{"id":103806,"date":"2024-10-03T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/verve-label-group-elevates-jamie-krents-to-ceo-and-dawn-olejar-to-coo-at-umg-division-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:06:24","slug":"verve-label-group-elevates-jamie-krents-to-ceo-and-dawn-olejar-to-coo-at-umg-division-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/10\/03\/verve-label-group-elevates-jamie-krents-to-ceo-and-dawn-olejar-to-coo-at-umg-division-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Verve Label Group Elevates Jamie Krents to CEO and Dawn Olejar to COO at UMG\u00a0Division"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tVerve Label Group, the jazz and classical specialists at Universal Music, has promoted Jamie Krent<\/strong>s to CEO and president, and Dawn Olejar<\/strong> to chief operating officer, effective immediately. They will now lead the strategy for the entire group, comprised of storied labels like Verve Records, Impulse! Records and Decca Records US, along with international label partners Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon and others.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019ll continue to report to Krents\u2019 predecessor in the top job at VLG, Dickon Stainer<\/strong>, who was recently elevated<\/a> to chairman and CEO of Universal Music UK and is keeping his title of chairman of Verve. Both Krents and Olejar are based out of the label group\u2019s New York City offices.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tExecutive of the Week: Verve, Impulse! & Verve Forecast Executive VP Jamie\u00a0Krents\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tStainer congratulated Krents and Olejar on their promotions, highlighting Krents\u2019 \u201clong-standing reputation and commitment to nurturing and breaking artists globally,\u201d and Olejar\u2019s strategic leadership. He expressed confidence in their ability to lead VLG\u2019s roster of legendary labels into the future.<\/p>\n

\n\tKrents started at Verve in 1998 as a temp and worked his way up to become executive vp in 2019 and later president of the group in 2022. 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\u2019s artist roster beyond jazz, signing talents like Jon Batiste, Kurt Vile, Arooj Aftab, Joy Oladokun, Shabaka Hutchings and Samara Joy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor someone who grew up literally treasuring and studying Verve, Impulse! and Decca recordings, this appointment is beyond thrilling,\u201d said Krents. \u201cGetting to work with artists of the caliber that we have on the Verve Label Group roster is such an honor and it\u2019s particularly exciting to get to take on this role alongside Dawn and the rest of the Verve Label Group team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOlejar, who has served as executive vp at VLG for the last seven years and added<\/a> 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\u00a0Andrea Bocelli, Ludovico Einaudi,\u00a0Diana Ross,\u00a0Lang Lang\u00a0and\u00a0Chad Lawson, among others. In this new role as COO, Olejar will have the continued responsibility of overseeing the team at Verve Label Group. Prior to joining Verve, she was general manager at RPM Music Productions.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to continue working with Jamie and our amazing team to build upon the great work that we\u2019ve been doing at VLG,\u201d Olejar said. \u201cA very big thank you to Dickon for his endless guidance and support. We work with the most talented artists in the world and I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Verve Label Group, the jazz and classical specialists at Universal Music, has promoted Jamie Krents to CEO and president, and Dawn Olejar to chief operating officer, effective immediately. They will now lead the strategy for the entire group, comprised of storied labels like Verve Records, Impulse! Records and Decca Records US, along with international label […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}