Variety’s Business Managers Elite of 2025

Reggie Gooden
Founder & managing associate
Kymberli Corridor
Enterprise supervisor
360 Enterprise Administration

Prior to now yr, 360 Administration has tripled its consumer roster, quadrupled its employees and expanded into two Los Angeles workplaces. It handles a mixture of music (60%), movie and TV (30%), and digital and sports activities expertise (10%), the latter of which incorporates former NBA All-Star Baron Davis, NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and MMA fighter Anderson Silva, who all got here aboard with the rent of latest associate Lisa Behringer within the fall of 2025. Different shoppers embrace Cedric the Entertainer, Bella Thorne, January Jones, Frankie Shaw, Diana Nyad, YouTube creator CashNasty, musicians Devon “Stixx” Taylor, Saweetie and Cory Henry. Agency founder Gooden counsels all shoppers to keep up a stable monetary basis. “Within the uncommon occasion the place they arrive with some loopy concept that they need to execute, I’ll all the time simply steer them again to fundamentals,” he says.

Principal and enterprise supervisor
Abacus Monetary Enterprise Administration

Anakwenze offers all her shoppers — which embrace actor Jay Ellis (“Prime Gun: Maverick”) and “ET” host Kevin Frazier — the identical no-nonsense recommendation  in as we speak’s unsure financial local weather: create a number of income streams, diversify investments and be frugal with money. Grateful that none of her shoppers had been immediately impacted by this yr’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires, Anakwenze intently reviewed their insurance coverage insurance policies. “We did our due diligence, ensuring that if something ever does occur to our shoppers the place they’re immediately impacted, they’re coated. We double-checked coverage traces and what’s coated and what’s not coated and acquired further insurance policies if wanted. It was an eye-opener for us to double-check every part.”

David Levin
Managing director, David Levin Enterprise Administration, a division of Adeptus Advisors
Ellis Beber
Michael Nelson
Companions, enterprise administration, David Levin Enterprise Administration, a division of Adeptus Advisors
Allison Krant
Senior director, enterprise administration
Adeptus Advisors

Levin, Beber and Nelson are a part of the New York Metropolis-based David Levin Enterprise Administration, which turned a division of a lot larger Adeptus Advisors again in 2019. Nelson believes the merger offers one of the best of each worlds to its shoppers, which embrace John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, the Black Crowes, Madison Beer, Hailey Bieber, Lake Avenue Dive, Edie Falco and clothier Nicole Miller. “Whereas we’re capable of preserve a boutique method to consumer service, we even have the assets of a bigger agency,” says Nelson. “So, if we have to usher in royalty divisions, audits, no matter it might be, we’re in a position to try this, however nonetheless preserve that hand-holding method.” Beber, who additionally provides tour accounting providers, says he’s noticing a brand new development with insurance coverage protection. “Loads of shoppers are taking non-appearance protection as a result of even local weather change will be one thing that may affect.”

Anthony Bonsignore, Steven Pregiato
Managing companions
David Altman
Associate
Altman, Greenfield & Selvaggi

Though Bonsignore and Pregiato are based mostly in New York and Altman in Los Angeles, this trio is a powerfully cohesive crew. Every has his personal roster of A-list shoppers that span most areas of the leisure business. Bonsignore’s shoppers embrace Dakota Johnson, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, David Harbour and Sterling Ok. Brown. Altman’s embrace Donald Glover, John Goodman, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. And Pregiato’s embrace Peter Dinklage, Christina Ricci and John Turturro. Altman, Bonsignore and Pregiato collaborate with their consumer’s representatives to establish distinctive enterprise and profession alternatives. Whereas L.A. continues to be the nation’s leisure hub, working in abroad productions can affect shoppers. “I’ve had shoppers transferring out of Los Angeles,” Altman says. “A few of them in search of tax benefits of doing it, a few of them in search of life-style and simply feeling they don’t have to essentially be right here for the work that they need to do.”

Tate Henshaw
COO, co-founder
Lorne Clark
CEO, co-founder
ARC Enterprise Administration

Overseeing greater than $100 million in income from a wide range of athletic superstars, A-list actors and in style musicians, Atlanta’s ARC Enterprise Administration co-founders Henshaw and Clark’s mixed acumen contains fintech, property planning, royalty administration and wealth technique. However they really feel their philosophy surrounding wealth is slightly completely different than most enterprise managers. “Usually, we come at it from a extra protecting standpoint,” Henshaw explains. “Whether or not you’re speaking an NBA participant, an actress, an artist, and so on., they don’t perceive that you just don’t actually must be aggressive to realize your targets, you simply don’t must be silly. Once you’ve generated a number of earnings, you would possibly really feel like you’ll want to roll the cube, however, in actuality, you in all probability don’t.”

Craig Manzino
Jason Zayon
Companions-in-charge
Robert Abramowitz
Associate
Olga Goldovskaya
Director
Armanino Advisory

The Armanino quartet has helped develop the agency into a big complete enterprise administration groups. Manzino and Zayon’s shoppers embrace actors, producers, administrators, writers, musicians, high-net-worth people and enterprise house owners. Abramowitz focuses on sports activities figures, advising shoppers on deal structuring, M&A and enterprise ventures like manufacturing firms, podcasts, YouTube channels and different non-entertainment investments. Goldovskaya is a go-to exec for influencers and content material creators. All of them educate and empower shoppers to make sensible monetary choices, with AI being a standard matter as of late. “AI, it’s not coming – it’s right here. And this isn’t a check,” Manzino says, earlier than pondering, “I don’t know if these AI actors should file tax returns,” referencing business buzz over AI actress Tilly Norwood and an AI music artist being supplied a $3 million deal.

Marc Rosen
Samuel Levin
Companions
Aiden Tascic
Director
Armanino Advisory

With Rosen based mostly in New York and Levin and Tascic in two completely different workplaces in Los Angeles, this trio affords high- and ultra-high-wealth shoppers all through showbiz sage recommendation. Whereas the business adjusts to a brand new regular ensuing from the 2023 twin strikes — notably fewer movie and TV productions and extra overseas shoots — Rosen, Tascic and Levin have helped preserve their shoppers’ earnings streams flowing throughout sluggish intervals by encouraging sensible funding choices throughout extra profitable intervals. Doing meaning staying on high of ever-mutating tax legal guidelines and adapting to vary. They encourage employees to make use of AI to assist with repetitive duties. “I’ve seen plenty of cool issues our employees is doing by way of robotic processing,” Rosen says. “Summarizing difficult contracts or paperwork, spreadsheet work. There’s a number of issues occurring which are making folks extra environment friendly.”

Evan Bell
Managing associate
Liza de Leon
Senior associate
Yifan Yang
Tax and monetary administration supervisor
Carrie Zhao
Shue Zhu
Enterprise managers
Bell and Firm CPAs

Over the previous yr, Bell has helped 4 shoppers transfer to London, doing every part from addressing tax and residency points to discovering, financing and buying their houses. “They notice they’re not filming in the US anymore,” explains Bell. “There’s no purpose for them to be right here. And politically, they’re sad right here, and so they’re feeling that life in Europe is healthier and simpler for them.” Along with its expat experience, the agency additionally has a rep for being adept at dealing with stand-up comics similar to Andrew Santino, Stavros Halkias, Tom Papa and Adam Ray, and it has just lately branched out into the showrunner realm with new shoppers together with Jonathan Tropper and Francesca Sloane. Bell’s proper hand is De Leon, who’s been with the agency for greater than 30 years and as we speak oversees the enterprise administration division of the apply, with shoppers that embrace Steven Soderbergh, Robert Eggers, Emily Deschanel and Carmen Cuba.

Adam Sansiveri
Co-lead, regional senior managing director, Nashville
Stacie Jacobsen
Co-lead, nationwide director of consumer engagement, Los Angeles
Chris Brigham
Co-lead, senior analysis analyst, New York
Dan Weisman
Principal, advisor specialist
Bernstein Sports activities & Leisure Group

A division of Bernstein Personal Wealth Administration, its sports activities and leisure crew has members based mostly in Nashville (former Broadway producer Sansiveri and Grammy-nominated ex-music supervisor Weisman), Los Angeles (Jacobsen) and New York (analysis evaluation Brigham). Their mission: assist shoppers align monetary choices with their core values. Sansiveri says the shared mindset of entertainers and athletes has “shifted in direction of, ‘How can I maximize my worth with my time within the highlight to increase my earnings capabilities?’ That could be creating companies [or] incomes fairness in firms, however [it’s] actually [about] leveraging their model energy to additional the model itself.” Weisman’s instance: his former administration consumer Mike Posner, the Detroit hitmaker he helped pivot into the wellness house by way of well being beverage producers AG1 Athletic Greens. “It was an awesome consequence on each entrance,” says Sansiveri. “He acquired paid to endorse them and was capable of put money into the corporate that’s rising alongside together with his foray into the wellness house.” 

Managing associate
Enterprise Wealth & Tax Administration

Shaheen does greater than assist shoppers handle their cash. He invests his time, power and experience in his shoppers, which embrace Jared Leto, Noname, Burna Boy, Kenny Beats and Mk.gee. By doing that he turns into a trusted associate. Someday he would possibly assist a consumer substitute misplaced bank cards or plan for his or her beneficiaries, and the following he is likely to be strolling them by way of shopping for insurance coverage. “Insurance coverage is nasty. It’s not enjoyable. It’s not as simple as folks suppose. And it’s additionally expensive,” Shaheen says. “On the identical time, I additionally perceive the significance of getting insurance coverage. It actually comes again to what’s proper for each consumer’s distinctive circumstance.”

Douglas Cammarano (not pictured)
Jean Lee
Maria del Pilar Lopez
Companions
Wayne Kamemoto
Associate, music business apply chief
Citrin Cooperman

Citrin Cooperman gives a potpourri of providers to its roster of A-listers from the music and cinema worlds, together with tax compliance, royalty audits providers, insurance coverage protection procurement and property planning. “We have now very deep, trusting relationships with our shoppers,” says Lee. “We’re actually right here as their quarterback, to arrange their property planning conferences, their insurance coverage conferences, get all the knowledge, put it down in bullet factors and ensure they’re protected. That’s our primary precedence.” However there are all the time challenges. Del Pilar Lopez says it’s gotten so powerful to acquire well timed U.S. visas that a few of her touring shoppers are pressured to cancel their treks. “We used to plan six months upfront for visas — now it’s a yr and a half to 2 years,” Lopez explains. “Generally visas get revoked with little rationalization. It’s been a nightmare.”

Founding associate
CRM Administration, a division of NKSFB

New York-based Malcolm has seen a rising development with some members of her enviable roster, which incorporates David Duchovny, Ethan Hawke, Sofia Coppola, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Connelly, Heather Graham, Ariana DeBose, Sophie Turner, Anderson Cooper and Griffin Dunne. A couple of have been so profitable at monetizing their social media presence that they’re not beholden to the previous one-for-me/one-for-them philosophy concerning ardour vs. payday tasks. “They’re making a number of their cash from vogue and posting and issues like that,” she says. “It permits folks to do the work they need to do as a result of they’ll get cash from that and nonetheless do attention-grabbing films.”

President
Davis Monetary Group

Since departing the big enterprise administration agency MGO throughout the pandemic to hang around her personal shingle, Davis has discovered that she’s “not as scheduled 24-7” with issues like inner conferences and journey. This offers her extra time to deal with her shoppers, which embrace above-the-title actors, writers, producers, administrators and different high-net-worth people. Over the previous yr, she’s dealt with quite a few difficult actual property transactions, arrange and managed a number of companies for her shoppers, and, after all, talked to them about AI. “I’m listening to that they’re utilizing AI to assist them of their day by day lives for various issues,” says Davis, “however they’re afraid of what it’s going to be for the business.”

Sally Velazquez
President
Tracy Miller
VP, operations
Empower Enterprise Administration

With Velazquez and Miller on the helm, Empower has grown alongside longtime shoppers like 21 Savage. Whether or not discussing catalog gross sales or find out how to make investments funds, their enterprise is so sturdy that Empower is including a second workplace to higher serve East Coast and U.Ok. shoppers. Whereas Velazquez appreciates how AI can enhance productiveness, listening to an AI musician was supplied a $3 million contract scares her. “You may make [AI] sound like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey put collectively, however how are we going to attach with the music? Music is one thing you hook up with as a narrative. The rationale Taylor Swift is so in style is as a result of we take heed to her songs and need to know who she’s speaking about, or as a result of we like her and her backstory.”

Elizabeth Campos
Founding associate
Jack Sinoryan
Founding associate
Evolve Enterprise Administration

Should you don’t suppose Elizabeth Campos is as resourceful as she is resilient, you haven’t heard about how she was just lately beneficial by an A-lister to assist a buddy who was about to lose her house to public sale. “That was no straightforward job,” remembers Campos, who has 27 years of enterprise administration expertise beneath her belt. “However I saved every part, having the agility and the assets to get it completed. It’s an actual testomony to what we do at Evolve.” Evolve has solely been round 15 months, however Campos and Sinoryan, who focuses on taxation, suppose its measurement makes for a pleasant consumer match for its high-profile actor-and-musician roster. “Being a smaller agency permits us to make choices faster,” says Sinoryan, whose proactive method, reasonably than a reactive one, eliminates hurdles.

Paul Barnabee
Director of West Coast operations
Julie Boos
Proprietor, chairman
David Boyer
Proprietor, vp
Jamie Cheek
Proprietor, CEO
Duane Clark
Proprietor, president
Carmen Romano
Proprietor, vp
FBMM

FBMM’s Nashville-based CEO/co-owner Cheek says the adage “fame earlier than fortune” could be very true. “Creatives suppose that they need to be making and have some huge cash means earlier than it begins to build up.” VP/co-owner Romano, who works out of the 35-year-old agency’s New York workplace, concurs, including it’s not simply the shoppers who suppose that but additionally these round them. “I all the time say that the toughest a part of the job is defending the consumer from themselves,” he says. A philosophy of economic well being and power is being promoted to a consumer roster that features A-list musical artists similar to Keith City, Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Luke Combs and Kings of Leon. In accordance with Cheek, some touring prices have elevated considerably for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic, a development attributed to the big variety of acts now on the street. “Artists are having to lock in 12-month longer-term bus leases in an effort to safe the seven buses that they want for 5 months, as a result of everyone else is doing it. That isn’t sustainable.”

Heads, enterprise administration
Focus Companions Wealth

Working for a corporation that has been rebranded from the Colony Group to Focus Companions Wealth, this primary couple of enterprise administration has been fortunately married 26 years and at present preside over $150 billion price of property from their Calabasas workplace.  Amir Malek — whose shoppers vary from Grammy-winning, multi-platinum-selling recording artists and quite a few music producers, TV and movie administrators, social media influencers and sports activities leisure manufacturers — focuses on home and worldwide tax compliance, catalog analysis, treasury administration and monetary concierge providers. Pam Malek is a famend knowledgeable in live performance tour planning and related world budgeting, live performance merch commerce and tax planning for celebrity musicians. Pam notes that if a consumer has an emergency, the duo is resourceful.

Founding principal
Ahead Enterprise Administration

Curry says he’s hit his stride together with his boutique agency, which has a roster that spans musical artists and producers (the Audibles, Dave Hamelin, Angélica Garcia), document labels (Kartel Music), actors (Holt McCallany, Kelly Greyson), administrators (Anya Adams), showrunners (Mary Leah Sutton), voiceover artists (Rino Romano, Gray Griffin) and influencers (Danny Casale, Caleb Simpson). However that doesn’t imply there aren’t challenges. An knowledgeable at monitoring artists’ royalties, he continuously sees new shoppers wrestle to supply a complete checklist of their credit. “I’m like, ‘So that you’re an proprietor of a shoe retailer? You don’t have a list of your footwear?’’ says Curry. “We mainly discover out that greater than half the stuff this consumer has has by no means been collected.”

Companions
Freemark Monetary

The business is contracting, however Freemark’s shoppers are doing fairly properly, thanks. Throughout dangerous occasions, “the sturdy firms get stronger, proper? And, the weak firms are inclined to exit of enterprise,” says Rodriguez, whose roster contains cinematographers Greig Fraser (“Dune” films), Hoyte van Hoytema (“Oppenheimer”) and Linus Sandgren (“Jay Kelly”), Accenture Track CEO David Droga, the manufacturing shingle Smuggler and ad company Mojo Grocery store. Nonetheless, his associate Meyer (who handles “Depraved” director Jon M. Chu and actors Jessica Chastain, Kelly Giddish, Kathryn Hahn, Ellen Pompeo, Alexander Skarsgård, Vince Vaughn and Constance Wu) says some shoppers have explored transferring away from excessive earnings tax states like California, however, “as they spent extra time within the state the place they had been considering transferring to, they determined there’s possibly some the explanation why we don’t need to do that.”

CEO and managing director
Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman

Beem is proud to hold on the legacy of 58-year-old Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, which he joined in 1998. Since being named CEO in 2022, he has continued to symbolize A-list expertise in movie, music and tv, whereas strengthening the movie’s capabilities as a enterprise administration hub for father or mother firm Focus Monetary Companions, constructing its accounting, tax, royalty examination and movie participation accountings, valuation providers and tour accounting. “Issues are ever-changing, and we have now to be versatile,” he says.

Managing administrators
Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman

Since being acquired by Focus Monetary Companions in 2017, Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman has been capable of make the most of its father or mother firm’s huge attain and infrastructure. However for this sextet of Los Angeles-based managing administrators, the nuts and bolts of servicing their roster of A-list stars, administrators, musicians, producers, manufacturing firms, composers, athletes, influencers, execs and ultra-high-net-worth people stays largely the identical because it’s all the time been. “Possibly there are just a few extra bank cards or just a few extra payments to pay,” says Cohn. “The complication comes with the planning. There are a lot of extra alternatives on the market for us to analysis for our shoppers.” They’re additionally serving to shoppers discover the concept of leaving California or New York to cut back their taxes or the US for political causes. “They are saying, ‘We simply acquired completed filming within the U.Ok. What if I don’t come again?’” explains Lloyd. “I say check the waters,” provides Cohn. “The grass isn’t all the time greener.”

Managing administrators
Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman

Kamelhar and Pamer are two of the enterprise administration stars in Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman’s New York Metropolis workplace. Pamer encourages his various cross-section of movie, TV, music and vogue business shoppers to focus extra on investments like shares, as a result of “portfolios price little or no cash to keep up and develop extra quickly than private actual property does.” Kamelhar is extra music-focused, dealing with profitable excursions for shoppers Paul Simon and Def Leppard in 2025, whereas persevering with to help in overseeing Billy Joel’s music and publishing catalogs. AI is high of thoughts for a lot of of his shoppers, who, like different celebs, concern its potential abuses, however are additionally excited by its upsides, from utilizing it to guard their copyright pursuits to its potential as a artistic software. With AI, “you could possibly have 30 samples inside 10 minutes to sort of open up your thoughts to find out how to work.”

Associate
Gettleson Witzer & O’Connor

Gettleson — who counts Gracie Abrams, Ava DuVernay and Sterlin Harjo amongst his shoppers — says world unrest and uncertainty have some high-wealth shoppers eager to shift investments to gold, crypto and authorized offshore accounts. He understands the need to guard their property, however AI isn’t making his job simpler. “AI turns into one other Google — shoppers are excellent at getting tax recommendation from a trusted supply known as Google,” he says. “They’ll say, ‘Hey, I appeared this up, right here it’s.’ It’s possibly three-quarters of the way in which there, however there’s generally some massive flaws we have now to work by way of to ensure the knowledge is right.”

CEO, founder
Gold Enterprise Administration

Soul songwriter Teddy Swims, boygenius’ Julien Baker, heavy metallic kingpins Lamb of God and Gojira and L.A.-based music and sports activities administration firm Milk & Honey are only a few of Gold’s longtime shoppers, a few of whom have been with him and his employees of six for many years. Based mostly in Port Washington, N.Y., Gold — whose agency affords a variety of providers starting from bookkeeping and tour and royalty accounting to enterprise formation and monetary reporting — stresses that readability and comprehension are his priorities when explaining monetary issues. “I’m coping with artistic folks and translating these numbers right into a dialect they perceive,” says Gold, a Wharton College of Enterprise graduate with a bachelor’s diploma
in economics.

Managing administrators
Floor Management Enterprise Administration

Floor Management has three workplaces within the L.A. space and a pair within the U.Ok., with 43 workers and executives on the beck and name of its roster of actors, producers, writers, administrators, skilled athletes and entrepreneurs. They supply shoppers every part from CFO and household workplace providers to monetary and property planning. However probably the most helpful issues they provide is primary, common sense recommendation, like Gonzalez’s mantra “get it in writing and ensure there’s a path someplace” and Borda’s pleading “don’t make a rash resolution.” Most of all, shoppers have to suppose long- time period, suggests Shelley: “I had a consumer who swore he was going to die from most cancers at 60 and he’s 70 now,” he relates. “Now we’re speaking about retirement methods he didn’t take into consideration earlier than.”

Enterprise managers
Guterman & Rosenberg

The ten-member boutique agency shaped in 2021 supervises the monetary welfare of distinguished digital media personalities, rappers and DJs, in addition to conventional movie and TV expertise. It takes a forward-looking method to AI, using the ever-changing tech to higher serve its roster. “We’re utilizing AI to summarize a number of work with our shoppers,” says Guterman. “[With] our total software program, our means of paying payments, our means of communication, we’re much more nimble than different corporations, and know-how permits us to try this.” Provides Rosenberg: “AI has been useful for us in explaining ideas to our non-business-minded shoppers. They know we have now their again.”

Gary Schneider
Managing associate
Jason Schneider
Associate
Kessler, Schneider & Scheltinga

Enterprise administration has been a household affair for father-and-son crew Gary and Jason Schneider: Gary’s enterprise supervisor father based Gurley Schneider, whereas his brother-in-law, David Weise, has his personal agency that’s a division of NKFSB.  “I all the time figured this path was destined for me in some unspecified time in the future,” says Jason, who achieved his CPA and tax grasp accreditation after becoming a member of Kessler, Schneider & Scheltinga. Gary says the duo is aware of each side of the boutique enterprise, with a pair of workplaces within the Sherman Oaks and Brentwood sections of Los Angeles serving a listing of 100 shoppers that features actors Alyson Hannigan and Ed Helms, ex-“CSI” showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and movie and TV productions. “[We have] the tax side, the insurance coverage side. And regardless that we don’t do the investments, we do oversee the funding portfolios and budgeting, so we’re each extremely well-rounded.”

Proprietor
L&L Enterprise Administration

Kenney’s shoppers embrace comedy touring firms, in addition to particular person performers like Awkwafina and Tiffany Haddish. She encourages shoppers to put money into themselves — maybe making a magnificence or wellness model — to allow them to personal their very own content material as a substitute of merely investing in or doing endorsements for different firms. Kenney says points with fraud and financial institution safety are of rising concern to her and her shoppers. “Cyber fraud is large proper now, and it feels prefer it’s been over the past two to a few years that it’s simply growing. It’s a must to ensure that these entertainers’ [identities] are protected but additionally be protected within the monetary aspect as properly.”

CEO, founder
LC Enterprise Administration

Cooper hung her personal enterprise administration shingle in 2024, after 15 years representing music business icons together with Stefan Gordy (Redfoo of LMFAO), Medium Construct, Børns and Molly Santana. She opened with fewer than 10 shoppers and three workers and now has 20 shoppers and 9 folks on employees. Constructive word-of-mouth from shoppers helps, however so does her spectacular observe document, like constructing and managing funds for Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus Tour, the highest-grossing solo rap tour so far. “I run a number of firms for shoppers, however now I additionally need to focus alone enterprise,” she says. “That’s been slightly little bit of a studying curve, however one.”

Matt Lichtenberg
Mark Friedman
John Rigney
Charles Clancy
Companions and enterprise managers
Mark Cattalini, Paul Ta
Enterprise managers
Degree 4 Enterprise Administration

In accordance with Degree 4’s Cattalini, they’re nonetheless unraveling the tax implications of President Trump’s Massive Lovely Invoice. However one factor’s for positive: with inflation, “any sort of tax financial savings or advantages that individuals had been anticipating are getting washed away due to the excessive price of residing, particularly in California or New York,” he says. Their roster is each starry and various, toplined by massive names together with Samuel L. Jackson, Danny McBride (Rigney), Quentin Tarantino (Friedman), Will Ferrell, Larry David, Joe Rogan (Lichtenberg), filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Clancy), author/producers Patrick Somerville and David Weil (Cattalini), Cheech Marin and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (Ta). Like everybody else, they’re assessing the longer term implications of AI, however proper now, they’re principally utilizing it for primary analysis on issues like find out how to register a automobile in Texas. “It’s nonetheless sort of like within the previous days with Google,” says Cattalini. “You’ve acquired to [search] three or 4 occasions to ensure it’s legit.”

Steve Gelon
Alex Smith
Co-managing companions
Justin Sroka
Van Lee
Companions
Mann Gelon Smith Sroka Lee

January noticed the promotion of Smith, Sroka and Lee on the 58-year-old L.A. sports activities and leisure firm, which boasts shoppers from the worlds of movie, TV and music, together with high-net-worth people. “It’s reflection of who we at the moment are and the place we’re going,” says Lee, who focuses on managing Hollywood estates, a complement to her roster of front-of-camera expertise. She advises her shoppers to have informative talks with their supposed beneficiaries as a vital a part of property planning to “pave a smoother pathway not just for the benefactor, but additionally enterprise managers and advisors.” She’s additionally involved about evolving applied sciences. “You should purchase your id for $.03 on the greenback, so there’s going to be extra prevalent points the place we have now to remain on high of defending shoppers, whether or not it’s locking down their credit score, scrubbing their public document or sheltering their id by way of a privateness belief or LLC.”

Founding associate
J. McIlwee & Associates

McIlwee says he began out on the pre-med observe at UCLA, however “wised up after my first chemistry class” and acquired a level in economics. That long- in the past resolution has clearly served him properly, as a result of as we speak his boutique agency boasts a roster that features Kevin Costner, Kristen Wiig, Maura Tierney, Valorie Curry, Kerry Condon, Jonathan Groff, Jane Lynch and director Matt Reeves and his sixth and Idaho manufacturing firm, in addition to rising stars Graham Campbell (“The Shards”), Belissa Escobedo (“Completely happy’s Place”), Shannon Gisela (“M.I.A.”) and Michael Provost (“9-1-1: Nashville”). McIlwee advises his shoppers to stay as unencumbered as potential. “With so many various issues coming at folks from all instructions, I see actual worth within the means to be nimble and react shortly,” he says.

Managing director, wealth administration advisor, sports activities & leisure, accredited wealth advisor
Merrill/Financial institution of America

Now splitting time between his Atlanta workplace and a brand new workplace in Beverly Hills, Baker — who’s been with Merrill for 20 years — sees parallels between the unpredictable nature of present enterprise careers and the funding world. In each arenas he says success comes from being ready and making the most of alternatives as they come up. Baker additionally pays his success ahead. “Yearly I award 25 faculty scholarships to seniors from my highschool alma mater in slightly bitty city known as Crossville, Ala. Thus far, I’ve awarded over 100 scholarships. It’s one thing that makes me bear in mind the place I got here from, and it retains me humble.”

Christine Choi
Enterprise administration associate
Daniel Marcus
Enterprise administration associate
Michael Meschures
Enterprise administration associate
Tony Smalls
Associate, head of leisure, sports activities & media
MGO

Because the chief of MGO’s leisure, sports activities and media apply, Smalls has been including new providers on high of enterprise administration, together with title, picture, likeness (NIL) consulting, tour accounting, royalty audits and catalog advisory. However a few of the Most worthy providers it affords its consumer roster — which is a mixture of movie, TV and music expertise and corporations, digital influencers and athletes, in addition to execs and high-net-worth households — are much less tangible. “Maneuvering the feelings, and when’s the fitting time to inform them what, and find out how to current it so it’s acquired how you plan it to be acquired are abilities that aren’t taught at school — that takes this time to develop,” he says. One in all issues they’re urging shoppers to do on this time of business contraction is diversify. “You possibly can’t simply be a movie and TV actor and never have a platform or a presence the place you would possibly be capable of earn cash on endorsements or possibly some content material creation,” says Meschures.

Michael Kaplan
Managing associate
Justine Ruffalo
Associate
Marlena Kaplan
Chief monetary officer
Miller Kaplan

Ruffalo works principally with musicians, producers and corporations within the music funding house, whereas Michael Kaplan helps shoppers from all areas of the leisure business generate monetary safety permitting them to pursue their artistic passions, and Marlena Kaplan (no relation to Michael) ensures the agency holds its personal as a big boutique agency. Whereas music catalog gross sales stay sturdy, shoppers are additionally investing in know-how and actual property. The CPAs at Miller Kaplan are devoted to defending their shoppers’ pursuits, be it promoting IP, downsizing for retirement or launching new companies. “There are a number of dangerous actors on the market, and we have now to guard our shoppers’ info and property,” Ruffalo says, including that fraud is so rampant that banks provide webinars about hackers. “Corporations actually need to put money into cybersecurity. ”

Mark Landesman
Scott Landesman
Paul Zukowsky
Eric Binder
Companions
Jessica Mooney
Chief working officer
ML Administration

When Mark Landesman began ML Administration in 1988 with a younger Eddie Murphy as a consumer, he couldn’t have foreseen it might change into a household enterprise. Zukowsky and Mooney have labored alongside him for the reason that early 2000s, and son Scott joined a couple of decade later. Earlier this yr, Binder rolled his apply into ML, and he now heads the L.A. workplace. Their ever-growing checklist of shoppers — principally from the comedy house — acknowledge the facility of that kinship. Whether or not advising enterprise investments or helping with wildfire remediation, rebuilding and insurance coverage claims, all the ML crew helps shoppers navigate the ups and downs of their skilled and private lives. AI is one thing Scott Landesman says most of their shoppers needn’t fear about. “Stay leisure isn’t one thing that AI would be capable of replicate very simply, versus TV and movie and something on screens. It’s going to be very tough for AI to duplicate stay sports activities, stay comedy, stay music.”

Founder, associate
Neuman + Associates, a division of NKSFB

With a stellar roster that features actors Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldaña, Cynthia Erivo, Jonah Hill and Sean Hayes, prolific writer-producer-showrunner Ryan Murphy and Ellen DeGeneres, Neuman’s 34-year-old agency has been capable of climate the present business contraction. Nonetheless, his shoppers are more and more branching out into client merchandise, from liquor to cosmetics. However many are nonetheless feeling the sting of the cap positioned on state and native tax (SALT) deductions from federal taxes again in 2017. The cap was elevated from $10,000 to $40,000 in 2025, “however that’s nonetheless nothing for those who make the sort of cash that my shoppers make,” says Neuman, including “as soon as deductions get taken away, they virtually by no means come again.”

Mickey Segal
Founding, managing associate
Michael Karlin
Founding associate
David Bolno
Steve Landau
Matt Segal
Diane Vaughn
Companions
NKSFB

The NKSFB sextet has greater than a century and a half of collective enterprise administration expertise. They’re led by Karlin and Segal, who based the agency in 1981 with 4 workers and three shoppers. Since being acquired by Focus Monetary Companions in 2018, the agency has wolfed up boutique retailers together with David Weise & Associates, Neuman + Associates, CRM Administration and Ross Bennet Smith. At present, their shoppers embrace a mixture of entertainers, producers, administrators, musicians, publishers, athletes, execs, digital influencers and high-net-worth people for whom they do every part from facilitating large music catalog offers to reviewing actual property transactions, non-public fairness investments, worldwide tour budgets and complicated tax and property planning. “The way in which that shoppers need to see their monetary info, you have got to have the ability to cater to what they need and what’s visually useful to them,” says Matt Segal, who has been training for 15 years. “And never one consumer is similar.”

Principal, managing associate
OTP Enterprise Administration

Muhammad introduced 20 years’ price of personal banking and wealth administration expertise to OTP in 2024. Sustaining strict consumer confidentiality, he helps award-winning artists, producers and creators attain private {and professional} targets with out sacrificing monetary safety. By guaranteeing shoppers perceive the basics of economic accountability, he frees them to deal with their artwork. Muhammad says the present administration’s ever-changing insurance policies and tariffs create uncertainty. “It makes it exhausting to plan massive strikes. If somebody needed to purchase a music catalog, or needed to put money into a tour or they needed to finance a brand new manufacturing, that uncertainty is an enormous, massive deal. Everybody has to take a wait-and-see second proper now.”

Mike Merriman
President, founder
Bryan Gott
Director of enterprise administration
Brandon Russell, Sunny Sanghera
Govt account managers
Megan Goodrich, Odette Moradians
Senior account managers
PARR/3

Merriman is a royalty hunter for his music enterprise shoppers: “We really observe down royalties and proactively chase them for his or her shoppers. It’s one other to factor to verify if each tune is on the assertion from the consumer’s discography, ensure that the [songwriting copyright] splits are proper and actually confirm this info.” Parr/3’s tenacity on this royalty-hunting entrance has resulted in a further $5 million in “discovered cash” for its music business shoppers. “That’s cash that might in any other case keep on the label or within the writer’s pocket,” he notes. Along with its different capabilities, the Los Angeles-based firm — now in its twelfth yr, with 110 shoppers and greater than $375 million in property beneath its administration — additionally gives providers for invoice cost, money move administration, tour planning, tax preparation and private monetary administration. “We’re right here to empower and educate shoppers, assist them perceive how their cash works and actually take possession of it,” provides Gott.

Tony Peyser
David Alexander
Founding companions
Mark Mingelgreen
Managing associate
Jack Ketover
Associate
Peyser & Alexander

The crew at Peyser & Alexander guides shoppers towards alternatives for monetary development, whereas steering them away from pointless dangers. The boutique agency works vertically and horizontally to make sure its consumer roster, highlighted by high authors and broadcast personalities, have entry to specialists in all disciplines from constructing their private funding portfolios and property tax planning to the switch of generational wealth, whereas staying conscious of their artistic wants. “Each few years one thing new pops up in all our lives — wildfires, market crashes, wars, crypto, AI, new funding themes — and a gradual method to overseeing all the eco-system of a consumer appears to ‘foot the invoice,’ so to talk,” Peyser says, including that just lately a rising variety of shoppers have expressed curiosity in funding alternatives with AI, blockchain and crypto, in addition to cybersecurity. To mitigate dangers inherent within the tech sector, the companions assist shoppers put money into these new areas whereas defending their investments and money move.

Joseph P. Callaghan
Mark Carter
Joseph Rust
Companions
Thomas F. Smith
Associate, leisure business chief
Prager Metis

Prager Metis’ Smith has an awesome reminder for shoppers who could really feel intimidated when discussing their funds: you’re within the driver’s seat. “Make adjustments when vital in the event you don’t like the way in which your enterprise is being carried out,” advises Smith, who works out of the New York Metropolis workplace alongside Callaghan. “It’s not your supervisor’s cash … it’s not your enterprise supervisor’s cash … it’s not your lawyer’s cash to spend. It’s your cash.”  The agency has 24 workplaces in places starting from London (Carter’s homebase) to the Cayman Islands, caring for the monetary wants of a roster that encompasses everybody from globally in style music stars to franchise TV producers. Whereas it’s well-equipped to deal with the massive stuff — providers embrace royalty audit and contract compliance, tour accounting and revenue participation and I.P. valuations — Smith says no monetary element must be too small for the Prager Metis crew. “You want to pay attention to how your cash’s being saved, invested, how your taxes are being paid, all of that stuff,” says Smith.

Companions, managing administrators
PS Enterprise Administration

The three members of this PS Enterprise Administration crew are unfold out throughout the U.S., with Moore in Nashville, Templeman in New Orleans and Gittleman Blom in its New York headquarters. The agency’s power is music. Moore’s shoppers embrace Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Benson Boone, whereas Templeman handles 21 Pilots, Chappell Roan, Massive Thief and Ethel Cain. The most important problem? The price of touring, which has “simply gotten to be sort of astronomical,” in keeping with Moore. “Pre-COVID, a very nice tour would web 30%-35% for the artists on the finish of the day, and now we’re extra like 15%-25%. The identical factor has occurred on the merch aspect, the place take house was once nearer to 30%, and now it’s extra like 15%-20%.” However, she provides, “There are such a lot of alternatives for model offers and sponsorships and social media posts which are monetized,” together with different issues like photograph books, bios and documentaries.

Managing Associate
PTD Enterprise Administration

DerParseghian alleviates shoppers’ monetary stress to allow them to deal with creativity and never fear about having to take a job they don’t need as a result of they want the cash. To try this, she’s change into an awesome listener. “The way in which we construct wealth round a consumer — or assist them develop their wealth — is by actually understanding what their desires and aspirations are,” explains DerParseghian, whose roster is populated by music, movie and TV heavyweights. “What we do actually, rather well is actually sit and take heed to the consumer so we’re capable of construct one thing round them that could be very particular to their imaginative and prescient, their objective and their aspiration — not just for them, however for his or her households, if they’ve rising households.”

Founding companions
Reback Lee & Co.

The Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys have all been accounted for — actually — by agency co-founder Reback, who first scored the monetary equal of the EGOT in 2021. These aren’t the one manufacturing accounting credentials Reback has earned: he’s additionally labored the SAG Awards and the FIFA Membership World Cup Halftime Present. “It’s a compacted timeline and issues must be completed day by day,” Reback notes. “We generally course of 500-600 checks a day between all exhibits.” Lee, with whom Reback started working in 1995, oversees the enterprise administration and tax aspect of the enterprise, though Reback helps when he can. “We don’t look to vary issues once they’re working,” Lee says. “We assist when it is sensible.” 

Jordan L. Josephs
Managing associate
Desiree Nunez
Associate
Royal Leisure Enterprise Administration (REBM)

Josephs opened REBM in spring 2024, serving shoppers all through leisure, sports activities and different industries. Specializing in music shoppers, their roster features a top-tier musician who’s producing a horror movie, appearing and internet hosting horror conventions. An fairness partnership stake Josephs suggested a consumer on was price $300 million when that firm offered for $1 billion. “Enterprise managers take a look at issues in a vacuum of {dollars} and cents, cash in, cash out and what a enterprise mannequin ought to appear to be, however there’s context we even have to take a look at,” he says. “Possibly a enterprise alternative the place we simply break even helps construct the consumer’s model or publicity to the place they’re promoting extra merch or promoting extra tickets. It’s exhausting to find out the return-on-investment, however there may be an inherent return on that funding.” 

Rick Schenkel
Associate, Southern California
Steve Levitt
Marta Botten
Companions, enterprise administration
Richey Could

In September 2025, Sobul, Primes & Schenkel merged with a number of different corporations beneath the Richey Could model, making a unified nationwide advisory and accounting platform that’s successfully “six corporations in six completely different cities and about 600 folks,” says Schenkel, who based his firm as USXA again within the Eighties. SPS shoppers had been already well-served by in-house expertise like Levitt, a taxation and enterprise planning knowledgeable with greater than 40 years of expertise who joined the agency in 1996, and IRS-enrolled agent Botten, a quarter-century-plus veteran who concentrates on strategic oversight concerning the funds of recording and touring musicians, movie and TV actors, administrators and excessive net-worth people. However Schenkel says the brand new association offers his roster versatile choices and added instruments, together with improved cybersecurity. “We now have the flexibility to work with these different teams throughout the nation,” he notes. “This implies having assets to make strategic acquisitions, different strategic strikes and a very completely different mindset the way in which financing is finished on the agency.”

Andrew Blackman
Wesley Childs
Robert E. Grubman
Marc D. Zand
Companions
Ron Myers
California managing associate
Schulman Lobel

With 4 out of 5 companions based mostly out of the Massive Apple and the pending launch of a Florida workplace, Schulman Lobel has been bolstering the providers they provide their artistic shoppers. “This yr, we introduced a state and native tax associate,” says Grubman. “We additionally introduced in a forensic analysis associate, which comes up within the enterprise administration world, for royalty auditing or valuations wanted for consumer investments.” Like his New York teammates, Sherman Oaks-based Myers can name on greater than three many years of enterprise administration and tax consulting expertise to service his shoppers, which embrace Brian Cox, actor Kate Flanagan, DJs the Martinez Brothers and the estates of Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon and William Goldman. Simply as essential are the mushy abilities it employs to protect its monied shoppers from issues just like the outstretched arms of family and friends. “We as enterprise managers don’t need to blow up their relationships, however we have now to guard them,” says Zand.

Companions
Shephard Tinglof + Associates

Shephard and Tinglof’s agency has been round for greater than 30 years, however they’re nonetheless encountering new financial wrinkles to iron out for his or her shoppers, which embrace Courteney Cox, Ben Stiller. Jon Favreau and director Michael Engler (“The Gilded Age”). As an example, with movie and TV productions more and more taking pictures outdoors the U.S., they’re coping with increasingly overseas tax points. “I’ve a toddler actor that labored a present that was in Australia final yr, and I needed to attempt to rent an Australian accountant to do all of the functions for getting the tax fee decreased, as a result of in the event you don’t do something, the speed is like 45%,” says Tinglof. “So it’s important to sort of work a take care of the federal government to get the tax withholding fee all the way down to one thing affordable, like 19%, roughly.”

Managing associate
Singer Burke

Earlier this yr, Burke guided his 53-year-old enterprise administration agency Singer Burke and its sister firm, funding advisor SB Capital Administration, by way of their acquisition by Mercer Advisors, a nationwide wealth administration platform with $86 billion in consumer property. Burke says, “It fulfills a multi-decade imaginative and prescient to convey complete monetary providers beneath one roof, which is how we imagine that we ship one of the best recommendation and outcomes for shoppers,” which embrace actors, composers, administrators, producers, showrunners, writers and management-production firms  which were concerned in tasks starting from “Bridgerton” to “The Household Man.” “That is going to permit us to increase past Southern California into different artistic hubs across the nation and internationally,”
he provides.

Steven Shapiro
Proprietor, founder
James Nagel
Enterprise administration associate
Summit Enterprise Administration

Summit has a roster of 500 shoppers, together with high-profile names similar to Taylor Sheridan, Zendaya, Tom Holland, “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, Vanessa Hudgens, Justin Hartley, Aaron Paul, Elliot Gould and director Gavin O’Connor (“The Accountant 2”), together with a wealth of below-the-line expertise. With the guild strikes, the continuing decline in native manufacturing, rising housing prices and the January fires, the latter of which broken or destroyed the houses of 18 shoppers, it’s been a troublesome few years for the Hollywood neighborhood, main a good quantity to depart California. “It’s not solely the price of shopping for a home and the charges of curiosity however, sadly, the crime component as properly,” says Shapiro. “Lots of people simply say it’s not the California that we moved to 50 years in the past.”

Founder, CEO
TKG Enterprise Administration

Beverly Hills-based Klein is a little bit of an anomaly: other than TKG, he’s additionally partnered with the band the Chainsmokers in Mantis Enterprise Capital. Nonetheless, he attracts the road between church and state in terms of a battle of curiosity: “I don’t permit my shoppers to put money into Mantis,” he says. With 150 shoppers amassed over the previous four-and-a-half years — together with music artists Charlie Puth, Jessie Murph, Shaboozey, Massive Sean, Logic and a number of other sports activities figures — Klein says the important thing to success is to take your occupation critically. “Be enthusiastic about what you do — however notice it’s a job. You could have an obligation and a accountability to assist your self and your loved ones when you’ve got one.”

Homeowners
Topline Enterprise Administration

McGill and Meyer have a broad mixture of shoppers, from TV host Karamo Brown to director Adam Wingard. Whereas McGill says some movie and TV shoppers are seeing fewer post-strike work alternatives resulting from scaled-back manufacturing, Meyer has seen comedians and different stage acts are doing properly, maybe due to a post-pandemic want for stay performances. One development they’ve seen is an L.A. exodus. “We’ve had a number of shoppers transfer out of the state,” McGill says. “They’re extra established abilities, so that they’re in a position transfer away from town and nonetheless get work. Excessive-level expertise, like a showrunner, can work from wherever as of late. We have now shoppers who’ve completed that. They’re happier now being near household and might come again to L.A. when wanted.”

Heather Kinder
Chief of employees
Peggy Stephens
Chief working officer
Bret Visitor
Enterprise supervisor
Tri Star Sports activities & Leisure Group

“We’re within the service business, and all of us have a service coronary heart,” states Kinder, a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader who was just lately promoted by her boss Lou Taylor to fairness associate (together with Stephens, chief deputy director Deedra Carroll, and new addition, chief development officer Lahteefah “Lah” Parramore). She’s a 14-year veteran of a apply that gives not solely accounting, monetary and asset safety providers, but additionally visa and immigration help and even plane and yacht administration to a combined clientele of actors, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs and executives. Flanked by detail-driven Stephens, a grasp of tax, actual property and asset methods, and Visitor, who focuses on model extension and catalog valuation and monetization, Kinder says her job permits her to see how the opposite half lives as she makes big-ticket purchases on their behalf. “I’ve purchased yachts, airplanes, multi-million-dollar homes,” she notes. “That’s enjoyable!”

CEO, founder
Tri Star Sports activities & Leisure Group

Taylor’s 33-year-old agency Tri Star just lately added a brand new location to enrich its workplaces in Nashville and West Hollywood, establishing an East Coast presence in Miami with the acquisition of Lahteefah “Lah” Parramore’s the LRW Group. The transfer additionally added one other assortment of entertainers, athletes and high-net-worth people to its already-rich roster, which incorporates recording artists Justine Skye, Shenseea and Tyler Hubbard, actors Taraji P. Henson, Jodie Turner-Smith and Charles Melton, fashions Taylor Hill and Adriana Lima and the Prince property. And as she grows her enterprise with daring, proactive strikes, so do her shoppers. “I’ve by no means seen the quantity of talent-owned ideation and brand-building that’s occurring,” says the New York native. “That’s actually the place worth sits.”

Founding associate
David Weise & Associates, a division of NKSFB

Some folks say the touring enterprise is slowing down, however Weise insists he hasn’t seen it together with his shoppers, which embrace Coldplay, the Weeknd, Usher, Lil Wayne and Carole King. Weise says he doesn’t have any artistic skills, however he excels at speaking with creatives, a expertise he feels is typically missed. And in the event that they don’t hear? “Then you could have to maneuver on,” he says. “You could have a fiduciary accountability to your shoppers to do what’s proper and to all the time communicate your thoughts. On the finish of the day, as a result of it’s the consumer’s resolution, you may solely information them to what you are able to do.”

Founder, CEO
Yorkshire Administration Group

Yorkshire is the uncommon enterprise supervisor who dreamed of getting into the occupation when he was a child, due to his father’s longtime friendship with legendary enterprise supervisor Bernie Gudvi. “I noticed my dad getting free live performance tickets and merch on the exhibits,” says Yorkshire. “And I bear in mind pondering, so in the event you’re a enterprise supervisor, you get free stuff. That’s the best factor on the planet.” At present, he providers a music-centric consumer checklist that’s hip-hop and pop-heavy, with a number of social media crossover on TikTok and different platforms. Having handled a number of “spirited personalities” through the years, he is aware of find out how to talk together with his shoppers. “They don’t want a three-hour soliloquy about how taxes work,” he says. “So long as they perceive that I perceive, folks begin to really feel snug, and that builds a number of belief. The character of the conversations adjustments.”