Hightouch names Matthew Lubeck General Manager, EMEA. Hightouch has named Matthew Lubeck as General Manager, EMEA, adding regional leadership as the company expands its go-to-market operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Based in London, Lubeck will oversee Hightouch's go-to-market functions across EMEA. His appointment brings around 20 years of experience spanning marketing technology and consumer brands in Europe. He joins Hightouch from Amperity, where he launched and led the company's EMEA business. Earlier in his career, Lubeck held leadership roles at L'Oréal and The Estée Lauder Companies. The new role comes as marketing technology companies increasingly build regional teams to address differences in customer requirements, data regulations, buying processes, and market maturity across EMEA. Hightouch operates in the data and AI marketing space, with its platform connecting customer data stored in companies' existing data infrastructure with marketing and business workflows. The company has offices in London and Paris, along with teams supporting markets including France, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Benelux, and the Middle East. Lubeck's experience across both consumer brands and customer data technology gives him exposure to different sides of the marketing technology ecosystem. At Amperity, he was responsible for establishing and leading its EMEA business, while his earlier roles at L'Oréal and Estée Lauder provided experience from within large consumer organizations. His appointment also comes as marketers across the region explore the use of AI agents for customer engagement, data activation, and marketing operations. This is creating new requirements around how customer data, technology platforms, governance, and marketing execution work together. Hightouch has also been expanding its presence in the Middle East, including a team in Dubai focused on the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Lubeck's EMEA remit therefore covers a region with varied markets and evolving requirements around data and AI adoption. The appointment gives Hightouch a dedicated regional leader as it continues to develop its EMEA go-to-market organization and navigate the changing relationship between customer data, marketing technology, and AI.

Hightouch, a data and AI marketing platform, has appointed Matthew Lubeck as general manager for EMEA. Based in London, Lubeck will oversee all go-to-market functions across the region. Lubeck brings 20 years of experience in marketing technology and consumer brands. He previously led EMEA business at Amperity and held leadership roles at L'Oréal and Estée Lauder Companies. The appointment follows Hightouch's more than 100 per cent growth in each of the past two years and its $150 million Series D funding round earlier this year. Hightouch has offices in London and Paris, with native-speaking teams across multiple European markets and a growing presence in the Middle East through a new Dubai team.

Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: 'Music is one of the things that makes humans human' September 15, 2026 Cherry Miao has joined Suno as the AI music company's first Chief Financial Officer. That's according to Miao, who announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post on Monday (September 14). She joins from Hightouch, the data and AI marketing company, where she was CFO. Wrote Miao: "I'm thrilled to share that I've joined Suno, the AI music company, as their first CFO. "I'm not joining Suno because it's one of the fastest-growing companies of all time (though it is!). I'm joining because my daughter started singing before she started talking. "Music is one of the things that makes humans human, and I'm deeply committed to the mission of using technology to bring more people the joy of creative expression. "On an internet that pushes us to mindlessly consume, more than 100 million people have used Suno to make something instead. A world centered on creation and expression is the world I want my daughter to live in." In her post, Miao thanked Suno's founding team, linking to the profiles of co-founders Mikey Shulman, Martin Camacho, and Georg Kucsko. She also thanked people at Menlo Ventures, Bond Capital, Forerunner, IVP, Lightspeed, and Matrix, all of which have invested in Suno. That round was led by Bond Capital, alongside IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon, and Quiet, with participation from existing investors Matrix, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, and Schroders Capital. It more than doubled Suno's valuation from the $2.45 billion it reached after a $250 million Series C round in November 2025. Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman said at the time that over 100 million people had used the platform. Suno runs a free tier alongside a Pro plan at $10 per month and a Premier plan at $30 per month. The company counted around 200 employees in June and planned to grow headcount by as much as 70% by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg. Miao is the latest senior appointment at Suno, which hired former Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota as Chief Commercial Officer in February. Paul Sinclair, who spent over two decades at Warner Music Group, joined Suno as Chief Music Officer in July 2025. Miao oversaw finance, legal, data, and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it, CFO.com reported in October 2025. Her previous employers include Headway and Accel. Suno launched its v6 suite of AI music models on Wednesday (September 9), developed with what the company called its industry partners, including Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. Suno settled WMG's copyright lawsuit in November 2025, in a deal that also saw it acquire concert-discovery platform Songkick from the major. It signed a licensing deal with BMG on August 12, and another with Believe on September 8. Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment remain plaintiffs in the RIAA-coordinated copyright case filed against Suno in Boston in June 2024. Fact discovery in that case closes on September 30. Suno lost a first-instance copyright case brought by Germany's GEMA at the Munich Regional Court on July 31, and said in a statement at the time that it disagreed with the ruling and was "evaluating all available options, including an appeal." Denmark's Koda sued the company in Copenhagen in November 2025, and Canada's SOCAN filed a claim in the Federal Court of Canada on September 2. Round Hill Music sued the company and data-scraping firm Bright Data on August 17, seeking damages the publisher says could approach or exceed $1 billion. "I'm so so amped to do the best work of my career alongside you all," Miao wrote of the Suno team.Music Business Worldwide