Ben Patashnik ()

Ben Patashnik is Head of Editorial for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands at Spotify, where he leads the editorial teams in London and Amsterdam responsible for the platform's playlists and programming in those markets.

He has spent two decades working across the music business. He started as a journalist at NME, then worked in international expansion across multiple territories at an independent label group before moving into marketing strategy for global labels at Downtown. At Spotify, his focus is the role of human curation as listening becomes more personalised: making sure editorial judgement continues to shape which artists break through and how music culture is discovered.