Max Siegel Appointed President of Global Operations

New York, NY — Max Siegel today announced that he will be exiting his post as Senior Vice President, Zomba Label Group/President, Zomba Gospel, to join Dale Earnhardt, Inc., as President of Global Operations. Siegel was tapped by co-founder Teresa Earnhardt to oversee marketing, promotion, sales, sponsorship and distribution for all Dale Earnhardt, Inc. properties including the company’s top-rated motor sports teams, airline, licensing and auto dealership, as well as the Dale Earnhardt Foundation.

In accepting the position, Siegel transitions out of the music industry at the top of his career. Siegel served on Sony BMG’s President’s Council, the global management team responsible for plotting the operational and marketing objectives for the company and its artists such as Usher, Beyonce, Kenny Chesney, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and R. Kelly.

Under Siegel’s leadership, Zomba Gospel – home to mainstays Verity and Gospocentric Records – has become the genre’s dominant label, producing many of Gospel music’s most successful artists including Donnie McClurkin, Kirk Franklin, John P. Kee, Donald Lawrence and Fred Hammond. The label has more Gold and Platinum selling artists than any other Gospel label and in this year’s fourth quarter alone has had 7 Top-10 albums and four #1 album debuts.

“Leaving the music industry is bittersweet. Music has been more than just a career for me; it is very much a part of my being. I have enjoyed working in this industry and more than the successes, I value the great friends and professional relationships I’ve established,” says Siegel. Moving into a new area of business was not my goal, but this is an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up and I am looking forward to the new challenges that await me.”

With an extraordinary track record as an accomplished sports and entertainment attorney, entertainment executive, author and television and film producer, Max Siegel is one of the most influential executives in the entertainment industry and is credited with taking the Gospel music industry particularly into unprecedented areas of profitability. In 2004 he established the formidable About My Father’s Business Conference that serves as a de facto training and motivational camp for aspiring Gospel music executives and artists.

Before coming to Zomba, Siegel was president of Tommy Boy Gospel and for years prior to that he was a sought after sports and entertainment attorney, playing a major role in the shaping of such sports personalities as Tony Gwynn and Reggie White, while representing some of the top names in music including Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond and John P. Kee.

An Indianapolis native, Siegel is a cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School. His legal knowledge has earned him the opportunity to serve in various leadership positions within high-profile professional organizations such as The American Bar Association, The New York and Indiana State Bar Association, Gospel Heritage Foundation and The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.