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Warner Chappell Australia MD to Depart as WMG Eliminates 10% of Staff

Matthew Capper has led Warner Chappell Australia as managing director since 2010, and boasts more than 20 years’ service with the company.

Capper has led Warner Chappell Australia as managing director since 2010, and boasts more than 20 years’ service with the company. On his election to the board of APRA in 2007, he become the youngest-ever director of the authors’ rights society, aged 30 – a record that still stands. In an internal memo to staff obtained by Billboard, Kyncl wrote that the company will be reducing headcount by 10%, or some 600 people, as part of a plan to free up $200 million in cost savings to reinvest into the business.

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