Spotify's deep legal executive Hansen has left and worked for the company for ten years

As soon as word got out that Francis Keeling, Spotify's global licensing executive, was leaving, industry insiders learned that Petra Hansson, Spotify's most senior executive, had left the company.

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soon as news of the departure of Francis Keeling, Spotify's global licensing executive, came out, industry insiders learned that Spotify's most senior executive, Petra Hansson, had left the company.

Hansen is Spotify's senior legal executive and has been with the company for a decade.

She was recruited by headhunters from Swedish law firm Mannheimer Swartling in 2007. That year, Spotify had not officially launched its service, and all its employees still lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Stockholm.

According to a music industry executive: "Spotify has lost a prominent executive at the company. Negotiating with Petra always feels stressful."

Hansen and Keeling are just two key executives who recently left Spotify. In fact, Spotify has lost multiple executives in the past year, such as chief revenue officer Jeff Levick, chief content officer Ken Parks, EMEA regional sales director Jonathan Forster, and record industry liaison officer Steve Savoca.

Savoka has a high reputation in the record industry. After leaving Spotify, he joined Apple's Apple Music division and served as a director in the New York branch, responsible for managing the relationship between the company and the record industry.

After Keeling and Hansen leave, it is expected that leadership of the licensing business will fall to the company's general counsel, Horacio Gutierrez.

Since Spotify's long-term contracts with major record labels expired, those labels have managed to sign new streaming licensing agreements with SoundCloud, Pandora, iHeartRadio and Amazon.

However, negotiations between Spotify and the record company will continue to drag on. Spotify hopes that record companies will accept the new share conditions and reduce the record company's share ratio from 55% to 52% or even 51%.

Spotify announced last month that it would create 1000 new jobs in New York.

It is understandable that these new jobs may come at the expense of Sweden's growth. Daniel Ek, CEO of the company, has said before that the price of running a large business is high.

Editor: Nancy