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Company Overview

Nu Universal Entertainment Agency (NUE Agency) is the one-stop shop for all of your celebrity booking needs. NUE Agency’s business mantra is based on integrity, versatility, speed of delivery, and doing good business! Founded in 2003, NUE Agency prides itself on being a boutique-booking agency with connections to all the majors yet the spirit of an indie. NUE Agency and its principal representatives can deliver whoever you want, whenever you want.

In an ever-changing music industry, NUE Agency has crafted a plan to help record labels and artists sell more music, promote merchandise, generate significant income from touring worldwide and develop corporate partnerships. Armed with sophisticated concert orchestration, global touring and diverse corporate experience, NUE Agency can produce successful events for whatever client needs you may have including, but not limited to, concert production, artist booking, endorsements/sponsorships, management, feature film and television.

Executive Team
Jesse Kirshbaum, CEO/Talent Agent:

Jesse Kirshbaum is the founder and chief executive officer of Nu Universal Entertainment Agency (NUE A pronounced New Way), a boutique talent agency created in 2003. As a talent agent, Jesse has worked with a broad spectrum of artists crafting deals for Clipse & Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Fergie & The Black Eyed Peas, Busta Rhymes, Carmen Electra, Nelly, LL Cool J, Sting, The Pussycat Dolls, Jamiroquai, The All-American Rejects, Sean Paul amongst many others.

Trained in marketing and international business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jesse K. has, over the course of his career, lent his industry expertise to Billboard Music Group, Sony Music UK, Marvel Enterprises, Logic Records and Pyramid Entertainment Group. At age 23 Jesse was one of the youngest VP’s in US entertainment at American Talent Agency. In 2004, after founding NUE Agency in New York, Jesse moved to California to expand his horizons. He quickly grasped the changing landscape of the entertainment business and excitedly forged relationships in the television, new media, video game and mobile sectors.

Jesse is passionate about the creative possibilities of the digital entertainment revolution and has co-founded the blog digiLIFEstyle, where he serves as a conduit for what is happening in new media and digital lifestyle. Jesse is a proud member of the New York chapter of the Recording Academy and the newly minted National Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (NAMAS).

 

 

David Gordoni, Talent Agent:

Is one of the top independent talent agents in the game. After college, where he graduated from USC's prestigious music business program, he went to work at the major talent house, William Morris Agency. He soon began assisting in the booking of numerous international and domestic tours under such WMA agents as Brian Edelman, Cara Lewis, Tony Goldring and Marc Geiger.

In 2005, David joined the WMA Agent Trainee Program until 2007 when he left to help take NUE Agency to the next level. He is known as the curator of the “Show List,” distributed weekly to over 1,000 industry colleagues.

Email: David@NUEagency.com

 

 

Julian "J Class" Afriyie, Talent Agent:

J Class, as he is known in the industry, has a bright future in this business. Jay, an event planner, marketer and agent to the stars has been brokering deals for big acts for years now. While the Student Association entertainment director at the University of Buffalo, J Class began his talent booking career and since graduation has been setting up hot shows all over the world.

He specializes in college relations, international and urban booking. His passions include putting together successful shows, making and breaking future stars, and building Ghana into the entertainment capital of Africa.

Email: Julian@NUEagency.com

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