Vanessa Bosåen is departing Virgin Music Group, where she has led the UK arm since its 2021 launch, confirming her exit in a staff note shared with Music Business Worldwide and posted publicly on LinkedIn. Her departure follows Virgin Music Group's £775 million (USD $775 million) acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings, completed on 20 February, and a subsequent restructuring of the company's global and regional leadership announced on 30 June, which placed senior executives from both Virgin and Downtown under new co-CEOs JT Myers and Nat Pastor.

Bosåen, previously known as Vanessa Higgins, was named managing director of the UK division when Universal Music Group launched Virgin Music Label & Artist Services in February 2021, rebranding its Caroline and Caroline International operations; she had joined from Regent Street Records, the independent label and publisher she founded in 2014 after 15 years as a touring musician. In her note, she credited the UK business's growth into one of the group's flagship operations to artists and campaigns including Rema's "Calm Down", D-Block Europe, Beabadoobee, Self Esteem and Melanie C. She did not name a successor or reveal her next move; in Europe, Nick Roden was appointed President and Liz Northeast SVP and General Manager as part of the June restructuring.