Ari Emanuel

Country: USA
Company: Business
Brother of Rahm and Ezekiel. In 1987, Emanuel moved to L.A. and began his career in the entertainment industry where he completed a mailroom training pro- gram at the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), in his first role within an agency. Pri- or to founding Endeavor, Emanuel was a partner at InterTalent and senior agent at ICM Partners (ICM). Emanuel has been described as a mogul and power player in Hollywood. Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, the co-CEO of WME, have both been named to Fortune's Businessperson of the Year list. In a May 2013 article on Emanuel, Fortune called him "one of the biggest guns in the consolidating entertain- ment business". Emanuel's relationships with his clients, coupled with his stature in the industry, has led to various homages and parodies over the years, including Bob Odenkirk'scharacter Stevie Grant on The Larry SandersShow, and Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven on theHBOtelevision show Entourage. In 201 1, Emanuel co-founded The Audience with Sean Parker and Oliver Luckett. Ariel Emanuel has served as a member of Live Nation Entertainment board of directors since 2007. Emanuel has in the past been active on the board of trustees of P.S. Arts, a Los Angeles, California-based non- profit organization that works to bring art education programs to Southern California schools. Hehas alsohelped the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, establish MOCAtv, a dedicated YouTube art channel. In 2012, he joined the museum's board.
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