Ethiopia Habtemariam

Formerly chairwoman and CEO of Motown from March to December 2021; departed from board of directors in November 2022. From Atlanta, Habtemariam started as an intern at Elektra and later, LaFace Records in the 1990s before she moved to Los Angeles in 2000, aged 21, to work in a publishing job for LaFace co-founder Kenneth Edmonds aka Babyface.