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Verve Label Group Elevates Jamie Krents to CEO and Dawn Olejar to COO at UMG Division
Verve Label Group has promoted Jamie Krents to CEO and president, and Dawn Olejar to chief operating officer at the UMG company.
Verve Label Group, the jazz and classical specialists at Universal Music, has promoted Jamie Krent s to CEO and president, and Dawn Olejar to chief operating officer, effective immediately. He was crucial in finding and acquiring the tapes for the John Coltrane album Both Directions at Once and has been instrumental in expanding Verve’s artist roster beyond jazz, signing talents like Jon Batiste, Kurt Vile, Arooj Aftab, Joy Oladokun, Shabaka Hutchings and Samara Joy. Olejar, who has served as executive vp at VLG for the last seven years and added general manager duties two years ago, has played a key role in cementing Decca Records US as the leading label on the Billboard Classical Chart, and in recent years has led high-profile domestic campaigns for Verve artists including Andrea Bocelli, Ludovico Einaudi, Diana Ross, Lang Lang and Chad Lawson, among others.
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