The Golden State: Riser House's Meghan Patrick with the label’s Roger Fregoso and KSON/San Diego's Jessica Chenoweth (top) and Fregoso, KNCI/Sacramento's Sonia Jimenez and Chad Rufer (bottom, l-r) at Country In The Park.
Signage: Singer/songwriter Colton Dawson signs with Warner Records Nashville and TKO Artist Management. Pictured (front, l-r) are TKO's TK Kimbrell, Dawson and WRN's Cris Lacy; (back, l-r) TKO's Cassie Petty, WRN's Stephanie Davenport and TKO's Jordan Bernal.
Caesar Dressin': Wheelhouse's Blake Shelton (c) with KWNR's MoJoe Roberts (l) and the label's Steve Pleshe at his Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace.
Hell Of A Way To Bro: Nash. Harbor's Riley Green (c) with WKHX’s Lucas Phelan (l) and the label's Ryan Dokke at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre outside Atlanta.
Insta-Graham: Disruptor/Sony Music Nashville's Graham Barham (c) with WKDF/Nashville's Erin Merimonti and Jesse James.
Industry veteran Shane Allen has joined Riser House as EVP/Promotion & Artist Brand Strategy. The company has also promoted nine-year company veteran Megan Stottlemyer from Label Manager to VP/Label Operations, VP/Streaming & Strategic Partnerships Alex Heimerman to Head/Marketing & Label Strategy and Dir./Business Affairs Jason VanAuken to VP of that department.
Most recently with Eric Church's SiriusXM channel, Outsiders Radio (CAT 11/28/22), Allen previously spent six years at Columbia, where he was SVP/Promotion, joining from the VP/Promotion role at Capitol/Nashville. Allen joined Capitol in 2007, left for a short stint with Red Light Management at the begining of 2009, then returned to Capitol in August of that year. When the label merged with UMG/Nashville in 2012, he held that title for all four of UMGN's imprints. Reach him here.
Stottlemyer joined Riser House full-time from an intern position in Jan. 2017, was named Product Mgr./Marketing Head that July and promoted to Label Manager in 2022 (CAT 11/18/22). Reach her here. Heimerman joined Riser House last year from The Trenches (CAT 6/3/25), with previous stops at MCA and Red Light; reach him here. VanAuken has been with the company since its launch in 2017; reach him here.
