Hazan New Epic GM

FROM MIT TO EPIC: Lynn Hazan is the latest addition to L.A. Reid’s new Epic as GM/CFO. She’ll have full responsibility for label operations, including finance, business and legal affairs, and contract administration, reporting to COO Mark Shimmel. She comes to the label from RED and IODA, where she was EVP/GM, overseeing the integration of the latter into the former as back end for delivery of music to digital service providers. Hazan was named one of the top “Women In Music” for 2011. Once an intern at management company RZO, she has been a road manager and tour accountant for Lollapalooza and a CFO of RCA Records, and has worked with the international finance group at BMG. Lynn attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received her MBA from The Wharton School. The label will reportedly announce a head of sales next. (1/23p)