Brandon Silverstein

While in high school in Tenafly, New Jersey, Silverstein created and promoted independent parties and events in New York City in addition to booking talent for Noah Tepperberg's clubs.[1][3] As a freshman at Indiana University, Silverstein co-founded a music festival with the first iterations taking place on a farm with Avicii and Tiesto headlining.[4][1] In his senior year, Silverstein dropped out of college to pursue his interest in music management. He returned to New York where a meeting with Jay Z and Jay Brown, the co-founder and CEO of Roc Nation, led him to found his own company: S10 Entertainment & Media. Roc Nation and S10 formed a partnership in 2018.[5][6]

Silverstein's first client was a member of Fifth Harmony, Normani, who signed with Silverstein to develop her solo career.[7] He signed a worldwide management deal with Anitta in 2019.[8][1] In 2020 he launched S10 Publishing, shortly thereafter announcing partnership deals with Ryan Tedder and Avex.[9][10] In 2022, Silverstein’s S10 Films division partnered with Simon Fuller to develop new projects across film, television, documentary and audio mediums.[11]

The executive has earned a number of industry awards throughout his career,  including the Forbes "30 Under 30"[12] in 2019, Variety’s “New Leaders”[13] in 2021, and Music Business Worldwide’s “Worlds Greatest Managers”[14] in 2022.  Billboard has honored the executive on multiple occasions, including “40 Under 40"[15] and "Executive of the Week"[6] in 2021, “Latin Power”[16] in 2022, and in 2023, he was awarded the magazine’s first-ever “Power Players’ Choice Award,”[17] part of their annual Power 100 ranking of the music industry's most powerful executives.

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