For the past decade, the headhunters at Creative Artist’s Agency (CAA) Executive Search division have been the networkers behind the scenes helping connect top power players in sports, entertainment, finance and music companies with the people who will become their most relied-upon deputies, board directors and executives.
Founded by CAA global managing partner Joe Becher in October 2016, the group has helped staff the C-suites and board rooms of Universal Music Group, Recognition and Pophouse, as well as leading live music and streaming companies, distributors and music technology start-ups.
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“It really came together because of the connectivity of CAA’s platform, the knowledge we have about entertainment in general, and the access that CAA has to clients and talent,” Becher tells Billboard in late April in CAA’s New York offices in the Chrysler Building. “We’ll probably do 100 searches [out of a total of 550] for music companies this year. It’s a big business for us.”
Andrew Mackereth, managing partner for music and entertainment, leads the music industry search team, and he says the job allows them to observe how music industry leaders think about capitalizing on the influx of institutional investor capital and how global investors choose companies and leaders to work with.
