Creative Fusion Award,” said Grainge. “Anglo-American partnerships are responsible for some of the most influential and successful music and other forms of creative expression the world has ever known. I am delighted organizations like BritWeek and UK Trade & Investment champion that unique bond between the UK and US.”
He will be presented with The Creative Fusion Award at the BritWeek UKTI Business Innovation Awards Dinner at The Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on April 23, 2015.
Grainge serves on the boards of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. and Northeastern University in Boston.Music Business Worldwide
