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UTA’s NY Head Julian Jacobs On How “Cross-Pollination” Makes East Coast “No Longer Just A Satellite Office”
Julian Jacobs, UTA's Head of New York as well as the co-head of UTA Marketing, reflected on his rise from the mailroom and why "cross-pollination" is the key to more growth.
The 37-year-old’s fluency with inter-borough transportation is noteworthy because he was born and raised in Los Angeles, crossing the country just eight months ago to take his current post as head of the company’s burgeoning New York operation. An hour-long conversation with Jacobs covered a range of topics, including the evolution of New York since UTA set up shop there in 2011; shepherding TV news talent in an election year; the state of MediaLink after the rancorous exit of founder Michael Kassan; and more. The combination of my own business and the Entertainment Marketing Group at the agency and the work that I was doing there, and having more and more clients based here, and New York started to be more of the center of gravity for me in a lot of ways, I also was watching what was happening with this office, which today is almost 400 executives and agents.
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