CCMG Ups O’Donnell & Plachy

• Capitol Christian Music Group (CCMG) has promoted Brad O’Donnell to Chief Creative Officer and Hudson Plachy to Chief Marketing Officer. In his new position, O’Donnell (left) will be responsible for all A&R and Creative-related strategic objectives, as well as overseeing A&R Administration and the Creative staff for both the recorded music and music publishing businesses. Peachy (right) will oversee all of the company’s marketing and promotion campaigns, as well as video content creation and management of Commercial Partnerships. He will also direct the creation and implementation of all music consumption and artist development growth strategies.

Both gentlemen are based at the company’s headquarters in Nashville and report directly to CCMG Chairman & CEO Peter York, who commented, “These promotions and strategic organizational changes are designed to enable Brad and Hudson to provide even better services to our company’s artists and songwriters in this rapidly changing recorded music and publishing business. I congratulate Brad and Hudson on their well-deserved promotions and elevated roles within our company as we empower this next generation of leaders to guide CCMG successfully and well into the future.”

O’Donnell has held A&R leadership positions at CCMG since joining the company in 2001, overseeing the label group roster and the production of numerous chart-topping projects at radio and retail, as well as playing significant roles in the careers of numerous Platinum and Gold artists, including Chris Tomlin, Mandisa, TobyMac and many others. He was also instrumental in the development of sixstepsrecords.

Plachy began his career at CCMG in 2002 as a marketing coordinator and worked on the team handling Steven Curtis Chapman, Nichole Nordeman and many others. He was promoted to Manager of International Sales and Distribution in 2008, upped to Director of Product Marketing in 2011, VP of Marketing in 2015, and SVP of Marketing in 2016.