Warner Music U.K.’s Isabel Garvey Steps Down Amidst Ongoing Leadership Shuffle

LONDON — Isabel Garvey announced connected Wednesday (Oct. 8) that she would beryllium stepping down from her relation of main operations serviceman astatine Warner Music U.K. at the extremity of the year.

In an interior memo obtained by Billboard U.K., Garvey writes that she has decided “to measurement down from my role” and permission Warner Music U.K., adding that it is “the close determination for maine and for the company.”

“Without a COO role, and our statement heads joining the planetary absorption teams of Atlantic and Warner Records, the cardinal functions volition each beryllium led by Simon [Robson, president, EMEA, Recorded Music], ensuring the caller operation is elemental and the lines of accountability are clear.”

The quality comes amidst a large enactment reshuffle astatine the major’s U.K. arm. In September it was announced that Tony Harlow, main enforcement of Warner Music U.K. would beryllium exiting the business, and that respective U.K. executives from Warner Records and Atlantic Records would join the planetary enactment squad of their U.S. counterparts and collaborate much intimately crossed A&R and selling strategies.

In the memo to staff, Garvey highlighted the U.K. successes of Alex Warren, Benson Boone, Charli xcx, Ed Sheeran, Sombr and Teddy Swims in caller years, adding that the squad had “navigated a pugnacious marketplace and punched good supra our weight.” She continued, “Through a play of important change, I’ve been truthful impressed by your resilience and adaptability, and I’m arrogant of what we’ve achieved together.”

In a enactment to Warner staff, Robson praised however Garvey “shaped our attack and civilization astatine a clip of seismic alteration successful the industry, and Warner Music has benefited enormously from her strategical reasoning and caller perspective.”

Garvey assumed the relation successful May 2023 and joined pursuing a stint arsenic managing manager of Abbey Road Studios. She appeared successful Billboard U.K.‘s inaugural U.K. Power Players database successful June 2025.