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TMWRK Management
TMWRK management is an artist management company with offices in New York City and Los Angeles. Its multi-genre roster includes clients such as Diplo, Major Lazer, Dillon Francis, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, and Dirty Projectors. In addition to artist management, TMWRK has a record label (TMWRK Records) and a division focused on film.

History
TMWRK was founded by Andrew McInnes and Kevin Kusatsu in 2011. The company was acquired in 2014 by SFX Entertainment (currently Livestyle), but two years later, TMWRK bought itself out for $3.6 million dollars prior to SFX Entertainment declaring bankruptcy in early 2016. Later in 2016, along with client Diplo, TMWRK purchased a minority stake in the Arizona United Soccer Club, Arizona's official professional soccer team. Together, Diplo and TMWRK hold a seat on the team's board of directors. Also in 2016, TMWRK helped launch Unison Fund, an investment fund created to help developing artists finance tours and produce albums and music videos.

In 2017, TMWRK helped launch the Goldie Awards 1st Annual DJ and Beat Battle, a competition based in Brooklyn, New York, which continues to attract competitors from around the world. TMWRK expanded in 2018 through its acquisition of the management company Yebo and corresponding artist roster, including Two Feet, Chrome Sparks, Melvv, and Charlie Brand. Most recently, in 2019, TMWRK launched a record label (TMWRK Records) and, as of June 2020, has released an Onyx Collective songbook and Molly Payton's debut EP.

Throughout its history, TMWRK founders, Andrew McInnes and Kevin Kusatsu, have been repeatedly recognized by Billboard, a prominent music industry news outlet. McInnes and Kusatsu were named Billboard's 2019 Dance Executives of the Year, were included on Billboard's 2017 and 2018 Power 100 list of music industry executives, and along with TMWRK executive VP's Renee Brodeur and Nick Palmacci, were included in the 2019 Billboard Dance Power Players list. Additionally, in 2018, TMWRK was cited by Billboard as one of five companies "leading dance music's global expansion."

TMWRK's clients have been recognized at the Grammy Award s on several occasions, including: Silk City for 2019 Best Dance Recording, Jack Ü for 2015 Best Dance Recording, and Ariel Rechtshaid for his contribution to Adele's album 25, which won Album of the Year in 2016. Beyond the Grammys, TMWRK client Diplo was named Dance Artist of the Year by Billboard in 2016, the song " Where Are Ü Now (with Justin Bieber)" by client Jack Ü was a top ten hit, and the song " Lean On (with MØ and DJ Snake)" by client Major Lazer became the fourth song to accumulate one billion streams on Spotify and reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100.

TV and Movies
TMWRK's venture into film began in 2015 when the company co-animated Story Time With Fat Jew, starring Josh Ostrovsky. In 2017, founder Kevin Kusatsu helped direct What Would Diplo Do?, a Viceland series written by and starring James Van Der Beek. That same year, TMWRK also worked on Give Me Future, a documentary detailing Major Lazer's historic 2016 concert in Cuba. In 2018, Kusatsu was executive director for the Funny or Die web series, Like and Subscribe, starring TMWRK client Dillion Francis.