Warner Music Group Executive VP Kevin Liles steps down from the label and subsidiary 300 Elektra Entertainment Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 02:09 BST, 18 September 2024 | Updated: 02:09 BST, 18 September 2024 e-mail 6 shares View comments Kevin Liles, an executive vice president at Warner Music Group , announced that he was leaving the record label conglomerate on Tuesday.
The 56-year-old executive announced his news in an internal memo that he later shared on X (formerly Twitter ). Liles, who rose to the upper echelons of the music industry after getting his start as a DJ, also announced that he would be leaving Warner's subsidiary record label 300 Elektra Entertainment. He served as the chairman and CEO of the label, which was the descendant of 300 Entertainment, which he co-founded in 2012 with Lyor Cohen, Roger Gold and Todd Moscowitz.
Although Liles said his 'short-term' goals post retirement were to help elect Kamala Harris 'as the first African–American female President,' and to support Democratic candidates in the House and Senate , he didn't otherwise share a reason for his departure Warner Music Group executive Kevin Liles, 56, announced that he was leaving the record label conglomerate on Tuesday; pictured in July 2022 in London Liles served as executive vice president for Warner Music Group, as well as chairman and CEO of its subsidiary label 300 Elektra Music. He joined Warner in 2022 after it absorb.