james pearsonJames Pearson, executive VP of corporate communications for digital music service Grooveshark, has moved to music discovery app Shazam as VP of global commmunications.

He takes a role vacated in June by Brendan Lewis, who joined the tech PR firm The Pramana Collective.

The popular Shazam app, which claims 120M users, allows users to identify songs playing and to view lyrics, as well as buy the tracks, concert tickets or albums. Revenue for the UK-based company is around $55M.

Pearson is former EVP of corporate coms. for interactive TV service BrightLine and earlier worked corporate comms. for MindsInSync and Audible, as well as its acquirer Amazon.

He is based in New York.