Universal Music's Jeff Harleston Honored with 2020 ELI Service Award: 'We Need to Embrace Change'

Rapper Common and UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge paid tribute to the veteran legal and business affairs executive on Friday afternoon.with the 2020 Entertainment Law Initiative Service Award -- the annual honor that celebrates attorneys who have "demonstrated a commitment to advancing and supporting the music community through service” -- in a ceremony held Friday afternoon in Santa Monica.

“He’s also a man who never forgets that -- beyond any transaction -- it’s ultimately the artists who matter most,” he continued. “As Jeff knows, it’s their talent and their work that actually inspire fans from generation to generation.

Upon taking the stage, Harleston kicked things off by remarking on the one thing that has eluded him -- “an invitation to Clive’s party,” he quipped -- before reminding the crowd he has been at the same company for nearly 27 years . He went on to praise members of the UMG management team including Grainge,; his UMG legal team; and his wife and four children, who were not on hand.

“We don’t need to just embrace change in our business,” he said. “We need to embrace change in our companies, we need to embrace change in our law firms, we need to embrace change in our institutions. Embrace is really the word, because only through change will we continue to grow and evolve. The only reason our business is strong today is because we figured it out. We didn’t run from it; we didn’t stick our head in the ground. We figured it out.

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