SONGS Music Publishing has announced the promotion of Rob Guthrie to Head of Operations. Guthrie will continue to oversee the Copyright, Administration and Royalty departments at SONGS, while adding Business Affairs, Systems, and International Society and Sub-Publisher Relations to his duties. He will now oversee all internal legal processes including the negotiation of digital deals. He will also have operational responsibility for the company’s systems, including its proprietary metadata and creative licensing platform SONGsearch, yourSONGS, a creative management portal for the company’s songwriters, and the company’s soon-to-launch proprietary royalty processing technology. Contact [email protected].