Xuenou > Music > Warner Music Chief Innovation Officer Scott Cohen to StepDown
Warner Music Chief Innovation Officer Scott Cohen to StepDown
Warner Music Group chief innovation officer Scott Cohen is stepping down from his role at the end of the month.

Warner Music Chief Innovation Officer Scott Cohen to StepDown

Believe Hires Béatrice Dumurgier as New COO

Cohen, who worked as an artist manager before co-founding distribution company The Orchard in 1997, joined WMG as chief innovation officer in March 2019 after stepping down from his role at The Orchard a month prior.

Alongside co-founder Richard Gottehrer, Cohen built The Orchard into the largest independent distributor on iTunes when the download platform launched in 2003. They sold the company to Dimensional Associates that same year and subsequently expanded into video, music licensing, marketing & analytics, royalty collections, sports media, neighboring rights and more. Sony bought the company from Dimensional in March 2015 for $200 million and in 2017 merged it with RED into a single global distribution entity operating under the Orchard brand. The Orchard sold its film and TV business to 1091 Media in January 2019.

Cohen, who has been active as a public speaker and lecturer promoting new digital business models as well as emerging technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain and artificial intelligence, is also the co-founder of CyborgNest, which explores the crossover between biological and digital intelligence.