Greg Janese has joined UTA as Head of Corporate and Special Events. Janese will be based in Nashville and will be responsible for booking the agency’s roster in those categories and will also work closely with other departments throughout the agency.
Janese joins UTA from Paradigm, where he was employed for 12 years and headed the corporate and special event division. Prior to joining Paradigm, Janese was president of TBA Entertainment Corporation, a corporate event production company. While at TBA, Janese led the company’s expansion into the corporate communications business through strategic acquisitions and internal growth. He joined TBA after selling Avalon Entertainment Group, a company he co-founded, to the entertainment concern. Avalon Entertainment Group was a concert promotion and production company that specialized in producing entertainment marketing events and headline entertainment for the corporate market.
Jeremy Zimmer, chief executive officer, co-founder of UTA said, “Greg is a key executive who will help us continue to strengthen the bridge between our artists and corporate America. UTA is committed to fulfilling the promise of full service representation and Greg will be a tremendous asset in that regard.”
Janese said, “I’m honored to take this role at UTA, and to have the opportunity to work alongside Jeremy Zimmer and so many other talented executives at a company that is truly raising the bar within the creative community. Artists today are looking to their representatives for visionary, forward-thinking and specialized services across many areas of their work. UTA is leading the way, and that’s why I’m so excited to join this team and focus on the corporate event market.”
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