Deborah Dugan

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Deborah Dugan
Known forFormer president and CEO of The Recording Academy
Former Chief Executive Officer of (RED)
TitlePresident and CEO of The Recording Academy
Term2019-2020
PredecessorNeil Portnow
SuccessorHarvey Mason Jr. (interim)

Deborah Dugan is an American executive who was the first female president and CEO of the Recording Academy in 2019 and 2020. Prior to that she served as the CEO of (RED) and president of Disney Publishing Worldwide. She has contributed to the Huffington Post and Forbes.com and appeared on Mad Money with Jim Cramer and NPR's All Things Considered.

Early career

Dugan was a business affairs attorney on Wall Street.[1]

Career

She transitioned to executive vice president at EMI/Capitol Records working with artists such as Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Tracy Chapman, and Placido Domingo.[2][3] She then worked for Disney Publishing Worldwide for eight years, becoming president.[1][4] There she oversaw 275 magazines and published more than 4,000 new book titles, leading a team of more than 500 employees worldwide and generating $1.8 billion in global retail sales, according to Animation News Network.[3] She has also worked at Entertainment Rights[3] also known as SBK Records.[2]

(RED)

In 2011, Dugan started serving as CEO of (RED), co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver.[2] The nonprofit foundation aims to enlist the help of private companies and citizens in the global fight to eradicate AIDS[5] in Sub-Saharan Africa[6] (it now tasks itself to also combat the effects of Covid-19).[7] She rearranged her life to travel to Africa,[2] and, under her tenure, (RED)’s campaigns and partnerships started to include Coca-Cola, Beats by Dre, Starbucks, the Super Bowl, Salesforce, Bank of America,[8] Jimmy Kimmel Live, Amazon, Snapchat, Nickelodeon, Moschino, Jeremy Scott,[9] Latin America's Claro and Telcel, and German multinational SAP.[5] During this time the foundation reached $600M for the Global Fund and impacted the lives of 110 million.

From 2011 to 2015, she also contributed to Huffington Post, in 2017 and 2018, to Forbes.com.[4][10] In 2017 she was awarded PTTOW!'s Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award.[11][12]

Recording Academy presidency

On May 8, 2019, the board of trustees of The Recording Academy confirmed that Dugan would be its next president and CEO. She began her tenure on August 1, 2019, succeeding Neil Portnow. Dugan was the first woman president of the nonprofit,[13][14] and her contract was for three years.[15]

On January 16, 2020, Dugan was relieved of her duties as president and CEO and placed on administrative leave, accused of bullying her assistant, whom she inherited from Portnow,[15] resulting in the assistant taking a leave of absence.[16] Recording Academy Chairman Harvey Mason Jr. took over as interim president and CEO.[17] In response, Dugan made claims that the organization was complicit in corruption, citing "voting irregularities, financial mismanagement, 'exorbitant and unnecessary' legal bills, and conflicts of interest involving members of the academy’s board, executive committee and outside lawyers".[16][18] On March 2, 2020, the Recording Academy announced that it had officially fired her. A letter was sent to its members informing them of the action taken by its Board of Trustees.[19][20]

Board memberships and associations

She is on the board of the Moth[21] and creative nonprofit Girl Effect.[22]

She is also a member of Association of American Publishers and MPA – The Association of Magazine Media.

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References

  1. ^ a b "Sexism? Cronyism? Mismanagement? After sudden ouster of Grammys chief, spin and finger-pointing begin". Los Angeles Times. January 18, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Aswad, Jem (Apr 16, 2019). "Who Is Deborah Dugan, the New Boss of the Recording Academy?". Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b c DeMott, Rick (16 May 2007). "Dugan New Head of Entertainment Rights North America". Animation News Network.
  4. ^ a b "Contributor: Deborah Dugan". Huffington Post.
  5. ^ a b "Deb Dugan: Chief Executive Officer (RED)". One.org.
  6. ^ "(RED) CEO Deb Dugan: The Business Of Ending Disease | Mad Money | CNBC". CNBC via YouTube. 11 October 2016.
  7. ^ "COVID-19 Threatens to Destroy Progress in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS". Red.org. 6 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Part 1: Welcome and Corporate Overview — Salesforce World Tour New York Keynote 2016". Salesforce via YouTube. 25 May 2016.
  9. ^ Hutchins, Robert (8 June 2017). "Nickelodeon and Red raise money for AIDS with SpongeBob Red".
  10. ^ "Deborah Dugan: Contributor ForbesWomen". Forbes.com.
  11. ^ https://pttow.com/member-network/
  12. ^ "Deborah Dugan, CEO, (RED) @ WORLDZ 2017". WorldZ Tribe via YouTube. 2017.
  13. ^ "BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPOINTS DEBORAH DUGAN AS PRESIDENT/CEO OF". GRAMMY.com. May 8, 2019. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  14. ^ "New Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan Pledges More Diversity, Inclusion: 'I'm In Awe of the Potential'". Billboard. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  15. ^ a b Peck, Emily (24 January 2020). "Deborah Dugan Tried To Fix The Grammys. Instead She Says She Was 'Ruined' By A Boys Club". Huffington Post.
  16. ^ a b Sisario, Ben (2020-01-16). "Grammys Leader Deborah Dugan Removed 10 Days Before Ceremony". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  17. ^ "Ousted Grammys chief: 'We will expose what happens when you "step up" at the Recording Academy'". Los Angeles Times. Jan 17, 2020. Retrieved Jan 26, 2020.
  18. ^ Ifeanyi, K. C. (2020-01-23). "Ousted Recording Academy CEO punches back and claims the Grammys are fixed". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  19. ^ France, Lisa Respers. "Recording Academy fires Deborah Dugan". CNN. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  20. ^ Aswad, Jem (Apr 13, 2019). "Deborah Dugan to Succeed Neil Portnow as Recording Academy Chief". Retrieved Apr 23, 2019.
  21. ^ "Board & Committees". The Moth.
  22. ^ https://www.girleffect.org/who-we-are/our-people/deborah-dugan/
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Preceded by President of The Recording Academy
2019–2020 		Succeeded by
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