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Senior-level executive in the music/entertainment industry.

Specialties: Management, negotiation, consumer marketing, global branding, touring

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Ben Kline

Co-Chair/Co-President at Warner Music Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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University at Albany, SUNY

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Congrats to my sister, Carole! And congrats to Nielsen!

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Attention passengers boarding all international ✈️ from Mexico City on

Aeromexico...#trebel #music #latam #mexico 🕺🎶🎉

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I'm excited to share that I'm speaking at CES 2024 with an amazing panel consisting

of Lindsey Slaby, Doug Martin, and Sophie Bambuck. My partner in...

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Warner Music Nashville

9 years 6 months

Co-Chair/Co-President

Jun 2022 - Present · 1 year 8 months

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

EVP/General Manager

Apr 2019 - May 2022 · 3 years 2 months

Nashville, TN

Oversee day to day label operations within radio promotion, streaming, marketing,

digital, international and touring departments for Warner Music Group's country

music division. Responsible for forecasting and achieving annual revenue and profit

goals for the division.

SVP, Global Revenue & Touring

Aug 2014 - Apr 2019 · 4 years 9 months

Nashville, TN

CEO & Founder

Brazenhead Entertainment

Mar 2012 - Jul 2014 · 2 years 5 months

Marketing and sales focused consulting group that works with record labels and artists

directly. Develops and implements strategies around digital marketing, D2C, touring,

social media and advertising to maximize exposure in the marketplace.

SVP, Global Sales & Marketing

Apr 2009 - Mar 2012 · 3 years

San Francisco, CA

Oversee all worldwide sales and marketing functions at INgrooves, an industry leading

digital media distribution and marketing company. Responsible for creating and

implementing global online marketing campaigns, sales goal strategies and third party

branding/marketing opportunities for our artists and record labels.

INgrooves

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Recommendations received

2 people have recommended Ben

EVP, Sales, Marketing and New Media

Nov 1997 - Feb 2009 · 11 years 4 months

Nashville, TN

Universal Music Group

University at Albany, SUNY

B.A. · Economics

Jon Vanhala

“BK is that rare MVP that raises all around him. His intellect, savvy, experience, and vision

always drives true value and real impact. His razor sharp creative wit is second to none

and that raises the bar for all engaged in the positive debate. My highest

recommendation and I'd be thrilled to work with BK again.”

David Zierler

“Ben is one of the most tenacious, results oriented people I have worked with and would

hope to work with him again in some capacity in the future. Ben is the consummate

professional and someone I would take on my team any day of the week.”

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Cheers to another great year working for Warner Music Group / Warner Music

Nashville! From launching record-breaking albums to celebrating wins...

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I’m sure you already follow Jay and read Your Morning Coffee, but if you don’t now

you know that you should. Excellent 2023 reviews/recaps/etc...

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Grammy Voting is open now! Please support this incredible Cast album!

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I love this song, and album. I think you will too. I'm really proud of Abigail Garcia

and the Monmouth University Blue Hawk Records students' magical...

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🌟 Closing out 2023 at FlyteVu with Gratitude 🌟   As the year draws to a close, we

extend our heartfelt gratitude to our incredible team, dedicated...

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Congratulations to our new #ACMLEVelUp cohort!

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I’m honored to be continuing on the CMA Board of Directors and am excited to be

welcoming some amazing new board members and officers!

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So pumped to announce BeatStars has partnered with the most advanced mobile

recording studio application Voloco, by Resonant Cavity, LLC. Our mission...

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Variety's Hitsmakers - A list that I'm a bit stunned and completely honored to be

included on. We work hard, but no one works harder than Bailey...

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Visiting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for PRINE ON PRINE is an honor... Getting to do

it with Fiona Whelan Prine + Lyle Lovett defies words. John was...

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