Pieter van Rijn

CEO, DOWNTOWN MUSIC HOLDINGS

With extensive experience across global strategy, van Rijn is responsible for overseeing and providing expanded leadership across Downtown Music’s global division of business and professional services; including its distribution, label services, publishing, neighbouring rights and sync licensing services offering. Having served as President of Downtown Music since July 2022, van Rijn was appointed CEO of Downtown Music Holdings in July 2024.

Prior to this, van Rijn served as CEO of global music distributor FUGA, which he joined in 2014 and led through a period of unprecedented growth. Now firmly established as the world’s leading B2B distribution company, van Rijn expanded its global footprint, launching new hubs across EMEA, North America, LATAM and APAC and transformed FUGA into a full label-services business, including marketing services, sync, royalty accounting, physical distribution, and audience engagement and insights, whilst ensuring it remains a music-tech leader.

A graduate of Erasmus University of Rotterdam, van Rijn began his career as a songwriter signed to Sony Music before moving into corporate strategy and M&A, consulting for some of Europe’s largest companies.