Brent Weinstein, who in almost 20 years at UTA launched and grew the company’s pioneering digital media enterprise, is becoming a member of rival CAA in a senior function overseeing a number of areas.

Weinstein will change into a member of CAA’s senior management crew. His first day on the company is Might 28. Weinstein will oversee enterprise areas together with digital media, podcasts, video games, expertise enterprise ventures and audio system. He additionally can be concerned in CAA’s M&A and funding actions, with a particular give attention to setting technique for the enterprise areas he oversees; moreover, he’ll co-manage CAA’s Intell information crew in partnership with the company’s expertise division.

After becoming a member of UTA in 2003, Weinstein constructed and led UTA’s digital expertise division — the primary of its sort at a serious company. He additionally oversaw its podcasting, ventures, dwell occasions and rising platforms companies, rising to change into associate in 2015. In 2018, UTA promoted him to be the company’s first chief innovation officer. Weinstein additionally co-managed UTA’s Insights and Information divisions; helped drive technique and operations for its international music and audio system companies; and performed a key function within the company’s M&A initiatives.

Throughout his tenure at UTA, Weinstein labored with Brian Robbins (at the moment head of Paramount Photos) to develop and launch youth-focused digital community AwesomenessTV and finally promote it to Viacom. Weinstein additionally created Key phrases Press, an influencer-focused publishing imprint in partnership with Simon & Schuster.

Most not too long ago, Weinstein was chief growth officer at Candle Media, the media roll-up enterprise headed by former Disney execs Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer. Weinstein led Candle Media’s company and enterprise growth efforts throughout divisions together with Reese Witherspoon’s Hiya Sunshine and Moonbug (whose properties embrace CoComelon). Weinstein holds a bachelor’s diploma from USC’s Marshall Faculty of Enterprise and a legislation diploma from the College of San Diego Faculty of Regulation.

“CAA is relentlessly centered on being probably the most deeply resourced, educated, and progressive advocate for its shoppers throughout all areas,” president Jim Burtson mentioned in an announcement. “Brent’s shared ardour for consumer service as an distinctive agent, and his super observe report as a artistic enterprise builder and senior chief, make him an excellent match for us as we proceed to execute on our formidable imaginative and prescient. His deep understanding of the quickly rising market of alternatives for expertise can be invaluable as we construct upon the continued success of the areas he’ll oversee.”

Weinstein commented, “CAA sits uniquely and powerfully on the intersection of leisure, sports activities, tradition and expertise, with a world fame for excellence and an unmatched understanding of the place audiences and customers are heading. It’s an honor to change into a part of CAA and its unimaginable tradition, and to work alongside a number of the most artistic and pioneering brokers and executives within the trade, as we collectively work to create new alternatives for the world’s main creators and corporations.”

The management of the divisions now being overseeing by Weinstein will stay in place. CAA’s podcast biz is led by Josh Lindgren; the digital media group is headed by David Freeman; the video games division is led by Derek Douglas; CAA Audio system is led by Peter Jacobs; and expertise enterprise ventures is led by Toby Borg. André Vargas, in CAA’s expertise division, leads the work of the corporate’s information crew and its in-house information and analytics platform, CAA Intell.