RCA/Ariola Names Head of New Unit

RCA/Ariola Records appointed the president of a new division Tuesday as part of a recently announced restructuring.

Gregory Fischbach, formerly a music industry attorney and president of a Mountain View, Calif.-based computer software firm, was named to head RCA/Ariola Records-International, one of three independent operating units established by Elliot Goldman, president and chief executive of RCA/Ariola.

Fischbach will oversee the company’s music operations outside the United States. As founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Fischbach & Fischbach in 1975, Fischbach represented such music industry clients as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Emmylou Harris and Boz Scaggs. Since 1983, he has been president of Activision International and senior vice president of Activision Inc. He holds a degree from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law and once served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.