Family First For Wendy Goodman
• After a successful 25-year promotion career, the last 20 spent with RCA Records, Wendy Goodman has made the major life decision to resign her position as Senior Vice President of Promotion to spend more quality time with her family.
A staff email from RCA co-President Joe Riccitelli, obtained by RAMP, read in part, “Wendy’s passion, positivity and tenacity has helped lead our Promotion team’s consistent success at adult radio. Those attributes are cornerstones of this department’s beliefs. Most recently, Wendy successfully oversaw the launch of P!NK‘s last three LPs at adult radio, helping to make P!NK one of the most played artists at that format. Wendy also led the top five adult radio charge on the Grammy nominated “Praying,” by Kesha. Under her direction, American Idol artists Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry and Carrie Underwood flourished at national radio.” In closing, Riccitelli said, “I’ve always valued her partnership in developing the Promotion team and how committed she has always been to promoting our artists’ music. Please join me in wishing Wendy and her family all the very best in the future.”
For her part, Goodman issued her own staff email that read, “Besides my children, my greatest accomplishment is my 20 years at RCA Records. I have had the privilege of working with some of the best music executives, artists, managers and radio programmers in the business and these relationships are what I cherish the most of my 25 years on the label side. That’s what makes this decision so difficult, but I have thought long and hard about it, and right now I need to spend more time with my children and be there for them in a more consistent capacity.”
She added, “I have called RCA Records home for two decades and they are truly my family. The relationships I have built I will treasure more than I could ever express in a written word. Thank you to Joe Riccitelli for believing in me since the day we merged in 2011 and continually elevating me for the last nine years. I will forever be grateful to Richard Palmese and Clive Davis for hiring me at J Records 20 years ago and giving me the opportunity to be part of building something really special.” Wendy’s last day at RCA Records is Friday, February 28. Until then, she can be reached at Wendy.Goodman@rcarecords.com.
