Jennifer Brown

With more than two decades of strategic experience in rights management, licensing, advocacy, and support for music creators and publishers, Jennifer started her career with SOCAN in 1995 as a representative in the company's Membership department. She has held progressive leadership positions, including Vice President of SOCAN's Licensing department, before taking on the role of Senior Vice President of Operations & Reproduction Rights in 2018. Jennifer’s accomplishments include establishing SOCAN Reproduction Rights presence, guiding the company's Licensing department to record-setting results, establishing SOCAN's cost-effective and strategic restructuring, and the introduction of new and innovative customer-facing tools, all of which have resulted in improved licensing collection efforts and increased royalties distributed to SOCAN's songwriter, composer, and music publisher members. The SOCAN Board of Directors appointed Jennifer Brown to Chief Executive Officer on June 29, 2021, after she held the Interim CEO role for a year.