John Holborow
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John Holborow (b. 4 February 1967) is the Managing Director of Beggars Banquet Records[1] the largest independent record label in the UK, a group of labels which includes XL Recordings[2] and 4AD[3]. Since joining the company in 1989 Holborow has overseen ten chart topping albums in the UK in a career that has seen the label group achieve dramatic growth in the UK and overseas with the release of albums from a range of genre defining artists including The Cult[4], The Charlatans[5],The Prodigy[6], The Pixies, The White Stripes[7], Dizzee Rascal[8], Basement Jaxx[9], Thom Yorke, and Dead Can Dance.
Holborow is a non-executive Director of Consolidated Independent Limited[10] a technology services company for the independent music industry.
He has addressed the Association of Independent Music, the Music Business Society at the London School of Ecomonics[11] and The Music Tank[12] amongst other industry and educational institutions.
Holborow was educated at Eton College[13] and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[14].
