Career
Khosrowshahi founded Reservoir Media in 2007 as a music publishing company, which she continues to run today alongside President and COO Rell Lafargue.[6] The company has since expanded to a full-service music company with 150,000 copyrights, 36,000 master recordings dating back to the 1900s, and with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London. Abu Dhabi and Mumbai [6][7] In 2021, Reservoir also became a publicly traded company,[8][9] listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker RSVR.
In recent years, the company has expanded via acquisition, including acquiring TVT Music Enterprises in 2010, Reverb Music in 2012, P&P Songs in 2013, Chrysalis Records in 2019 and Shapiro Bernstein in 2020.[7][10][11] In 2021, Reservoir Media also acquired Tommy Boy Records for a reported $100 million.[12]
Reservoir has since earned the Publisher of the Year Award at Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R Awards in 2017 and 2019.[13] The company also won Music Week’s Independent Publisher of the Year in 2020[14] and in 2022.[15]
Outside the company, working alongside Artist Director and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Khosrowshahi served as Board Chair of Silkroad, a musical collective founded in 2000, and now serves as a Director. She is also a Director on the board of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), a trade association representing all American music publishers and their songwriting partners (since June 2015), a member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Society Triennial, a multi-venue festival of art, ideas and innovation that focuses on art from and about Asia and the diaspora (since May 2019), and as board member for the esteemed orchestra and organization the New York Philharmonic.[2][3][4][6][16][17] Khosrowshahi previously served as a board member of Restaurant Brands International,[18]
She is a director emeritus of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation in Toronto and a trustee emeritus of Pearson College, a United World College.[20]
