Knoepfle upped at Sony/ATV

MAKING A SPLASH AT THE SLASH: Sony/ATV has upped Jennifer Knoepfle to SVP Creative, giving her oversight of the pub giant’s West Coast A&R activities, formerly the responsibility of Jody Gerson. Knoepfle will run the L.A. office in tandem with SVP Business and Legal Affairs Jonas Kant. Marty Bandier hailed Knoepfle as “an outstanding A&R executive with excellent taste in music, and this new role will allow her to build on her already close relationships with our songwriters and artists and deliver new opportunities for them and Sony/ATV.” For her part, Knoepfle is “so thrilled to have been given this opportunity here at Sony/ATV. We have an incredible roster of songwriters, and I look forward to working with them more deeply in my new role.” Those writers include her own signings Foster the People, Bleachers, Broods and Lord Huron. Additionally, Sam Taylor moves up to VP Creative, the same title awarded to Amanda Berman last year. (9/3a)