Suno hired Cherry Miao as its first CFO, 3 months after the $5.4B round

Suno has a finance chief for the first time. Cherry Miao announced on LinkedIn on September 14, 2026 that she joined the AI music company as its first Chief Financial Officer, arriving from Hightouch, where she was CFO and ran finance, legal, data and revenue operations. The hire lands 3 months after Suno closed a Series D of more than $400 million at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation.

What Cherry Miao takes over at Suno

The numbers she inherits are public, and they are not small. Suno said in February 2026 that it had passed 2 million paid subscribers and $300 million in annual recurring revenue, on a $10 Pro plan and a $30 Premier plan. It counted roughly 200 employees in June and planned to grow that by as much as 70% before the end of the year.

“

Music is one of the things that makes humans human, and I’m deeply committed to the mission of using technology to bring more people the joy of creative expression.

Miao wrote that she joined because her daughter started singing before she started talking, and pointed at the 100 million people who have used Suno to make something. She thanked the founding team of Mikey Shulman, Martin Camacho and Georg Kucsko, plus investors at Menlo Ventures, Bond Capital, Forerunner, IVP, Lightspeed and Matrix.

Why the licensing deals make this a finance job, not a headcount job

A subscription business with one product is simple to account for. Suno stopped being that this year. The Warner Music licensing deal, the BMG agreement and the Believe partnership all come with money flowing back to rights holders on terms that have to be tracked, reported and audited per release. That is finance work, and it is the kind that gets expensive when it is retrofitted late.

There is also the unresolved side of the ledger. Suno is still fighting copyright cases while it signs deals elsewhere, including the one GEMA won in Munich, and reserves against that exposure sit on the CFO’s desk. Miao is not the first senior industry-facing hire either: former Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota joined earlier this year. Music Business Worldwide reported the CFO appointment first.

What this does not tell you: Suno has not said anything about an IPO, and a first CFO on its own is not evidence of one. What it does signal is that the company expects to be explaining its numbers to people outside the building, whether those people are label partners, auditors or, eventually, a court.