Bob Valentine is the Chief Executive Officer of Concord, the world’s leading independent music company. Bob was appointed as the CEO of Concord on July 1, 2023, having previously served as Concord’s President and, before that, as its Chief Financial Officer. During his career spanning nearly two decades at Concord and its predecessor entities, Bob has helped to deploy over $1.5B of equity and debt capital to acquire music and theatrical rights and was a key contributor in driving Concord’s growth from an $8M/year jazz record label to a $750M+ revenue global music company.
Bob began his association with Concord in 1999 when he worked as Vice President of Business Development for Norman Lear’s Act III Entertainment. While working for Mr. Lear and his business partner, Hal Gaba, Valentine helped to negotiate the purchase of Concord Records and subsequently served as a liaison between Act III and Concord. In 2001, he departed to join the business development department of Fox Entertainment’s television division. In 2005, he returned to Concord as CFO of the newly formed Concord Music Group, Inc., upon Concord’s acquisition of Fantasy Records, Inc. When Concord merged with another Act III investment, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, in 2008, he subsequently served dual roles as CFO of Concord and SVP of Business Development for Village Roadshow. Upon Village Roadshow’s decision to divest of Concord in 2013, he helped manage its sale to Wood Creek Capital and stayed with the company and its new owner as its CFO and COO. In 2015, Concord Music Group merged with another Wood Creek music company investment, Bicycle Music, to form Concord Bicycle Music, which was rebranded as Concord in 2019. Bob was named CFO of the overall combined group upon Concord’s merger with Bicycle.
Bob received his M.B.A. degree from U.C.L.A.’s Anderson School of Management. Prior to earning his M.B.A., he began his career by working for three years as a financial analyst in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, based in New York. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and English literature. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Elena Goss and their two children, Evan and Fia.