1. Golnar Khosrowshahi was born on September 18,1971 and is an Iranian-Canadian businesswoman and the CEO and Founder of Reservoir Media Management, Inc She is currently a member of the New York Philharmonic Board of Directors, and she served as Board Chair of Silkroad, a musical collective founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2000.
Golnar Khosrowshahi was born on September 18,1971, in Tehran, Iran.
Golnar Khosrowshahi is the daughter of Nezhat Khosrowshahi and Hassan Khosrowshahi, an investor, and philanthropist.
Hassan Golnar Khosrowshahi was educated in Iran and England and obtained his degree in law and economics from the University of Tehran.
Golnar Khosrowshahi received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and her MBA from Columbia University.
Golnar Khosrowshahi founded Reservoir Media in 2007 as a music publishing company, which she continues to run today alongside President and COO Rell Lafargue.
Golnar Khosrowshahi 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, and London.
Golnar Khosrowshahi won Music Week's Independent Publisher of the Year in 2020 and in 2022.
Outside the company, working alongside Artist Director and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Golnar Khosrowshahi served as Board Chair of Silkroad, a musical collective founded in 2000, and now serves as a Director.
Golnar Khosrowshahi is a Director on the board of the National Music Publishers Association, a trade association representing all American music publishers and their songwriting partners, 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, and as board member for the esteemed orchestra and organization the New York Philharmonic.
Golnar Khosrowshahi previously served as a board member of Restaurant Brands International, one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with more than $34 billion in system-wide sales and approximately 27,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and US territories, as well as a board member of Nomad Foods.
Golnar Khosrowshahi is a director emeritus of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation in Toronto and a trustee emeritus of Pearson College, a United World College.
Golnar Khosrowshahi was named to Billboard's Power List in 2020,2022 and 2021, and was honoured as one of Billboard's Most Powerful Female Executives in 2017,2018 and 2019 and a Billboard Indie Power Player in 2017 and 2018.
Golnar Khosrowshahi was named to Variety's New York Women's Impact Report 2022.
Golnar Khosrowshahi is a classically trained pianist through the Royal Academy of Music in London, England and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada.
Golnar Khosrowshahi is the cousin of Dara Golnar Khosrowshahi, the current CEO of Uber.