A new profile of Apple Music’s VP, Oliver Schusser from Billboard takes a detailed look at how his leadership has affected the team as well as the service’s growth and results over the last year. Colleagues describe him as “a partner, a great listener and a champion of innovation” and he’s optimistic about the future of Apple Music.

While Oliver Schusser has over 15 years experience at Apple in building the international operations for iTunes, taking over Apple Music happened just last year. In the time since he’s become the VP of the service, Apple Music has grown from 40 million subscribers to 60 million and the team appears to be invigorated by their new leader.

Other leaders at Apple and in the music industry describe Schusser as very calm and a master of details.

Apple Music’s global senior director of editorial, Rachel Newman shared her thoughts on how Schusser was able to make such positive change in just a year, including interpersonal skills and touches like remembering birthdays.

As for Schusser’s vision of Apple Music, it lines up with Apple’s overall philosophy of being at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.

He shared more about what that means in the context of Apple Music.

When it comes to results, Schusser says he’s not looking just at the numbers (even though Apple Music is currently growing faster than Spotify).

The changes since Schusser has taken over have also been noted by leaders at music labels.

Other changes at Apple Music over the last year include more women in leadership roles than ever before with the service also sending out updates faster.

Last month I spent time with Oliver Schusser and the new executive team leading Apple Music. The service is shipping updates faster, there are more women in power than ever before, and Schusser has brought a focus on global growth to Apple Music 👇🏾https://t.co/u3imGE8niO

— Micah Singleton (@MicahSingleton) July 25, 2019

Schusser notes that he’s pleased with where Apple Music is after its first four years and that it aims to move forward with the goal of being “the best partners for labels, publishers and songwriters.”

Find the full Billboard interview here.