Caren Kelleher is the Founder & CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl, named one of the "Most Innovative Companies of 2020" by Fast Company magazine for its efforts in "revolutionizing record pressing” out of her factory in Austin, Texas.

Since opening its doors in Spring 2018, Gold Rush Vinyl has pressed records for thousands of musicians and record labels to help them answer the renewed $1B demand for vinyl records. Under Caren's leadership, Gold Rush Vinyl has also expanded into making 24-karat gold and platinum records for the RIAA and top-selling artists.

Before starting Gold Rush Vinyl, Caren was Head of Music App Partnerships at Google Play, managing key relationships with app developers like Spotify, Pandora and Shazam. She was originally recruited to Google in 2011 to launch Google Music and its products for independent musicians. Prior to Google, Caren led business development at Songkick and ran a boutique band management firm with her sister, aptly called Sister Management. She started her career as the marketing lead of Paste magazine.

Caren holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA from Emory University, where she was a Women’s Water Polo captain. She is proud to serve as an elected officer of the Recording Academy's Texas chapter and to sit on the boards of the Lemon-Aid Project (empowering kids to be impactful entrepreneurs and philanthropists) and Project Traction (closing the gender gap in music production and engineering). For her impact in the community Caren was awarded “Best CEO of 2023” by the Austin Business Journal and named to the Forbes Next 1000 list of entrepreneurs reshaping American small business.