Emily Akanimoh is currently working as the HR Partner for Hospital Records where she is part of the senior leadership team and leads the EDI and wellbeing teams. Emily has over 15 years’ experience in HR operations, creating and setting up people functions from scratch in the game industry, oil and gas, contract publishing and music industry. She has a love/hate relationship with TUPE transfers both as a transferee and transferor for Premiership football clubs in the UK.

Emily is passionate about leading and influencing, especially in coaching and supporting young people to achieve their goals and bringing out the best in them. She often speaks at events and panels about the future of work in the music industry and shares career development tips with students at University of the Arts London and the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).