Erin Anderson
Erin O. Anderson is a professor, entrepreneur, artist manager, mentor, and volunteer. In addition to running a company, she spends her time teaching and mentoring those around her in the space of entrepreneurship and using entrepreneurship to pursue freedom and happiness!
Erin has taught as an Adjunct Professor since 2010 at Belmont University, Vanderbilt University, O'More College of Art and Design, and Acquinas College. Her classes have included the topics of entrepreneurship, business plans, leadership, team development, professional development and serving the community through entrepreneurship.
Erin received her MBA from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Strategy and her BA from Belmont University with double major in Entrepreneurship and Music Business and a minor in Accounting.
Since founding Olivia Management in 2012, Erin has grown the company to three staff, five management clients, and a consulting business that is helping ten to fifteen clients at any given time. She led former clients The Secret Sisters to a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album in 2018, and Amanda Shires to an Americana Awards nomination and win for Best Emerging Artist in 2017.
Before starting Olivia Management, Erin worked as a product manager in Seattle at Amazon on the Music Team focusing on developing international Artist Stores and Artist Relations for the online retail giant. Before moving to Seattle, she was on the launch team for Nashville's Entrepreneur Center and helped develop the center for the city.
Erin was named a finalist in the Chamber of Commerce's Nashville Emerging Leader Awards(NELAs) in 2016 and 2018. She serves as the staff director at Owen Graduate School of Management's Accelerator Summer Business Institute and Business Immersion, volunteers to teach entrepreneurship to female inmates through the BEST program, served as the music coordinator for TEDx Nashville for three years and was one of the founding members of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Advance Nashville initiative.