Executive Turntable: Hannah Carlen Succeeds Dan Cohen as Nonesuch Marketing Chief, Plus 1916 Partners Up

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Hannah Carlen

Hannah Carlen Eleanor Perry

Nonesuch Records has named indie euphony seasoned Hannah Carlen arsenic vice president of selling and communications, succeeding Dan Cohen, who led the section since 2018. Based successful New York and reporting to statement president David Bither, Carlen volition oversee marketing, sales, publicity, caller media and contented instauration for the Warner Music Group label.

Carlen brings extended acquisition from her tenure astatine Secretly Group and All Flowers Group, wherever she served arsenic elder manager of selling and communications. She helped signifier campaigns for acclaimed Secretly acts specified arsenic Bon Iver, Phoebe Bridgers, Japanese Breakfast, Khruangbin, Mitski and Faye Webster. Beginning her vocation successful Portland, Ore., Carlen worked successful vigor promotion for noncommercial and Triple A formats, supporting artists similar Daft Punk, PJ Harvey, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Portishead.

Joining Secretly Group successful 2011 arsenic vigor director, she led palmy campaigns for The War connected Drugs, Angel Olsen, Phosphorescent, Unknown Mortal Orchestra,and Sharon Van Etten, arsenic good arsenic organisation releases by Sufjan Stevens and Mac DeMarco. In 2017, Carlen became Secretly’s archetypal U.S. selling director, expanding the section and driving strategical maturation for 8 years. In 2024, she besides joined All Flowers Group’s selling leadership, moving connected projects for Ginger Root, Dua Saleh, THEY., Annahstasia and Yaya Bey.

“The stableness of Nonesuch’s absorption squad has been 1 of our large strengths implicit the years. Dan made important contributions to Nonesuch implicit astir a decennary with america and we are present fortunate to person idiosyncratic of Hannah’s expertise and judgement to instrumentality implicit this captious role,” said Bither. “I americium grateful that Nonesuch volition payment from the affluent acquisition she brings us.”

Carlen expressed heavy admiration for Nonesuch’s bequest and artist-first approach, calling the statement “one of the champion and astir indispensable grounds labels of each time.” She added, “Equally peculiar is the location that Nonesuch makes for artists, the ways this squad supports their work, and the patience and attraction Nonesuch brings to creator development.

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