Boyd Muir
Boyd Muir is Chief Operating Officer (COO), and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Universal Music Group (UMG). As COO, Muir is responsible for driving strategic growth across the company’s worldwide operations and has played a central role in the physical-to-digital reshaping of company resources, in addition to leading its global financial operations, asset management, information technology, accounting and supply chain.
Muir, who was appointed COO in October 2024, will continue to serve as CFO until his successor is appointed. As UMG’s CFO, Muir played a key role in the company’s successful listing on the Euronext stock exchange in 2021. He has also been involved in a number of significant acquisitions, including Sanctuary Group and V2 Music Group, as well as leading the company’s successful acquisitions of EMI, Ingrooves, [PIAS] and UMG’s minority investment in the Chord Music Fund.
He was appointed as UMG’s EVP, CFO and President of Operations in 2010, having previously served as CFO for Universal Music Group International, the division which manages UMG’s businesses in more than 50 countries for more than a decade. From 1984 to 1991, Muir worked for Ernst & Young, including at its entertainment media division in London, and for EMI from 1991 to 1994. At the latter group, he was head of internal audit, spending considerable time working in Los Angeles and New York. He was also closely involved in EMI’s acquisition of Virgin Music and Chrysalis Records.
