Scott Belmont is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG). In this role, Belmont oversees all aspects of UMG’s worldwide Information Technology resources and capabilities, as well as IT strategic planning and initiatives, policies, standards and security. Belmont has been instrumental in navigating a nine year IT transformation at UMG, critical to the company’s success through a period of significant business reformation. In 1998, the company ranked sixth among the six major music firms, with IT primarily in the back office. In less than a decade, UMG now reigns as the industry’s leading music company, with IT appropriately at the heart of the entire business operations spectrum and future strategy.
Prior to his current role, from 1998 through 2004, Belmont was responsible for all of UMG’s North American IT activities during which time he was also responsible for worldwide application systems integration required by the merger of UMG and PolyGram, as well as global application strategy beyond the merger. Belmont was also later engaged to lead key enterprise-wide consumer marketing strategy for UMG’s new parent, Vivendi.
Prior to joining UMG, Belmont had a 15 year career with Electronic Data Systems (EDS). He served the company in numerous capacities from systems engineering and oversight of major systems development initiatives, to operating joint venture and total outsourcing business arrangements for a series of EDS’ premier health care industry customers.
