Event class: company, founded, music, entertainment, group, formed, management, started, co-founded, agency

Events with high posterior probability

Laila Bagge Wahlgren	In 2007 Laila started two new companies together with Anders Bagge (songwriter & producer) and Andreas Carlsson (songwriter) : Meriola Media Group AB and Meriola Songs AB.
Wale (rapper)	Since 2009, Wale has been signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation for management along with other artists such as J. Cole, Mark Ronson, Melanie Fiona and Rihanna.
David Begelman	He left in 1960 to co-found the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA) with Freddie Fields.
Stephen Fry	In 2008, Fry formed SamFry Ltd, with long-term collaborator Andrew Sampson, to produce and fund new material, as well as manage his official website.
John Forbes (music producer)	In 1994 John worked with Reality Entertainment CEO, Warren Croyle, producing a rock band from Miami by the name of Farrcry.
Jean Lowrie-Chin	She launched her own company, in December 1978, naming it PRO Communications Ltd.
Brian Doyle (baseball)	He is currently working with Doyle com Baseball Camps, which he founded in 1978 along with his brothers Denny and Blake.
Dan Clancy (musician)	Dan founded the Collective Music Group in 2010 to manage the divisions of his growing enterprise, including Collective Records, Collective Studios, Collective Media, Collective Music Academy as well as the Collective Foundation.
Jenny Shipley	According to Companies Office records, Jack Chen, Jenny Shipley and another investor founded a business together in 2004 called New Zealand Pure & Natural.
Jim Newman (television producer)	Jim Newman co-founded Syndell Studio in Los Angeles in 1955, with Ben and Betty Bartosh, Walter Hopps and Craig Kauffman.
David Byrne	Byrne founded the world music record label Luaka Bop in 1990.
Teriy Keys	December 2009, he signed a joint venture deal incorporating the global entertainment company, R. O. A. D. Group.
Rain (entertainer)	In 2007, Rain left the management of JYP Entertainment and started his own company, J. Tune Entertainment but still retains collaborative relationship with Park Jin-young.
Karl Wolf	; Lone Wolf Management In 2012, Karl Wolf announced that he was managing four new artists, alongside his manager Pascal Malkoun, through his company Lone Wolf Management which is his artist management division.
Mick Jagger	After the band's acrimonious split with their second manager, Allen Klein, in 1971, Jagger took control of their business affairs after speaking with an up-and-coming front man, JB Silver, and has managed them ever since in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Rupert Löwenstein.
Warwick Davis	In addition to his acting career, in 1995 Davis co-founded, with fellow dwarf actor and father-in-law Peter Burroughs, the talent agency Willow Management, that specialises in representing actors under five feet tall.
Frankie Biggz	5 Kiss FM for a BNW interview, Frankie Biggz said : Rama Music LLC In the middle of 2007, at a BNW's concert, Frankie Biggz was pleasantly surprised to find there an old friend, Carlos Valderrama, owner of the prestigious house label ramamusic.
Mark Vanco	• In 2001 Vanco developed a character-based, interactive strategy for Universal Music's Farmclub, a progressive television/web music program launched by Interscope Records' Jimmy Iovine and produced by Glenn Kaino.
Chafie Fields	Fields partnered with Joel Segal, the longtime head of Worldwide Entertainment & Sports in 2005.
Benny Medina	Along with Lopez and then-head of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola, Medina launched Lopez's pop music career in 1999, after which he and Lopez worked intensively together building a dominant film, music, fragrance and clothing empire.
Feargal Sharkey	In October 2008, he became head of UK Music, an umbrella organisation representing the collective interests of the UK's commercial music industry.
Prema Yin	Late 2010, Prema Yin signed a management deal with reputable US artist management company TC Music, LLC.
Andrew W.K.	In late 2009, the Louise Harland Corporation (LHC) went into heated negotiations with Andrew's management and the owners of the first'' Andrew W. K. record label'', Skyscraper Music Maker, based in London, England.
John Grant (musician)	Formerly associated with the Denver - based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.
David O. Selznick filmography	In 1943 he formed David O. Selznick Productions, a company without outside backers.
Feargal Sharkey	Starting in the early 1990s Sharkey moved into the business side of the music industry, initially as A&R for Polydor Records, and then as managing director of EXP Ltd.
Jason van Wyk	In April 2012, Jason signed with new representation for his media related works.
Jack Richardson (record producer)	In 1958 he was working as an account executive for McCann-Erickson, a firm that produced a regular television program and in the mid 1960s Richardson and three others from this firm decided to form their own production company, Nimbus 9.
Yoon Eun-hye	In September 2008, Yoon Eun Hye set up her own independent management company, The House Company after her contract with Kraze Entertainment expired.
Fatgums	Fatgums' independent record label, Beatrock Music, was founded in 2009 in collaboration with the Long Beach based clothing company Beatrock.
Veljko Despot	In 1999, he created and runs since the Simbol Music, a consulting company that assists other artists and labels in being involved in the music business.
Joan Staley	She and her husband founded International Ventures Incorporated (1969) and continue to manage talent to this day.
Ben Manilla	In 2003, he formed the multi-platform production and consulting company Media Mechanics with broadcast veterans Mike Henry and Paul Marszalek.
Peter Watts (audio engineer)	In 2009, he formed M&W Pro Audio Ltd., in Swansea, U. K., in partnership with Greg Mackie, founder of noted pro audio products companies TAPCO and Mackie Designs.
Randy Hendricks	In 1971, he joined with his brother, Alan, to form Hendricks Sports Management.
Glenn Dubin	In 1987, Dubin was asked by fellow hedge fund manager and close friend Paul Tudor Jones to join him and Peter Borish in a venture philanthropy project Jones had conceived and started.
Marc Marot	His most recent success was on the documentary, TT3D : Closer to the Edge In 2008 Marot merged his management company with Dutch based Sports Entertainment Group (SEG).
Mr. Collipark	Crooms founded his record label Collipark Music in 1999.
Guy Oseary	In May 2004 Oseary partnered with Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon to become a principal in Untitled Entertainment, an entertainment management company with offices in Beverly Hills and New York.
MING	In 2006, MING opened his own label and music production company, Hood Famous Music (HFM), which he co-runs with Jumpshot, in New York City.
Byron Cook (Texas politician)	In 1985, Leland, Byron along with California businessman, John Rowe launched the since defunct Tradewest, which licensed and marketed coin-operated video game s, including Ikari Warriors.
Andry Rajoelina	In 1993, at the age of 19, Rajoelina established his first enterprise : a small event production company called Show Business.
Craig Logan	In 2010 Craig left Sony Music in to start his new venture, Logan Media Entertainment (LME) LME now have offices in both London and Los Angeles.
Hitomi Yaida	On July 28, she announced that she changed a talent agency : from Clear Sky Corporation to Yamaha Music Artist, and that she reopened her music activity.
Gary Crosby (bassist)	In 1996, Crosby and his partner, Janine Irons MBE, established The Dune Music Company Ltd, a commercial company comprising four divisions : artist management, record label, music publishing, and education.
Dale Dye	After his retirement in 1984 from the United States Marines, Dye founded Warriors, Inc., a California company that specializes in training actors for realistic military portrayals, for movies of the war genre.
Alan Melikdjanian	In 2009, Alan founded his own video production company, Amelik Entertainment, LLC, an abbreviation of what he has called his' unpronouncable' last name.
Howie Klein	In 1978, he and Knab, with Bruce Bridges, co-founded the San Francisco new wave record label, 415 Records.
Trevor Horn	In 1982, Horn founded the musical publishing company Perfect Songs together with his wife, Jill Sinclair.
Freddy Wexler	In February 2011, Wexler founded The Brain LLC, a cross-platform entertainment company.
Marshall Chess	In 1999 Chess founded the Czyz Records record label, with his cousin Kevin.
Chip Duncan	Duncan is president of the Duncan Group, Inc, a documentary and feature film production company established in 1984.
Jeff Hanson (music executive)	In December of 2012, Hanson signed two active rock artists Farewell 2 Fear and Blacklite District to the SMG label and JHMP management company, both of whom reached number one on Sirius / XM's'' Octane'' Channel.
Arnthor Birgisson	In 1997, the founders of Murlyn Music, Anders Bagge and Christian Wåhlberg, saw the potential in Arnthor and Bloodshy, and handpicked them for the newly formed production company.
Louis A. McCall, Sr.	In 1992, Linda Lou formed her own company, The Entertainment Qartel, Inc. (EQartel), specializing in music business administration and entertainment marketing and promotions.
Bernard Doherty	When Wendy Laister moved to New York in 1996 Doherty and long-term business partner, Claire Singers, bought Laister Dickson and renamed it LD Communications Ltd.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex	In 1996, Rhys-Jones launched her public relations agency, RJH Public Relations, which she ran with her business partner, Murray Harkin.
Dick Wingate	In November 2013, Wingate launched a new artist development label bhimusicgroup.
Scott Rockenfield	In 2003, Rockenfield founded com / RockenWraps, which supplies customized drum wraps to artists and companies such as ddrum, and Bucketdrums, which are 3.
Spencer Proffer	In 2002, Spencer designed and negotiated a joint venture between Fender Records and California based surf apparel company, Ocean Pacific, to produce an album and tour featuring emerging acts and prominent athlete-musicians.
Lyle Greenfield	He is also a partner in the newly formed Bangolia, Inc. (October, 2008), a company engaged in the production of music and sound for the gaming industry.
Marc Horowitz	In 2003, Horowitz and a longtime collaborator, Jon Brumit, reinvented themselves as the business team of Sliv & Dulet Enterprises and opened an office in downtown San Francisco (at New Langton Arts).
Will Blunderfield	In late 2010, Nettwerk Music Group CEO and yoga enthusiast Terry McBride, who had previously managed artists such as Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, and Sarah McLachlan, signed Blunderfield to the label's yoga-inspired Nutone Records alongside Donna De Lory, Wade Morissette and Krishna Das.
Alexis Texas	In 2009 she formed her own business, Alexis Texas Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Starlet Entertainment Group.
Brandie Knight	In 2003, Knight formed a production company, Ole Skool Productions, LLC.
John Truelove	John established his own production company, Truelove Limited, followed by his publishing entity, Truelove Music, in 1991.
Glenn Wheatley	He founded the artist agency TalentWorks in 1996, focusing on artist and sports management, music recording and publishing, tour promotion and event management.
I-Octane	In 2011, I-Octane announced he would be starting his own record label, Conquer The Globe Productions, which would serve to produce instrumentals for him and promote him as an artist.
Stevyn Colgan	In 1998 Colgan, James Murphy, Sarwat Chadda, Dan Schaffer, Jeremy Elford and Kelvin Cox attempted to launch a new independent British comics imprint called Bigger Betty.
Baron Davis	In 2012, Davis formed the gaming company 5 Balloons Interactive with Sean O’Brien, formerly of EA Sports, to produce games for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
Antonio Escobar	In 2004, Escobar established the production company and record label, Antipop, to maximize his music productivity within the advertising industry, generate soundtrack s for film and television, and produce music for more recording artists.
Nick Brimble	In 1970 Nick and other members of the TIE company formed Actors Circus, an independent company.
Charlie Farren	1995 saw the return of Farren to the music business when he founded an independent music management company to manage the career of hand-picked artists such as Jon Butcher.
John Lundberg	While working at London-based digital agency Head New Media in 1997 (and as part of Felix Velarde and Jason Holland's influential Head-Space Project) Lundberg created the circlemakers.
Mousse T.	In 1993, he founded, along with Rennalls, Peppermint Jam Records, a label specializing in uplifting house music and melodic acid jazz.
Vanessa-Mae	Vanessa-Mae was managed by her mother, who owns a private recording label and music agency, until 1999, when Vanessa-Mae fired her as her manager.
Allen Forrest	February 19, 2013 Forrest and his label partnered with Clear Channel Communications with their'' Artist Integration Program'' The new Integrated Marketing and Promotional Program Leverages Clear Channel's Multimedia Platforms To Support Music Projects for Established and Developing Artists.
Harvey Goldsmith	It was because of Goldsmith's expertise in staging charity events that his company Harvey Goldsmith Artiste Management productions was brought in as executive producers of the 1990 live performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall, from Berlin.
Mick Wall	In 1979, he left music journalism to become the partner in his own PR firm, Heavy Publicity, aged 20, where he oversaw press campaigns for artists such as Black Sabbath, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Ultravox, The Damned, Dire Straits and several others.
Derek Webb	Therefore, in May 2007, in response to the success of the free distribution of Mockingbird, Webb teamed up with music industry veterans Mark Nicholas, David McCollum, and Brannon McAllister to form com NoiseTrade.
Jerome Armstrong	He also signed on with Mark Warner's Forward Together PAC to develop their internet strategy, before Warner decided to not run for President in 2008.
Vybz Kartel	After splitting with Bounty Killer-led Alliance in 2006, Kartel founded the Portmore Empire, a group of dancehall DJ's and singers from his Portmore neighborhood that he signed to his newly founded Adidjahiem/Notnice Records.
Geri King	In 2007, Geri and her longtime production partner Kimo Kaulani formed the music production company Audio Blueprint, recording facility Studio 7 Recording, graphic design company Lotus Media Design and record labels Khepera Records, Sonic Flux Music and Endless Soul Music all of which are under their parent company 141 Entertainment, Inc.
Tonny Sorensen	In 2007 he partnered with Ken Goldstein, founder of marketing agency Six Shooter LA, and formerly Marketing Director of Von Dutch, to form Planet illogica, an online collaborative tool for artists.
Kris Straub	Starslip Crisis was part of the webcomics cooperation collective Blank Label Comics, until Straub split away from Blank Label to merge Starslip with his new collective, Halfpixel, in November 2007.
Kym Wilson	In 1995, together with then boyfriend Jeremy Sims, Wilson formed the theatrical production company'' Pork Chop Productions''.
Richard P. Rubinstein	In 1988, Rubinstein and Aaron Spelling merged Laurel Entertainment and Spelling's own production company, Aaron Spelling Productions as subsidiaries of a new public company, Spelling Entertainment Inc.
Jonathan Elias	He and his brother Scott Elias founded the music and advertising firm Elias Associates in 1980 ; it later became Elias Arts.
Rika Izumi	In May 2010, she moved from Sun Music Brain to Sun Music Productions, another division within the same agency.
Ameesha Patel	On 23 April 2011, Patel hosted an event launching her production company, Ameesha Patel Productions, in collaboration with her friend and business partner Kuunal Goomer.
Tera Patrick	In 2006, Patrick and her husband at that time, Evan Seinfeld, launched a talent agency representing models and actor/actresses.
Cheryl Bogart	In 2002, Bogart helped then-husband, Evan Bogart, form Casbah Artists Management in tribute to her deceased father-in-law and Casablanca Records founder, Neil Bogart.
Eric Swinderman	In 2006 Swinderman, along with producer and friend Mark Pengryn, formed the nonprofit organization com CINEMA Cleveland.
Chris Burnett	In December 2007, Chris Burnett, along with New York-based artists, Erica Lindsay and Sumi Tonooka, co-founded Artists Recording Collective - an internationally recognized brand that serves as a dynamic and multi-dimensional platform to present the works and services of a select roster of artists-producers and boutique labels.
Devo Springsteen	In 2010, Reservoir Media Management acquired 100 % of Springsteen's publishing assets which had formerly been administered by TVT Music Enterprises, LLC.
Allen R. Morris	Extreme In 1998, Morris and two colleagues broke away from Caribiner and formed Extreme Corporate Communications in Houston.
Sammo Hung	In all, 40 films were released by Bo Ho, several of which starred Hung : In 1983, Hung co-founded another production company, D&B Films Company Ltd ('' D&B'' being short for'' Duk-Bo''), with Dickson Poon and John Shum.
Peter Schwartz (futurist)	Schwartz founded the Global Business Network (GBN) in 1988 in his Berkeley basement with several close friends including Napier Collyns, Jay Ogilvy and Stewart Brand.
James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark	In 1991 he co-founded the Ministry of Sound, the London nightclub, which has since grown into a global music and entertainment business.
Eddie Amador	In 2011, Eddie Amador partnered up with Orlando Puerta and started Citrusonic Label Group, where he has several artists and projects in development including The Kissboyz, Graph Gonzales and Warren Nomi.