NEW YORK, USA // Award-winning creative executive & entrepreneur with a history of building celebrated careers, brands & ventures.

Co-manager & business partner of Gold-certified & Grammy-nominated artist Run the Jewels (EL-P & Killer Mike). Oversight includes recorded music, creative marketing, digital, visual media, e-com & apparel, touring, licensing & more. Creator & co-founder of Juice Runners, Inc & BaRTJ (https://bartj.club), purveyors of award-winning craft beer & fine spirits.

Co-founder of Portfolio Africa & Studio A.I. Clientele include the Cavemen, DAP the Contract, Songhoy Blues, Denise Chaila, Star of Africa.

His work has been the recipient of 1x Emmy, 1x Cannes Lion, 5x CLIO, & 10x A2IM Libera Music Awards, (including the only 3x Libera Marketing Genius recipient).

Founding Chairman of A2IM (www.A2IM.org)

Adjunct faculty at NYU’s Clive Davis School of Music.

Board member @ NYCxDesign & iVoted.org

Public Speaking Invitations include:

Harvard Law School, SXSW, Cannes Lions, SF Music Tech, NYU (Tisch; Clive Davis School of Music), Cardozo Law School, Brooklyn Law School, Drexel University, Ohio University, MIDEM, NY Times, American Bar Association., University of Michigan School of Music, Advanced Systems Group, NY:LON Conference, Upstream Fest, Grammys/NARAS, Berklee School of Music, RapCon.

Graduate of the University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science & the Arts